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

19.6.1570 (Monday 19 June 1570)

document 65700254

it is ordained decreed and established by the assent and consents of the whole homage that none of the lord's tenants shall take admit or suffer together two under tenants to dwell in one tenement and that none other in this leet shall have any under tenants which is not honest and of good conversation and no hedge breaker and further that every town dweller shall provide for his under tenants two cart loads of wood yearly in their yards on pain for every of them 6s8d and that it shall be lawful for the lord's bailiff for the time being to distrain for the pain aforesaid being forfeited