Earls Colne Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr78)

3.1.1637 (Tuesday 3 January 1637)

document 38502403

and afterwards in the same court and the court sitting came the said Robt Potter and surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of the said steward the said capital messuage with garden and curtilage adjoining sometime called Sonningwells and all that tenement adjoining called Tabors with appurtenances to the use and behoof of the said Robt Potter and Margt his wife for their lifetimes and to the longer liver and after their decease to the use of the certain heirs of the said Robt Potter forever to whom the same Robt and Margt the lord by the said steward granted and delivered seisin by the rod to have to themselves for their lifetimes and to the longer liver the remainder thereof in the said form to hold from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the customs of the said manor by the rents services and customs thereunto belonging and by right accustomed and they gave to the lord their fine and made fealty etc