Earls Colne Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr91 checked with D/DPr74)

5.11.1563 (Friday 5 November 1563)

document 65401083

and that the lady Margery countess of Oxford cut down lopped and shrud ninety trees called bollings in certain lands of this manor called Bunners for fuel to be spent in her mansion house called Colne Priory and also felled five other trees called spirks in the said land called Bunners for her reparations and other necessaries about the said mansion house and that Wm Wade cut six cart loads of fuel in Bettingsland to be burnt in his mansion house and that Lewice Jegon felled four trees called spirks in Bettingsland for the reparation of his tenement therefore we must take counsel of the lord