Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall December 1807

Contents

1. Heading
2. Court Baron
   1. Homage
      1. Sworn
   2. Property
   3. Defaulters
3. Court Leet
   1. Leet Jurors
      1. Sworn
   2. Defaulters
   3. Officers
4. Footnotes
5. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham Hall: The General Court (with the Leet) of The Right Honorable John Lord Wodehouse, Baron Wodehouse of Kimberly
Date	December 10th 1807
Steward	Samuel Heyhoe Le Neve Gilman, Gentleman, Steward
Location	In and for the said Manor
Page numbers in Court Roll	60 – 65

Court Baron

Homage

Sworn

John Jolly

John Reeve

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Jonathan Dey (deceased) William Ripper Coe & Francis Parke as executors sold the property		November 5th 1761 on the death of John Dey his father	George Browne Leake of Holt in trust for John Browne Esquire of Tacolnestone	John Mitchell	1) 5 acres & 1 rood of Copyhold land in 5 pieces in West Field in Deopham; 2) 1 acre of Copyhold land in West Field in Deopham between Jeremiah Wodehouse, East, lands now or late of George Dover, West; abutts on lands now or late of John Entwissell, North & South.		£20
December 5th 1806 as recorded at the Court of December 8th 1806: Samuel Pettingall of Deopham, farmer, & Sophia his wife surrendered out of court		April 16th 1794 on surrender of Robert Meadowes	George Browne Leake of Holt in trust for John Browne Esquire of Tacolnestone	Thomas Huggins	5½ acres of Copyhold land in 2 pieces in Deopham: 1) 3 acres between John Godfrey, North, Hawfield Lane, South, abutting Town Green, East; 2) 2½ acres between lands now or late of Robert Reynolds, North; Dean & Chapter of Canterbury, South, abutts Pye Lane, West		£10 10s
			George Browne Leake	Thomas Huggins	Certain lands & tenements held in free & common socage late Pettingall’s, sometime Meadowes’s, formerly Lane’s	Relief 3s 1d
			George Browne Leake	Thomas Huggins	Certain lands & tenements held in free & common socage late Pettingall’s, sometime Meadowes’s1	Relief 1s 5d
October 10th 1807 Jeremiah Russell declared that the loan advanced had been repaid in rull			Jonathan Dey
			Elizabeth Collison	Daniel Alexander the Younger	Certain lands & tenements held in free & common socage late Peter Stoughton’s2	Relief 2d

Defaulters

All tenants that had made default in their suit & service were amerced 9 pence.

Court Leet

Leet Jurors

Sworn

John Jolly John Dobbs Robert Dey Rowing Brasnett William Wright Robert Knights Taylor Fenix, junior

Richard Jolly Samuel Pettingall Isaac Easton John Reeve James Clarke Archibald Rowing William Wright, junior

Defaulters

Status	Amercement
Headboroughs	6d
Handboroughs	3d

Officers

Office	Person appointed
Constable	Garrett Oddin Taylor
Pindar	William Patrick

Footnotes

1. It has been noted in the margin that the Rev. James Stoughton & Thomas Church acknowledged tenure of this land at the Court of November 7^th 1815 ↩︎
2. It has been noted in the margin that Henry Collison acknowledged tenure of this land at the Court of July 14^th 1840 ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
22/8/25	Published – IMG_4733