Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr24)

28.12.1676 (Saturday 28 December 1676)

document 35600246

admission of Jn Brewer whereas at a court here held 16.10.1633 Dorothy Brewer wife of Jn Brewer was admitted for the term of her natural life and after her decease to the aforesaid Jn Brewer her husband their heirs and assigns forever to one cottage with garden adjoining with appurtenances sometime Waytes adjoining the vicarage of Earls Colne now at this court it is shown by the homage that the aforesaid Dorothy Brewer after the last court died thus seised thereof and upon this the aforesaid Jn Brewer present here in court humbly sought from the lord admittance for himself to the premises as tenant to whom the lord by his steward granted and delivered seisin thereof by the rod to have and to hold the cottage with aforesaid garden with appurtenances to the aforesaid Jn Brewer his heirs and assigns forever from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the aforesaid manor by the rents services and customs thereunto belonging and by right accustomed and he gave to the lord for a fine etc
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