Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall 1796

Contents

1. Heading
2. Homage
3. Property
4. Defaulters
5. The Leet Bill
6. The Court Leet
   1. The Leet Jurors
   2. Offices
   3. Defaulters
7. Source Documents
   1. Minutes of the meeting
   2. The official Court record
8. Footnotes
9. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham Hall The General Court Baron (with the Leet)
Date	December 29th 1796
Steward	Capel Bringloe, Gentleman
Location
Page number in Court Roll	1-4 (numbering RH pages only)

Homage

John Rudd

Richard Jolly Junior

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Kenneth Clarke		March 30th 1774	Robert Knights	Himself	1) ½ acre of land in Westfield between the lands of Thomas Bubbing South; the late George Dover now of Joseph Payne North; late of Philip Corey now of John Corey East & West 2) 1 rood in Westfield between lands ate in tenure of George Brooke now of Joseph Payne North; late of John Wiscod now of John Corey South; abutts ½ acre aforesaid West.
Robert Knights			Peter Mason of Cranworth, Farmer, provided mortgage of £150 + lawful interest		All & every the Messuages, Lands, Tenements & Hereditaments whatsoever
Robert Knights			Lord of the Manor to the use and behoof of his last will & testament.	Himself	All & every the Messuages, Lands, Tenements & Hereditaments whatsoever
John Bousell			Lord of the Manor to the use and behoof of his last will & testament.	Himself	All & every the Messuages, Lands, Tenements & Hereditaments whatsoever
Thomas Grigson Payne of Hardingham, Esquire			William Lock of Reymerstone, Farmer		All & singular the Messuages, Lands, Tenements & Hereditaments whatsoever
Richard Jolly the elder (deceased)	1st Proclamation

Defaulters

The Default of Tenants and every of them are severally in Mercy three pence.

The Leet Bill

Head Borreroers [Headboroughs]	Mark	Hand Bourowers [Handboroughs]	Mark
John Bousel		Robert Childerhouse
Garrett Taylor	a	William
Stephen Taylor	a	Peter Tann
John Rudd	a	Thomas Roofe
Jonathan Dey	a	John Miller
Richard Jolly		John Brown
Richard Jolly Junior	a	Charles Allin [Allen?]
William Thurston		William Coaldhem [Coldham?]
John Jolly		Robert Knighs	a
Samuel Pettenggale [Pettingall?]	a	Robert Clarke junior
William Deade	a
Taylor Feanex
Aaron Lane	a
John Reeve
Robert Clark

The Court Leet

The Leet Jurors

The source documents (see below) give two versions of the Leet Jurors. This list is taken from the minutes of the Court.

Stephen Taylor	Robert Clarke
Robert Dey	Robert Knights
Richard Jolly
William Wright
William Dade
Garrett Taylor
John Rudd
William Flowers
Archibald Bale

Offices

Office	Name
Constable	Garrett Taylor

Defaulters

Status	Amercement1
Headboroughs2	6d a piece
Handboroughs3	3d a piece

Source Documents

Minutes of the meeting

The following document appears to have been written at the time of the Court:

All rights reserved by Norfolk Record Office who hold the original; their reference is NRO KIM 1/4/5

The official Court record

All rights reserved by Norfolk Record Office who hold the original; their reference is NRO MC 639/3 795X9

Footnotes

1. The amercement was the fine payable for failing to appear at the Court. ↩︎
2. The Headborough was responsible for policing a group of tenants (known as a tithing, made up of ten households) ↩︎
3. The Handborough was the head of the household, responsible to the headborough for the good behaviour of his family, children, dependents and servants. ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
30/4/24	Published