Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall April 1866

Contents

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Title	The Manor of Deopham Hall Proceedings taken
Date	April 14^th 1866
Steward	John Odin Howard Taylor, Gentleman, Deputy Steward
Location	The Office of the said Deputy Steward in Norwich
Page numbers in Court Roll	111 – 136

Homage

Not a full court

Property

Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property
April 6^th 1866 as eldest son & heir of Taylor Phoenix (deceased)	Robert Phoenix of Deopham, Farmer, presented a Deed of Enfranchisement dated April 10^th 1866. Price of £56 4s 3d to be relieved of all Copyhold obligations	George Edward Brock	1) 3 roods & 32 perches – piece no 28 on the 1814 map; 2) 6 acres & 10 perches with a messuage & other buildings – piece no 29 on the 1814 map; together with all ways, watercourses, timber & other trees, mines, minerals, limestone, likme, marl, clay, brickearth, gravel, sand and other stone rights …
April 6^th 1866 as eldest son & heir of Taylor Phoenix (deceased)	Robert Phoenix of Deopham, Farmer, presented a Deed of Enfranchisement dated April 10^th 1866. Price of £9 7s 4d to be relieved of all Copyhold obligations	George Edward Brock	1 acre 1 rood & 37 perches – piece no 40 on the 1814 map;
February 8^th 1858 upon the surrender of George Browne Leak Knight	Rev. George Henry Turner previously of Deopham, now of Bayswater, Middlesex presented a Deed of Enfranchisement dated April 10^th 1866. Price of £46 10s 4d to be relieved of all Copyhold obligations	George Edward Brock	6 acres 2 roods & 24 perches – piece no 100 on the 1814 map;

Location of pieces on the 1814 Map

Piece no 28

Piece no 29

Piece no 40

Piece no 100

Deed of Enfranchisement

The following is the Deed of Enfranchisement imbedded in the Court Roll for April 14^th 1866 for land owned by the Rev. George Henry Turner. The Deeds for the other two persons named above are essentially the same, but with different names, values and acreages.
The text highlighted in yellow represents the key items for the release from Copyhold obligations.
The text highlighted in green is of interest to the history of the Manor of Deopham Hall indicating that this Manor was passed to Lord Henley as part of a marriage settlement.

This Indenture made the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty six
Between The Right Honorable Anthony Henley Lord Henley Baron Henley of Chadstock in the Peerage of Ireland of the first part;
The Right Honorable John Lord Wodehouse Baron Wodehouse of Kimberley in the Peerage of the United Kingdom of the second part; and
The Reverend George Henry Turner late of Deopham in the County of Norfolk and now of Bayswater in the County of Middlesex, Clerk, of the other part;
Whereas by an Indenture dated the fourteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty seven made between:-
– The said John Lord Wodehouse of the first part;
– Florence Fitz Gibbon, Spinster, of the second part;
– the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and the Right Honorable John, Earl of Clare, (since deceased) of the third part;
– The Honorable David Graham Drummond, commonly called Lord Ogilvy, and The Reverend Henry Hely Hutchinson Clerk of the fourth part; and
– The Honorable and Reverend Alfred Wodehouse, Clerk, and the Right Honorable Andrew Rutherford, Lord Advocate of Scotland, of the fifth part (being the Settlement made in contemplation of the marriage then intended and which was shortly afterwards duly solemnized between the said John Lord Wodehouse and Florence Fitz Gibbon);
the Manor of Deopham Hall in the County of Norfolk (amongst other Manors and hereditaments) was duly appointed and conveyed unto the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and John Earl of Clare and their heirs
– To the uses therein expressed until the solemnization of the said intended marriage and after the solemnization thereof;
– To the use of the said John Lord Wodehouse and his assigns during his life without impeachment of waste with divers remainders over as therein expressed;
And the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and John Earl of Clare and the survivor of them were and was thereby required at any time or times thereafter at the request and by the direction of the said John Lord Wodehouse during his life testified by some Deed or Writing to be sealed and delivered by him in the presence of and to be attested by two or more credible Witnesses to enfranchise any copyhold or customary messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments holden of the said Manor for such sum or sums of money and on such terms and conditions as to the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and John Earl of Clare or the survivor of them should seem reasonable.
And it was declared that for effectuating such enfranchisement it should be lawful for the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and John Earl of Clare and the survivor of them at such request and by such direction as aforesaid by any deed or deeds, instrument or instruments in writing sealed and delivered by them or him in the presence of and to be attested by two or more credible witnesses absolutely to revoke, determine and make void all and every or any of the uses, trusts, powers, provisions, agreements and declarations therinbefore limited, expressed and contained of and concerning the freehold and inheritance of the Copyhold or Customary hereditaments which should be so proposed to be enfranchised as aforesaid, and by the same or any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments in writing to limit, declare, direct or appoint any use or uses, trust or trusts, estate or estates of the said hereditaments and premises the use of which should be so revoked which should be thought necessary or expedient to limit, declare, direct or appoint in order to effectuate such enfranchisement as aforesaid and that upon payment of any moneys upon any such enfranchisement as aforesaid it should be lawful for the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and John Earl of Clare and the survivor of them to sign and give receipts for the money to be received by them or him on any such enfranchisement as aforesaid which should be sufficient discharges for such moneys;
And whereas the said John Earl of Clare died on the eighteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty one leaving the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley surviving him;
And whereas on the eighth day of February on thousand eight hundred and fifty eight out of Court before the Steward of the said Manor of Deopham Hall pursuant to the Copyhold Act, the said George Henry Turner was duly admitted tenant on the absolute Surrender of George Browne Leak Knight to the land and hereditaments hereinafter described and hereby enfranchised or intended so to be, To hold the same unto the said George Henry Turner and his heirs of the Lord of the said Manor of Deopham Hall at his Will and according to the custom of the said Manor.
And whereas the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley at the request and by the direction of the said John Lord Wodehouse testified by his execution hereof hath agreed with the said George Henry Turner for the enfranchisement of the said land and hereditaments hereinafter described with the appurtenances at the sum of Forty six pounds ten shillings and four pence.

Now this Indenture Witnesseth that in consideration of the said sum of Forty six pounds ten shillings and four pence sterling to the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley paid by the said George Henry Turner the receipt whereof the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley doth hereby acknowledge and therefrom doth acquit and discharge the said George Henry Turner, his heirs, executors and administrators He the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley at the request and by the direction of the said John Lord Wodehouse testified as aforesaid and by virtue of the power and authority in this behalf given and reserved to him by the said recited Indenture of Settlement and of all and every other powers and power enabling him and in exercise and execution thereof
Doth by this deed sealed and delivered by him in the presence of and attested by the two credible persons whose names are hereon endorsed as Witnesses to the sealing and delivery hereof by him absolutely revoke, determine and make void
All and every the uses, trusts, powers, provisions, agreements and declarations in and by the said recited Indenture of Settlement limited, expressed and contained of and concerning the freehold and inheritance of the copyhold or customary hereditaments hereinafter described and other the premises to which the said George Henry Turner was admitted tenant as aforesaid with their appurtenances and of and concerning the said Manor of Deopham Hall so far only as the same hereditaments and premises and the freehold and inheritance thereof are and is effected thereby and no further or otherwise;
And this Indenture further witnesseth that for the considerations aforesaid He the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley at the request and by the direction of the said John Lord Wodehouse testified as aforesaid
Doth limit, declare, direct and appoint that the said land and hereditaments hereinbefore and hereinafter described and other the premises to which the said George Henry Turner was admitted as aforesaid with their rights, members and appurtenances And the freehold reversion and inheritance yearly and other rents, issues and profits thereof Shall henceforth go, remain, continue and be To the use and for the intent and purposes and in manner hereinafter expressed;
And this Indenture further witnesseth that for the considerations aforesaid, He the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley (at the request and by the direction of the said John Lord Wodehouse testified as aforesaid) Doth grant, bargain, sell, aliene, release, enfranchise and confirm and the said John Lord Wodehouse, so far as he is interested or entitled, Doth grant, enfranchise and confirm unto the said George Henry Turner, his heirs and assigns:
All that piece of land lying in Deopham aforesaid being the fifth allotment of the Award of the Commissioners acting under the Deopham Inclosure Act made to the said George Browne Leak Knight by his then name of George Browne Leak and marked on the map annexed to the said Award number 100 containing Six acres two roods and twenty four perches bounded by land allotted to John Brown Esquire North and East, by the Morley Road South, and by land allotted to William Jolley in apart and by land allotted to the said John Browne in other part West,
Together with all ways, watercourses, timber and other trees, mines, minerals, limestone, lime, marl, clay brickearth, gravel, sand and other stone rights and privileges of common and commonage and all other rights and appurtenances including all the rights and easements mentioned or referred to in Section 48 of the Copyhold Act 1852¹ to the said land and hereditaments hereby enfranchised or intended so to be belonging or appertaining;
And the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, issues and profits thereof;
And all the seigniory² right, title, estate, interest, use, trust, claim and demand both at Law and in Equity of the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley and John Lord Wodehouse and each of them in to out of upon or in respect of the said land and hereditaments or any part thereof.
To have and to hold all and singular the land and hereditaments hereinbefore described and all other the hereditaments hereby appointed granted and enfranchised or intended so to be with their appurtenances unto and To the use of the said George Henry Turner, his heirs and assigns for ever freed and for ever discharged from all fines, heriots, rents, reliefs, fealty, suit of Court, amerciaments, forfeitures and other customary payments, duties and services whatsoever which according to the custom of the said Manor of Deopham Hall the said land and hereditaments or any part thereof are or is or have or hath been subject or liable to or charged with or which would otherwise be payable or be due or to be performed to the Lord or Lords of the said Manor for, or in respect of, the said hereditaments as Copyhold;
And for the considerations aforesaid the said John Lord Wodehouse doth hereby for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators covenant with the said George Henry Turner, his heirs and assigns That he the covenantor, his heirs or assigns or his or their Trustee or Trustees unless prevented by inevitable accident shall and will at all times hereafter upon every reasonable request and at the costs of the said George Henry Turner, his heirs and assigns produce in England unto the said George Henry Turner, his heirs and assigns or to his or their Attorney or Agent or before any Court of Law or Equity or as occasion shall require the herein before recited Indenture of Settlement for the support of the Title of the said George Henry Turner, his heirs or assigns to the said land and hereditaments hereby enfranchised or any part thereof ;
And will at the like request and costs furnish true and attested copies or abstracts of, or extracts from, the said Indenture and permit the same to be examined with the Originals by the said George Henry Turner, his heirs or assigns or any other person or persons appointed by him or them;
And the said Anthony Henley Lord Henley doth hereby for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators covenant with the said George Henry Turner, his heirs or assigns that he the covenantor hath not done any act to incumber the said land and hereditaments hereby enfranchised or intended so to be or the said Manor or Lordship in any manner howsoever.
In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written:
Henley
Wodehouse

Comments

The Court of Deopham Hall of November 5^th 1862 contains a very similar deed of enfranchisement.

Footnotes

Not all Deeds of Enfranchisement relinquished mineral and mining rights; it is significant that this Deed includes all rights. ↩︎
Seigniory – the power or authority of a feudal lord. ↩︎

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26/5/24	Published (ref IMG_20240516_104516)