Quarter Sessions Rolls (ERO Q/SR141/4)

28.4.1598 (Friday 28 April 1598)

document 20400753

Thos Brewer of Great Tey yeoman aged 90yr deposes that he has known the Great Bridge for seventy eight years and that it was then in decay and was repaired by the then prior of Earls Colne who then was called Chilton and that his father was commanded by the said prior's bailiff to carry some of the timber that went to the repair of the lodge and further that it was in decay in the time of Jn earl of Oxford father of the now earl who repaired it at his own charge and was then owner of the Priory and does not remember that any contribution or money was given or required by the said earl towards the repair of the said bridge