Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall August 1853

Contents

1. Heading
2. Property
3. Details of the Knight Disentailing
4. Comments
5. Navigation

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Title	The Manor of Deopham Hall: Be it remembered
Date	August 27th 1853
Steward	Samuel Heyhoe Le Neve Gilman, Gentleman, Steward
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	31 – 43

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Garrett Oddin Taylor (deceased) instructed his executors to “enter full satisfaction and discharge … of the Conditional Surrender made and passed by Isaac Easton, later of Deopham”			Isaac Easton, late of Deopham
Robert Easton, sometimes spelt Eason, surrendered in return for a mortgage of £2,100 + interest at 4% p.a.			William D’Urban Blyth of Weasenham All Saints, Gentleman		All and singular the messuages, Lands, Tenements, Cottages and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Robert Easton holden of the said Manor by Copy of Court roll.
James Stoughton & Thomas Church as executors of John Browne late of Tacolnestone and trustees of George Browne Leake also known as George Browne Leak Knight and his son George Custance Leak Knight			William Robert Clarke freed and discharged from the Estate Tail of George Custance Leak Knight to take Effect after or in defeazance of such Testate Tail

Details of the Knight Disentailing

An Indenture made December 17^th 1847 between
1) George Custance Leak Knight of Wymondham, Gentleman;
2) George Browne Leak Knight of Framingham Earle, Esquire;
3) William Robert Clarke of Wymondham, Gentleman.

The Indenture quotes from the last will & testament dated April 20^th 1812 of John Browne late of Tacolnestone, Esquire (deceased).

There is a list of places in which John Browne owned lands in Suffolk and Norfolk (which includes Deopham), and of all the people from whom he had purchased. It also states that he owned a share in the advowson of Little Barningham in Norfolk.

John Browne died “in or about the month of June 1814”, and the will was proved December 23^rd 1815.
There is reference in a codicil to this will to a piece of land in Deopham which John Browne had agreed to purchase, but which transaction had not been completed before his death. The Indenture states that the executors (the Rev. James Stoughton, Rector of Sparham, and Thomas Church of Aslacton) had completed the transaction.
They also invested £450 in property in Wymondham, George Browne Leak Knight being under the age of 21.

On November 25^th 1817 “so many and such parts as were Copyhold of and in the said Messuage or Tenement and Hereditaments so purchased were duly surrendered to the Use of the said James Stoughton and Thomas Church … Upon and for such … Trusts, Intents and Purposes as were declared … in and by the said Will of the said John Browne of or concerning the Copyhold Hereditaments by the said Will devised unto the said James Stoughton and Thomas Church … Upon Trust for the said George Browne Leake Knight…”

The will included the following constraint on who could inherit the estate of John Browne:

Upon trust out of the Rents of the said Estates to pay the several Annuities therein mentioned all which are now determined and no longer payable and subject thereto Upon Trust for the said George Browne Leak Knight therein called by his then name of George Browne Leake and the Assigns of the said George Browne Leak Knight during his natural Life Subject to Impeachment of waste for cutting down Timber Trees for any purposes whatsoever and after the his decease Upon Trust for his first and other Sons successively according to their respective Seniorities of Age and the Heirs Male of their respective Bodies every elder of the same Sons and the Heirs Male of his Body to take before every younger of the same Sons and the Heirs Male of his Body and in default such Issue Upon such Trusts as are therein particularly declared and expressed.

The Indenture stated that “George Custance Leak Knight is desirous of barring his Estate Tail in Remainder in all the said Copyhold Hereditaments and premises devised, surrendered, allotted and awarded …”

Comments

1. This entry in the Court Roll is difficult to interpret. It quotes an Indenture from December 17^th 1847 which in turn quotes from the will of John Browne signed on April 20^th 1812 and proved on December 23^rd 1815. The distinction between the quotations and the base document is not always clear.
2. There was a dispute between the Graver Brownes of Morley (who argued that they were the inheritors of John Browne’s estate) and the executors referred to in the above Indenture, namely James Stoughton and Thomas Church (who argued that they were the trustees for George Browne Leak Knight.
3. Both the Graver Brownes and the Knights sought to disentail the Male line of inheritance restriction from John Browne’s will. The Graver Browne disentailing is recorded in the Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury of April 7th 1859, some six years after the date of this Court.
4. At the Court dated November 6^th 1861 another Indenture was presented dated July 6^th 1861 since the Indenture entered above was considered invalid.
5. This page will be updated when further details are identified.

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