three item whether do you know or have you credibly heard that at an assizes holden in the county of Essex in 38Eliz1 or thereabouts there was a trial then had in ejection firme between Roger Harlakenden esq then lord of the said manor of Earls Colne or his lessee or farmer and the said Robt Partridge in the first interrogatory named concerning the title of the said tenement and lands mentioned in the said interrogatory