| fine 8li | whereas at a view with court here held on
saturday 14.6.37Eliz1
Edm Potter
was admitted tenant to himself and his heirs by the surrender of
Wm Garrard
to one messuage and a croft of land with a house now built on it and to one garden called
Burtons Barn or Burtons Garden
with ingress and egress by the gates of the manor leading viz from the highway to Colchester from the said barn by a croft called Bearcroft to carry and recarry by the said gates through the said croft of land and to a tenement with appurtenances called
Gentries
and also to three crofts of land containing 12a called
Bromecrofts
and to a croft of land containing 11a with a way leading to the field aforesaid to hunt and chase and to one meadow late parcel of
Bearcroft
containing 3a with appurtenances lying in Earls Colne aforesaid as shown by copy of court roll now the homage aforesaid present that after the last court viz
21.5.1597
the aforesaid
Edm Potter
surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of
Robt Rookes
junior instead of the bailiff in the presence of
Robt Rookes
senior and
Hen Bridge
two customary tenants of the manor witnessing according to the custom of the manor aforesaid two parcels or pieces of customary pasture called
Bromecrofts
containing by estimation 5a more or less lying next to a way leading from Earls Colne to Colne Park to the work and use of
Xoph Isaack
and his heirs on the condition following that if the aforesaid
Edm Potter
his heirs executors administrators or assigns well and truly pay the aforesaid
Xoph
his executors administrators or assigns the sum of 14li at the mansion house of the aforesaid
Robt Rookes
senior situate in Earls Colne aforesaid in or on the feast of st thos the apostle next
21.12.next
following the date of this surrender that then the surrender to be void and of no force now they present that after the last court the aforesaid
Edm Potter
surrendered into the hands of the lord by the hands of
Robt Rookes
junior in the presence of
Robt Rookes
senior and
Jn Sawen
two customary tenants of the manor witnessing according to the custom of the manor aforesaid one croft of land called
The Uppermost Bromefield
containing by estimation 7a more or less lying between the customary land of
Robt Partridge
parcel of his tenement called
Curds
on the west and land called Great Sedcupps against the east and to customary land of
Hen Abbott
to the south to the work and use of
Xoph Isaack
and his heirs on a condition that if the aforesaid
Edm Potter
his heirs executors and assigns pay or cause to be paid to
Xoph Isaack
his heirs executors or assigns the sum of 11li 17s8d at the mansion house of
Robt Rookes
in Earls Colne at or before
the feast of st barth the apostle 24.8.next
then this surrender to be void and of no effect which said
Xoph Isaack
present here in court is granted the premises by the surrender of the aforesaid
Edm Potter
to him and his heirs by the form and effect of the surrender aforesaid to hold of the lord by the rod at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor aforesaid by the rents services and customs before due and of right accustomed and he made the lord fine and fealty and is admitted thereof tenant
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