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

6.5.1594 (Monday 6 May 1594)

document 17401654

five that the said complainant authorized the said defendant Roger Harlakenden about .1.34Eliz1 as this defendant was then given to understand both by the said complainant and by the defendant Roger Harlakenden to sell the said manor of Colne Priory and all other lands tenements and hereditaments of the said complainant in Essex Cambridge and Suffolk that were late parcel of the possessions of the said late dissolved monastery or priory of Colne Priory and that then the reversion of the same premises was in her majesty and that the said defendant Roger and Jn Drawater were appointed solicitors by this examinant's direction to get the reversion of the premises by grant from her majesty by virtue of a grant made to sir Jn Norrys knight by her majesty as this examinant now remembreth