Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall January 1732/3

Contents

1. Comment
2. Heading
3. The Court Baron
   1. Homage
      1. Sworn
   2. Property
4. The Court Leet
   1. Capital Pledges
      1. Sworn
   2. Offices
5. The Source Document
6. Footnotes
7. Navigation

Comment

This was the last Court to be recorded in Latin.

Heading

Title	Deopham Hall: General Court with the Leet & petty session
Date	January 11th 1732 (Ecclesiastical Calendar)
Steward	John Amyas, Gentleman
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	28 – 30 (one page number for each double page)

The Court Baron

Homage

Sworn

William Poynton

James Stacey

Property

Person surrendering property	Previous Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
William Poynton made a conditional surrender in return for a mortgage of £50 50s			Margaret Eastwick of Hingham, spinster		All & singular the messuages, lands, tenements & hereditaments held by copy of Court Roll of this Manor
John Knights (deceased)	1st Proclamation: 1723 2nd Proclamation: 1724 3rd Proclamation 1725	February 11th 1685 on the surrender of Thomas Reynolds, gentleman	Mary, wife of Roger Cooper, gentleman		1) 6 acres in Deopham with a tenement built thereon; 2) 1½ acres in two parts in Deopham: 2.1) Dunnings in West Field of Deopham; 2.2) Grubbes half acre		£10 10s
Issamy [?] Andrews (deceased)	1st Proclamation: October 17th 1730 February 15th 1731	1716	John Andrews heir of Issamy Andrews		2 roods in 2 parts in Deopham abutting Tunn Green
John Andrews		This Court	Henry Masters of London		2 roods in 2 parts in Deopham abutting Tunn Green
September 29th 1732 William Rose surrendered out of Court1		February 15th 1731	William Lane of Hingham, millwright	John Monck, gentleman	A piece of Copyhold land in or near the Common Pasture of Deopham called The Low Common by a Water Mill previously of Richard Raven, by the water course South & West. In length, 60 feet and width 60 feet 2		7s 6d
			Muriel Stoughton – free tenant of this Manor	Thomas Jecks		4d

The Court Leet

Capital Pledges

Sworn

Robert Meek Archibald Rowing John Dey Charles Cullyer William Poynton Thomas Osborn Robert Gibbs

George Wright James Osborn William Vincent William Burnham Daniel Thurling John Curle

Offices

Office	Name
Constable	William Burnham

The Source Document

(Page 1)

All rights reserved by Norfolk Record Office who hold the original;
their reference is NRO MC 639/2 795X9

Footnotes

1. There are more details of this transaction, including a transcript of the Indenture, on the page concerning the Low Common Mills – see here.  ↩︎
2. A note in the margin recorded that Rose Lane was admitted to this property at the Court held on August 22^nd 1757 (see page 131 of the Court Roll). ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
15/7/25	Revised description of the Low Common Mill + link to Low Common Mills page
28/5/24	Published – IMG_20240516_123038