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1655 or 1656: about this time he setled the piece of land (aforesayd), given to him by his uncle, upon his nephew Francis for life, the remaynder to his nephew's eldest son, Thomas Hobbes. He also not long after dischardged a mortgage (to my knowledge, to Richard Thorne, an attorney) of two hundred pounds, besides the interest thereof, with which his nephew Francis (a careles husband) had incumbred his estate.