Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury January 1881

Contents

1. Heading
2. Property
3. Locations of the above pieces on the 1814 Inclosures Map
   1. Piece No 154
   2. Piece No 155
   3. Piece No 157
4. Source Documentation
   1. Receipt for payments by Archibald Rowing & William Allen
   2. Account of Archibald Rowing & William Allen
5. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury
Date	January 15th 1881
Steward	William Thomas Bensly, Deputy Steward
Location	At the office of William Thomas Bensly, LL.D, Deputy Steward, in the City of Norwich
Page numbers in Court Roll	U63 183718: Not paginated U63 183717: 46-51

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
William Spruce (deceased)	1st: July 1880		Archibald Rowing of Wicklewood, Farmer, and William Allen of Deopham, Farmer, as devisees in trust under the will of William Spruce	Robert Clarke	Certain lands & tenements held in free & common socage, late of William Spruce, before of James Stoughton & Thomas Church, formerly Pettingalls		8d + 1d
William Spruce (deceased)	1st: July 1880		Sarah Ann Matthews daughter of William Spruce (deceased), wife of Hammond Matthews of Gressenhall, Farmer, by virtue of the will of William Spruce	Robert Clarke	11 acres, 2 roods & 39 perches, piece No 154 on the 1814 Inclosures Map
William Spruce (deceased)		October 21st 1857	Sarah Ann Matthews	Robert Clarke	1 acre, 2 roods & 27 perches, piece No 157 on the 1814 Inclosures Map
William Spruce (deceased)		October 21st 1857	Sarah Ann Matthews	Robert Clarke	3 roods & 6 perches, piece No 155 on the 1814 Inclosures Map
			Total of Sarah Ann Matthews		14 acres & 32 perches	£42
			Archibald Rowing of Wicklewood, Farmer, and William Allen of Deopham, Farmer, as devisees in trust under the will of William Spruce	Robert Clarke	Certain lands & tenements held in free & common socage, late of William Spruce before Matthew’s, before Leak’s and formerly Dey’s	4s 11½d + 5d + 8d + 4s 11½d	11s

Locations of the above pieces on the 1814 Inclosures Map

Piece No 154

Piece No 155

Piece No 157

This appears to have been wrongly assigned on the map to the Manor of Deopham Hall

All rights reserved by Norfolk Record Office who hold the original; their ref is NRO C/Sca 2/86

Source Documentation

Receipt for payments by Archibald Rowing & William Allen

With thanks to Sarah Raper for allowing sight of this document.

Account of Archibald Rowing & William Allen

The following loose scrap is held in the Court Book; the 9d and 11s clearly correspond to the figures above.

Reproduced courtesy of the Chapter of Canterbury; their ref DCC U63 183717

Navigation

Date	Change
4/2/25	Reviewed against Court Book – 20250108_150013
18/7/24	Sarah Raper document
9/5/24	Published – 20231012_121714