Chancery Depositions (PRO C24/239/46 depositions: Edw earl of Oxford v Roger and Rich Harlakenden)

6.5.36Eliz1 (Monday 6 May 1594)

document 17401532

to the seventh interrogatory this deponent saith that the lands tenements and hereditaments lie within the parish of Earls Colne and Colne Engaine and certain rents parcel of the possessions of the late priory which lie in divers places in the counties of Suffolk and Essex which being challenged by the said defendant by force of the bargain and sale from the said earl were at the time of the said purchase of the yearly value of 50li or thereabouts besides certain portions of tithes lying in divers places in the said counties of Suffolk and Essex which he challengeth by his bargain being of the yearly value at the time of the said purchase of 7li and upwards and besides a tenement called Playstow in Halstead which the defendant as this deponent taketh it challengeth by the general words of the bargain and sale then being of the yearly value of 40s and besides certain lands and tenements which this deponent hath been informed were found out upon a survey made of other lands for the right honourable treasurer of England lying in Castle Hedingham Sible Hedingham and Fynchingfield or some of them which the said defendant likewise challengeth by the general words of the barg ain and sale as he taketh it