Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr20)

11.6.1555 (Tuesday 11 June 1555)

document 53702269

to this court came Rich Ennowes and surrendered into the hands of the lord one tenement     and one croft of land with appurtenances late of Jn Brydge lying upon Collford Hill and a certain meadow lying illegible text a way leading from Earls Colne called Bredge Meadowe and also one aldercarr called Gosfen and three illegible text lying in Colne Engaine and White Colne called Cotecrofts sometime in the tenure of Wm illegible text and illegible text late premises of Robt Fookes and Cecily his wife and lying jointly between the king's highway leading from Collford Hill as far as Colne Engaine on one part and the lands of the lord of the manor of Sheriffs on the other part as by the metes and bounds etc and with this intention namely that the lord thus seised thereof should regrant the said tenement and other premises with appurtenances to the aforesaid Rich Ennowes and Ann his wife and the heirs of Rich himself and the lord being thus seised of the said premises by the said surrender at this same present court by his steward regranted out of his hands to the aforesaid Rich and Ann his wife the said tenement and other premises with appurtenances to hold to them and the heirs of Rich himself from the lord by the rod etc to whom by the steward the lord delivered thereof seisin to hold to them and the heirs of Rich from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor etc and they gave to the lord their fine as is shown in the margin
5s and made fealty to the lord