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

30.7.1540 (Friday 30 July 1540)

document 63400596

Gosses the Reve Xfine 8d to this court came Jn Sparrowe and Agnes his wife daughter and heir of Jn Ridnale the elder deceased and the said Agnes alone and secretly examined by the lord's steward surrendered into the lord's hands certain lands with the appurtenances called Goses the Reve as by the metes and bounds etc to the intent that the lord thereof so seised might regrant the said land with the appurtenances to the foresaid Jn Sparrowe and Agnes to hold to them and their assigns during the whole term of the lives of them and the longer liver of them to remain after their decease and the longer liver of them to Antho Sparrow son of the foresaid Jn and Agnes and his heirs and the lord by virtue of the surrender aforesaid in the the foresaid land so seised at this present court by the lord's steward regranted out of his hands the said land with the appurtenances to the foresaid Jn Sparrowe and Agnes his wife to hold to them and their assigns during the whole term of their lives and the longer liver of them of the lord by the rod to the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor to remain after their decease and the longer liver of them to the foresaid Antho Sparrowe and his heirs of the lord by the rod to the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor to which Jn and Agnes by the lord's steward there is seisin thereof delivered to hold to them and their assigns during the whole term of their lives and the longer liver of them of the lord by the rod and they give fine etc and made fealty