"And the said grantors do hereby for themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant, promise, and agree to and with the said grantee, her heirs, and assigns in the manner following, that is to say, that they the said grantors are now seised to themselves and their heirs of a good, sure, lawful, absolute and indefeasible estate in fee simple of and in the said messuage hereby granted or otherwise assured or intended so to be, and every part and parcel of the same, with the appurtenances, without any condition, trust, power of revocation or of limitation to use or uses or any other power, restraint, cause, matter or thing whatsoever to alter, change, charge, defeat, revoke, make void, abridge, lessen, incumber or determine the same estate or any part or parcel thereof."

A more modern form of this covenant is "the grantors are lawfully seised of the premises hereby conveyed."