whereas at a court here held 27.12.16=1 Walt Pease and Grace Pease daughter of the said Walt were admitted tenants of the lord viz the said Walt for his lifetime the remainder to the said Grace and her heirs by the surrender of Margt Pennyfather widow to one messuage or tenement called Garlands with appurtenances now at this court it was presented by the homage that the said Grace after the last general court viz 3.12.1661 surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of Phil Mole and in the presence of Wm Adams senior and Jn Izarson two customary tenants of the said manor the same testifying etc her certain reversion or remainder pertaining to the said messuage viz all that part of the said messuage now in the separate tenure and occupation of Sam Tyler and adjoining and abutting upon the rooms of the said messuage towards the north with the yard or the garden plot pertaining to the said part of the said messuage and with the use of the same lying between the yard or the garden plot of Magdalen Lea towards the west and the yard or the garden plot of the said Walt Pease towards the east and a parcel of free land of the said Jn Izarson towards the north and the kings highway leading from the church gate of Earls Colne towards the south and the reversion or remainder of the said Grace to the other part of the said messuage now in the tenure and occupation of Thos Luan with all that part of the yard last mentioned pertaining to the part of the said messuage separately from the corner post of the room of the said messuage directly by the east side of the well by the plum tree growing there as far as the ash tree growing in the fence of Sam Burton pertaining to the messuage called The Bell towards the east with free entrance and exit and re-entry to the well to draw water for necessary uses to the use and behoof of the said Walt Pease his heirs and assigns during the natural lifetime of the said Grace to whom the said Walt here present in court the lord by the said steward granted and delivered thereof seisin by the rod to have and to hold the said two parts of the said messuage and the said parts of the yard and the garden plots with the said rights to the said Walt his heirs and assigns for the lifetime of the said Grace from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the said manor by the rents services and customs thereunto belonging and by right accustomed and he gave to the lord his fine and afterwards in the same court and in open court the said Walt Pease by the rod surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of the said steward the said two parts of the said messuage and the said two parts of the yard or the said garden plats with appurtenances and all right estate and interest of his in the premises to the use and behoof of the said Walt for his lifetime and after his decease to the use and behoof of Frances now wife of the said Walt for her lifetime and after the decease of the said Walt and Frances then to the use and behoof of the heirs and assigns of the said Walt forever to whom the said Walt the lord by the said steward granted and delivered seisin thereof by the rod to have and to hold to himself and his heirs from the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the said manor by the rents services and customs thereunto belonging and by right accustomed but the admission of the said Frances was respited