WAKES COLNE manor was held of that honor c. 1210, and in 1274 when it was said formerly to have been held of the honor of Boulogne. The over- lordship was not recorded thereafter. Walter was succeeded before 1227 by Alan of Crepping, who c. 1230 held land in Wakes Colne and Fordham of Michael of Fordham. Michael granted that estate to the Hospitallers, but there is no later evidence of the order's interest in Crepping or Wakes Colne. Alan's son Walter forfeited the manor in 1266, but in 1274 and 1282 Walter's son Hugh of Crepping was lord. Before 1219, Saher de Quency gave Colne to his younger son Robert. Robert died before 1264, and the manor passed with his younger daughter Hawise to Baldwin Wake, who was lord in 1274 and from whose family it was named WAKES COLNE. The mesne lordship descended from Saher to his son Roger, earl of Winchester (d. 1264), and then to Roger's eldest daughter and coheir, Margaret, wife of William de Ferrers earl of Derby, whose great-grandson, Robert Fitz Walter of Woodham Walter, held in 1328. Walter Fitz Walter, Lord Fitz Walter, was in dispute with the demesne lord in 1393. In 1307, Hugh de Crepping's son Walter granted Crepping to Henry and Margaret Bacon, but in 1324 Hugh son of Hugh Crepping conveyed the reversion to William and Elizabeth Royston. Hugh died in 1340, and in 1342 Robert Perepoint became lord. In 1356 Peter and Elizabeth Perepoint conveyed the reversion of the manor to John de Vere, earl of Oxford. The manor descended with the earldom of Oxford until the later 16th century. The founder granted the church of St. Andrew and lands in Earl's Colne, the churches of Dovercourt, Great Bentley, Belchamp Walter and Camps (Cambridgeshire), and various lands and tithes. The church of Camps, however, afterwards belonged to Abingdon, while the church of Great Bentley appears to have come back to the de Veres, for the prior and convent had licence in 1320 to acquire the advowson from the earl of Oxford and to appropriate it. The church of Edwardstone in Suffolk was granted to Abingdon by Hubert de Monte Caniso in 1115, Abbot Faritius placing two monks there to pray for his soul; but later Abbot Walchelin (1159-1164) transferred them to Colne, and Hugh de Monte Caniso, the son of Hubert, granted the church to the priory. Colne also owned the churches of White Colne and Messing in Essex and Waldingfield in Suffolk, and tithes in Halstead, Castle Hedingham, Sible Hedingham, Stansted, Maplestead, Beauchamp Roding and Aythorpe Roding in Essex, Aldham, Bures and Lavenham in Suffolk, and Wadenhoe in Northamptonshire. The churches of Wilbraham in Cambridgeshire and Lamarsh were granted to it, but the grants do not appear to have taken effect. The temporalities of the priory amounted in 1291 to £49 4s. 9d. yearly, of which £10 17s. 6d. came from White Colne, £10 12s. 7˝d. from Monk's Colne, sums of over £1 from Great Bentley, Halstead, Aythorpe Roding, Sudbury, Ashingdon, Aldham, Beauchamp William, Alphamstone, Great Tey and Sible Hedingham, and the remainder from nearly twenty other places. The 3 bells in the church c. 1548 were later 'exchanged' with those of Earls Colne.
The priory church was dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist in 1148 by Robert, bishop of London, who invoked a long and detailed curse on all who should rob it of its possessions, while indulgences of relaxation from penance were promised by successive bishops of London to persons who should visit it on the day of dedication.
Aubrey de Vere granted an estate of BERWICK, later one knight's fee, in White Colne to Hugh Bigod (d. 1177) in marriage with his daughter Gillian. White Colne overlordship descended in the de Vere family until 1401 or later. The mesne lordship descended from the Bigods to their successors as earls and dukes of Norfolk, being recorded in 1252, in 1307, and in 1433. Two ploughlands of that fee were given by Hamon le Enveyse in 1231 to his daughter Isabel and her husband Thomas of Ingoldisthorpe, from whom the estate was called INGOLDISTHORPES, INGLESTHORPES, or INSTEPS. Thomas died in 1252 holding half a knight's fee, with other lands in Colne which Hamon had bought, and was succeeded by his son Thomas. The estate descended in his family with Ingoldisthorpe (Norf.) to John Ingoldisthorpe (d. 1283) and his son Thomas, to another Thomas Ingoldisthorpe (d. 1327), and to that Thomas's son John. John died in 1336 and was succeeded by his son Thomas who held the White Colne estate in 1353. William Ingoldisthorpe died in 1363 and was succeeded by his infant son John, probably the John who held in White Colne c. 1380 and in 1401. Another John Ingoldisthorpe held in 1441. Cecily Tew made a settlement of Inglesthorpes manor in 1484, and in 1488 her son Robert Tew conveyed the reversion to Thomas Jermyn. The manor later seems to have passed to Colne priory, and at the Dissolution to the earl of Oxford. Disputes arose after a time between Colne and Abingdon, because the abbot and convent used to recall learned monks from Colne to the abbey at their pleasure and send ignorant ones of their own in their stead, and lay the charges of their journey on the priory although the abbey had lands assigned to this purpose. But disputes on this and other points still continued until an agreement was come to in 1311 by the mediation of the earl of Oxford. On the vacancy of the priory the convent might elect one of their fellow monks, to be named and sent to the abbot and the patron, to be presented if fit to the bishop. The right of visiting the priory and receiving procurations for the same was reserved to the abbot, and the prior renounced all claim to the church of Kensington and all interference in the election of the abbot. This agreement was confirmed by the king on 7 September, 1321. There was a park by 1325, presumably north and west of the manor house where three fields were still called Park in 1838. In 1398, CREPPING overlordship descended with the honor of Clare to Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford (d. 1314). Roger Mortimer, earl of March, was overlord at his death in 1398, and the overlordship was last recorded in 1426.