Earls Colne Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr91 checked with D/DPr71)

27.5.1539 (Tuesday 27 May 1539)

document 63300247

Litmans X Bieston fine 4s it is found by the homage that Agnes Bieston widow out of the court and since the last court surrendered into the lord's hands by the hands of Jn Estaie one of the lord's tenants in the presence of Thos Harrison likewise one of the lord's tenants and other the same witnessing one messuage or cottage with a garden adjoining and the appurtenances called     sometime Litman's lying in Colne aforesaid as by the metes and bounds etc to the use and behoof of Geo Bieston and Agnes his wife and the heirs of the said Geo which Geo being present in the court came and craved himself and the said Agnes his wife to be admitted thereunto and because it is so found by the homage therefore they are admitted the lord's tenants to whom by the lord's steward there is seisin thereof delivered to hold to them and the heirs of the said Geo of the lord by the rod to the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor and they give fine and made fealty