Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr23)

4.11.1657 (Wednesday 4 November 1657)

document 35000512

surrender of Ann Day of Mallorie etc at this court it was presented by the homage that Ann Day widow a customary tenant of the said manor since the last court that is to say upon 28.10.1657 did surrender into the hands of the lord of the said manor by the hands of Geo Layer the younger instead of the bailiff and in the presence of Ralph Josselin and Giles Crowe two customary tenants of the said manor the same witnessing according to the custom of the said manor one croft of land with a garden enclosed called Mallorie upon which croft of land a messuage was lately erected and two other crofts of land lying between Mylls Fenn and the brook containing by estimation 5a more or less and two other crofts of land one whereof lieth next Sandhills containing by estimation 4a and the other croft late parcel of Mills Fenn lying between the said last mentioned croft and the highway leading to Much Tey to the only use an behoof of the said Ann Day during the term of her natural life and after her decease one moiety of all the said messuage and lands to the use of Ann the wife of Jn Crow one of the daughters of the said Ann and to the heirs of her body forever and for want of such issue to the use of Mary one other of the daughters of the said Ann and the heirs of her body forever and for want of such heirs to the right heirs of the said Ann the mother forever and the other moiety of the said messuage and lands to the use of the said Mary Day and the heir s of her body forever and for want of such issue to the use of the said Ann Crow and the heirs of her body forever and for want of such heirs to the right heirs of the said Ann the mother forever