Earls Colne Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr79)

20.10.1646 (Tuesday 20 October 1646)

document 38801809

Swinesty and furthermore at this court it is shown by the homage that Jas Burton who held for himself and his heirs one messuage divided into three households and in the separate tenures and occupations of the said Jas Burton Susan Springett widow and Wm Warde or their assigns on 24.1.1642 surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of Xoph Buers instead of the bailiff and in the presence of Jn Reade and Hen Cony two customary tenants of the said manor testifying the said messuage with appurtenances to the use and behoof of his last will and afterwards he made his will in writing on the said day and year and by the said will he gave and bequeathed one part of the said messuage viz all that part of the said messuage in which Jas then lived to Helen Burton his daughter now wife of Robt Davy and the heirs of the said Helen forever and another part of the said messuage viz all that part in which the said Susan Springett then lived containing a lower room and an upper room to Margery Burton his daughter and her heirs and the third part of the said messuage viz all that part in which Wm Warde then lived containing a lower room and an upper room to Sarah Burton his daughter and her heirs forever as is clearly shown by the said will and testament and afterwards and before this court he died seised thereof upon which came here into court the said Helen Davye and the said Margery Burton and humbly sought admittance to whom the lord by the said steward granted and delivered seisin by the rod to have and to hold all that part of the said messuage in which the aforesaid Jas Burton at the time of the aforesaid surrender lived to the said Helen and her heirs forever and all that part of the messuage containing a lower room and upper room in which Susan Springett widow lived to the said Margery and her heirs from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the said manor and they gave to the lord their separate fines and because the said Sarah did not come to seek admittance herself to the said part of the messuage bequeathed to her therefore proclamation was made and a precept to the bailiff to seize into the hands of the lord