| Copes
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to this court came
Wm Swattock
and surrendered into the lord's hands one tenement with a curtilage and the appurtenances sometime called
Copes
and lies between the messuage sometime
Steph Miller
of the one part and
Jn Wright's
garden of the other part one head thereof abutting upon the way toward Colchester as by the metes and bounds etc and also one parcel of land of the waste lying at Colfordhill upon which the same
Wm Swattock
of new hath builded a swinesty and contains in length 14ft and in breadth 12ft6i as by the metes and bounds etc to the intent that the lord thereof so seised might regrant the same cottage with the curtilage called
Copes
and the foresaid parcel of land to the foresaid
Wm Swattock
and
Joan
his wife to hold to them and their assigns during the term of their lives and the longer liver of them of the lord by the rod etc to remain after their decease and the longer liver of them to
Agnes Bauldwyn
singlewoman and her heirs on condition following viz that if the foresaid
Agnes Bauldwyn
her heirs or assigns pay or cause to be paid to the foresaid
Wm Swattock
and
Joan
his wife yearly during the whole term of their lives and the longer liver of them in the parish church of Earls Colne aforesaid 40s sterling at four term of the year namely at the feast of the nativity of st john baptist st michael the archangel the birth of our lord the annunciation of blessed marie the virgin by equal portions to be paid that then this present surrender and seisin thereof delivered shall remain and stand in all his strength and effect and if their be default in any payment of the payments aforesaid contrary to the form aforesaid that then this present surrender and seisin thereof delivered shall be void and of none effect and the lord by virtue of the surrender aforesaid in the foresaid cottage with the curtilage and the appurtenances so seised at this present court by his steward regranted out of his hands the said cottage with the curtilage and the appurtenances to the foresaid
Wm Swattock
and
Joan
his wife to hold to them and their assigns during the terms of their lives and the longer liver of them of the lord by the rod etc to remain after their decease and the longer liver of them to the foresaid
Agnes Baldwyne
and her assigns on condition above written to which
Wm Swattock
and
Joan
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 etc to remain after their decease and the longer liver of them to the foresaid
Agnes Baldwyn
and her heirs on condition above written and the foresaid
Wm
and
Joan
give fine etc and made fealty
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