| RH TH JC T Bird old Parkinson R Parker Jn Parker Jn Ward R Crow | 7.3.1607 made a lease by Thos Byrd and Xoph Parkinson churchwardens of Earls Colne and the chief inhabitants there to Edw Nuton of the town house for 26s8d per annum for twenty-one years at the feasts of st jn baptist and the nativity of our lord etc and for not payment to the churchwardens for the time being within twenty eight days a reentry and a covenant that Nuton shall at his own costs and charges repair and it |