Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury April 1752

Contents

1. Heading
2. Homage
3. Property
4. Fines & Reliefs from Samuel Gilman’s Account
5. Footnotes
6. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury: A General Court Baron
Date	April 14th 1752
Steward	Samuel Gilman, Gentleman, Steward
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	143 – 152

Homage

Richard Jolly

John Dey

James Cooper

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Stephen Stacey (deceased)	1st Proclamation				Copyhold tenant
John Stacey and Rev. William Grigson	1st Proclamation on conditional surrender Entered 1706
			John Rust		Freehold tenant of diverse freehold lands & tenements late of Joseph Reynolds	2d
			Thomas Cockley	Mary Cockley	Freehold tenant of diverse freehold lands & tenements late of Stephen Cockley	2s 10d
Elizabeth, wife of William Cooper (deceased)		August 11th 1713 as daughter & heir of Thomas Taylor	Taylor Cooper, son & heir of Elizabeth Cooper		1) 1½ acres in Deopham Field1; 2) ½ acre in Deopham Field		£2 2s
Taylor Cooper			The Lord of the Manor to the use & behoof of his last will & testament
Abigail Barsham (née Hatch) (deceased) wife of William Barsham	1st Proclamation: June 8th 1748	June 3rd 1722 as daughter & heir of Edward Hatch	Mary the wife of John Stephenson, sister & heir of Abigail	John Stephenson her husband	1 acre of Copyhold land in Deopham Westfield, the greater part inclosed between Thomas Taylor, South; land of divers men, North; land late of Edward Payne, East; William Barnham, West. 2		£1 1s
June 5th 1750: William Wade surrendered his land out of Court before Samuel Gilman, Steward of the Court		October 4th 1728 as son & heir of John Wade	Samuel Wilson of Hingham, Millwright		One Moiety of a house, Copyhold of this Manor, parcel of the tenement Brown’s – i.e. the west part Situated next to the lands of John Corey North; Deopham Stalland Common pasture South.3		17s 6d
John Cook had forfeited the land	No objections after three proclamations	November 13th 1671 on surrender of Mary Stimpson	Richard Jolley & Ann his wife		3 roods, late part of the Tenement Brown’s at Bulls Wood in Deopham4

Fines & Reliefs from Samuel Gilman’s Account

These are taken from the listing of Fines and Reliefs for the period 1742-1769.

Fine/Relief	Person	Value (£.s.d)
Fine	Taylor Cooper	2:2:0
Fine	Mary Stephenson	1:1:0
Fine	Samuel Wilson	0:17:6
Fine	Richard Jolly & Ann his Wife	0:10:0
Relief	John Rust	0:0:2
Relief	Thomas Ockley	0:2:10

Footnotes

1. A marginal note recorded that William Cooper was admitted to this land at the Court of August 4^th 1761. ↩︎
2. The marginal note recorded that John Buckle was admitted to this land at the Court of November 19^th 1798. ↩︎
3. It has been noted in the margin that Samuel Gilman was admitted to this land at the Court of August 19^th 1757. ↩︎
4. It has been noted in the margin that John Jolly was admitted on November 8^th 1769. ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
13/1/25	Data from Court Book – 20250108_113848
15/5/24	Published