Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr22)
17.2.1648
(Thursday 17 February 1648)
document 34700942
whereas at a court here held
Rich Ward
was admitted tenant of the lord for himself and his heirs to a croft sometime of
Jn Bridge's
lying upon Colneford Hill as is shown by a roll of the aforesaid court now at this court it is shown by the homage that
Rich Ward
before this court died and that the aforesaid
Rich Warde
and it appears to the homage that the aforesaid
Rich Warde
at a court here held
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surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of
Jn Reade
instead of the bailiff and in the presence of
Edw Cressener#
and
two customary tenants of the manor the same testifying the aforesaid croft of land with appurtenances to the use of
Jas Nicol
of Earls Colne yeoman and his heirs and assigns upon the condition that if the aforesaid
Rich Ward
his heirs executors or assigns should pay or cause to be paid to the aforesaid
Jas Nicol
or his assigns upon the
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at the dwelling house of the said
Jas
in the aforesaid Earls Colne 32li2s of legal money of England that then the aforesaid surrender should be void now at this court it is shown by the homage that the aforesaid
Rich Warde
did not pay the aforesaid
Jas Nicol
the aforesaid 32li2s nor any parcel thereof upon which came here into court the aforesaid
Jas Nicol
and humbly sought admittance to the premises to whom the lord by the agreement of the said
Rich Ward
by the aforesaid steward granted and delivered thereof seisin by the rod to have and to hold the aforesaid croft of land with appurtenances to the aforesaid
Jas Nicol
his heirs and assigns from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the aforesaid manor by the rents etc and the fine by the grace of the lord in this present court was pardoned