The Harpe & Conney in the Rowe in Cheap – purchased of Thomas Garrard Esq. The evidences of this purchase heere enseweth

The licence of Alienacion [1 June 1630]

Charles by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c, sends greetings to all whom this this present document shall reach. Know that we of our special grace and for thirty-three shillings and four pence paid to confirm with our power the letters patent of the Lord James, late King of England, have granted and given permission and as far as in us lies do by this present document grant and give permission for ourselves and our heirs and successors to our well-beloved Thomas Garrard, esquire, that he may give and grant and alienate all that messuage or land and shop pertaining to it formerly called by the name of the sign of the Harp and now called or known by the name of the Golden Plough, recently in the tenure of Richard Martin and now in the tenure of Thomas Middleton, knight, or his assigns, situated and being in Cheapside in the parish of St Peter’s West Cheap, London, and also all that single shop in the aforesaid West Cheap which has been called before now as the sign of the Coney, adjoining the entrance to the capital messuage, now in the occupation of John Williams, esquire, on the eastern side of the same entrance way, with all the ways, passages, easements, lights, profits, commodities, and hereditaments which pertain or in any way belong to the aforesaid or to any one of them, and the reversion or reversions, the remainder or remainders of each and all the aforesaid and of each part and parcel of them which are said to be held from us “in chief”, and may also avow them “per finem” or by recovery in our Court before our Justices of the Bench or in any other way that the same Thomas Garrard may wish to do, [this grant by Thomas Garrard to be to the named men] to our well-beloved William Cutt, William Rolfe, Edmund Rolfe, Francis Manninge, Richard Taylor, John Sherly, Robert Moore, Gilbert Harrison, John Wollaston, Thomas Smithes, & John Terry: