Hemmyng of London, gentlemen, of the other party, Witnesseth that the said Henry Walker, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and forty pounds of lawful money of England to him in hand before the ensealing hereof by the said William Shakespeare well and truly paid . . ., hath bargained and sold, and by these presents doth fully, clearly and absolutely bargain and sell unto the said William Shakespeare, William Johnson, John Jackson, and John Hemmyng, their heirs and assigns for ever all that dwelling-house or tenement, with the appurtenances, situate and being within the precinct, circuit, and compass of the late Black Friars, London, sometimes [i.e. formerly] in the tenure of James Gardyner, Esq., and since that in the tenure of John Fortescue, Gent., and now or late being in the tenure or occupation of one William Ireland, or of his assignee or assigns, abutting upon a street leading down to Puddle Wharf on the east part, right against the King’s Majesty’s Wardrobe; part of which said tenement is erected over a great gate leading to a capital messuage which sometime was in the tenure of William Blackwell, Esq., deceased, and since that in the tenure or occupation of the Right Honorable Henry, now Earl of Northumberland; and also all that plot of ground on the west side of the said tenement, which was lately enclosed with boards on two sides thereof by Anne Bacon, widow . . . which said dwelling-house or tenement, and other the premises above by these presents mentioned to be bargained and sold, the said Henry Walker late purchased and had to him, his heirs and assigns for ever, of Mathie Bacon, of Gray’s Inn in the county of Midd., gentleman, by indenture bearing date the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our
