Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr22)

21.10.1646 (Wednesday 21 October 1646)

document 34700218

whereas at a court here held 21.4.1636 Thos Leffingwell was admitted tenant of the lord for himself and his heirs to one tenement or cottage and garden with appurtenances called Prills as by a roll of the aforesaid court it appears now at this court it is shown by the homage that the aforesaid Thos Leffingwell after the last general court viz 27.9.1645 surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of Wm Adams instead of the bailiff and in the presence of Xoph Mathew and Edw Somerson two customary tenants of the aforesaid manor the same testifying according to the custom of the aforesaid manor the aforesaid tenement or cottage and garden with appurtenances to the use and behoof of Margt Gurlevance widow and her heirs who present in court humbly sought admittance to whom the lord by the aforesaid steward granted and delivered thereof seisin by the rod to have and to hold the aforesaid tenement or cottage and garden with appurtenances to the aforesaid Margt Gurlevance her heirs and assigns from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord etc and she gave to the lord for a fine and made fealty