case sir John brett against cumberland Hilary term James roll a action of  covenant will lie for a breach by a patentee of the grow although he do not  sign or seal any counterpart for his acceptance of the deed shall bind he as  strong as if it have be a indenture ante sand Mod Bulst Bac ab a assignee of a  reversion who have accept rend from the assignee of the term may maintain  covenant against the executor of the lessee or the assignee of the term for a  breach of covenant run with the land commit after the assignment of the  reversion and the term but he can have only one satisfaction covenant the case  be sir John Brett and Margaret his wife as assignee of king Henry the eight  and queen Elizabeth bring a writ of covenant against John Cunlerland execute  or of William croak throw Cumberland for that queen Elizabeth by her letter  patent date the twentysixth year of her reign let to the say William  Cumberland one watermill in Southill in the county of Bedford for thirtyone  year wherein be these word et predict William executor et appointed Himself  predict molendinum et house et builder ind sufficie reparabu a and shall leave  they sufficient repair and millstone therein and show that king James in the  that year of his reign grant to the plaintiff the reversion and that William  Cumberland die possess and make the defendant his executor and that after the  grant to the plaintiff neither the say William Cumberland in his lifetime nor  the defendant after his decease have sufficient repair the say mill but suffer  they to go to decay in the timber and show in certainty how and that he do not  leave any millstone at the end of the term for which c the defendant plead  that William Cumberland assign over all his estate Elizabeth to William fish  who enter and pay the rend to the queen and afterward in the first year of  James the first pay the rend to the king and since the reversion be grant to  the plaintiff pay the rend to the plaintiff which he accept et hoc c whereupon  the plaintiff demurrer this case be oftentimes argue at the bar but now by Geo  c none shall act as a attorney c in any court of record unless he be admit and  enrol a vide ante as to what word amount to a covenant see also   light b  croak James er p the first question be whether these word in the patent to  which the queen seal only be affix shall enure as a covenant to bind the  lessee and his assign and it be resolve that it shall for the lessee take  thereby because it be matter of record although in show the be the word of the  lessor only yet he accept thereof and enjoy it it be as well his covenant in  fact and shall bind he be strong as if it have be a covenant by indenture vide  Edward pl Edward pl Edward pl easter term James Lord ever v Strickland the  second question and the more difficult be whether the assignee of a reversion  who have accept the rend from the assignee of the term and so take he for his  tenant shall charge the executor of the lessee for this breach of covenant  make after the assignment of the term and after the assignment of the  reversion?This point depend long in question and after much argument be at  length resolve that he be Chargeable with the breach of this covenant and that  the assignee of the reversion shall have the action by the statute of Henry c  for it be a covenant en fail and by the express word run along with the land  and notwithstanding the assignment the covenantor and his executor be always  Chargeable so that neither by the assignment over of his estate nor by any act  he can do can he discharge himself or his executor who be Chargeable by the  act of their testator have asset as long as the lessor continue the reversion  in he for the executor be not Chargeable by reason of the privity of contract  but by reason of the covenant itself and by the express word of the croak  throw statute of Henry c such remedy as the lessor may have have against the  lessee or his executor such remedy the assignee shall have against they it be  a covenant en fait which run with the land but otherwise it be of a covenant  in land which be only create by the law or of a rend which be create by reason  of the contract and be by reason of the profit of the land wherein none be  long Chargeable with they than the privity of the estate continue with they  and this covenant may charge the assignee who have the estate and the lessee  and his executor who make the covenant all atone and the selfsame time but  execution shall only be against one of they for if he sue a action against the  one and after against the other as he well may do if he take several execution  he who be last take in execution shall have a hearing complaint wherefore it  be adjudge for the plaintiff vide tempt Edward covenant