Court of the Manor of Deopham Hall October 1698

Contents

1. Heading
2. Court Baron
   1. Homage
      1. Sworn
   2. Property
   3. Defaulters
3. Court Leet
   1. Essoin
   2. Capital Pledges
      1. Sworn
   3. Defaulters
      1. Capital Pledges
      2. Decennarii
   4. Officer
4. Footnotes
5. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham Hall: General Court with the Leet
Date	October 17th 1698
Steward	John Buxton, deputy steward of Philip Wodehouse, gentleman
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	–

Court Baron

Homage

Sworn

Robert Draper Stephen Paine

John Cory

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
John Bubbin surrendered out of Court on May 21st 1698 by the hand of John Cory in the presence of William Cullyer & Robert Draper, copyhold tenants of this Manor		October 20th 1669 on the death of Thomas Bubbin	John Nobbs of Wymondham, Carpenter	Himself	½ acre of copyhold land in Deopham between copyhold land lately of Philip Cory, now John Cory, North, land lately of John Skipper, now of Stephen Paine, East, a tenement of Francis Cory, now John Cory, West.		5s 6d
John Nobbs			John Nobbs & Susanne his wife	Themselves	½ acre of copyhold land in Deopham between copyhold land lately of Philip Cory, now John Cory, North, land lately of John Skipper, now of Stephen Paine, East, a tenement of Francis Cory, now John Cory, West.		2s 6d
John Nobbs			Lord of the Manor to the use of his last will & testament
March 1st 1696: Stephen Paine surrendered out of Court by the hand of John Cory, in the presence of William Cullyer & Robert Draper		October 29th 1684 on the surrender of Henry Cooper & Joanne his wife	Joseph Paine	Himself	A messuage called Newmans with a croft of 2½ acres of copyhold land in Deopham in a place called Nether row Streete1		10s
Joseph Paine			Lord of the Manor to the use of his last will & testament
John Whitefoot			William Grigson2		Divers freehold lands & tenements of this Manor
Robert Notley			Robert Godfrey		Divers freehold lands & tenements of this Manor

Defaulters

Those tenants who were in default were fined 12d each.

Henry Norton Joseph Gay John Cooper John Knights Thomas Took

Richard Raven Stephen Baldwyn Mary Raven, widow Susan Phillips

Court Leet

Essoin

Name	Reason
Francis Thilthorpe	Essoin de capitales plegii

Capital Pledges

Sworn

Robert Draper Thomas Howes John Harman William Roberts Daniel Wright Philip Hales

Joseph Paine James Skipper William Ryall Robert Blomfield John Newman Francis Borman

Defaulters

Capital Pledges

The following were fined 12d each:

Francis Taylor Robert Pitts Charles Smith Simon Beale

John Jolley Joseph Taylor Thomas Claxton

Decennarii

The following were fined 6d each

Samuel Luibon Henry Whettel George Creake

John Taylor Thomas Norman

Officer

Name	Office
Robert Smith	Constable

Footnotes

1. This land passed to Joseph Payne’s eldest son (also called Joseph Payne) at the Court of November 9^th 1704. ↩︎
2. William Grigson purchased the property portfolio of John Whitefoot, including the Lordship of the Manor of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells, in 1697 – see here. ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
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