Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury October 1909

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Title	The Manor of Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury: General Court Baron of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Lords of the said Manor
Date	October 7^th 1909
Steward	Robert Clarke, Deputy Steward
Location	In and for the said Manor
Page numbers in Court Roll	125 – 138

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Robert Rushbrooke Mason of East Dereham, Schoolmaster, surrendered in return for a mortgage of £400 & £100 + interest @ 4% p.a.			Conditional surrender to the trustees of The Loyal Samuel Cubitt Cooke Lodge Number 5981 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellowes Manchester Unity
			The Right Honorable John Earl of Kimberley	Charles John Taylor	1) Certain lands & tenements held in free tenure formerly Donne’s 2) Certain other lands & tenements held in free tenure formerly Barton’s	1s 11d + 2d
James Shickle			John Bartle Pomeroy of Wymondham, Gentleman.		Piece no 92 on the Deopham 1814 Inclosures Map containing 1 acre, 1 rood & 35 perches		£2 4s
		September 3^rd 1901 by virtue of the will of Rebecca Howard (deceased)	James Oakley of Fleet in the County of Southampton, General Store Proprietor – Deed of Enfranchisement was enrolled, in return for a payment to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of £99 (see below).		1) Piece no 139 on the Deopham 1814 Inclosures Map containing 14 acres 1 rood & 9 perches (but according to the Ordnance Survey 14 acres & 28 perches) with a Messuage & other buildings standing thereon. 2) Piece no 141 on the Deopham 1814 Inclosures Map containing 2 acres & 3 roods.
		June 29^th1872 under the will of Ezekiel Lock after the death of Martha Ann Lock	Thomas Frederick Ringer – Deed of Enfranchisement was enrolled, in return for a payment to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of £45 (see below).		1) Piece no 163 on the Deopham 1814 Inclosures Map containing 10 acres, 3 roods & 5 perches; 2) Certain lands & tenements held freely formerly Skipper’s, afterwards Payne’s, sometime William Lock’s, then of Ezekiel Lock and late of Martha Ann Lock at the rent of 4d; 3) Certain lands & tenements held freely formerly Browne’s, afterwards Payne’s, sometime William Lock’s, then of Ezekiel Lock and late of Martha Ann Lock at the rent of 1s 2d; 4) Certain lands & tenements held freely formerly Newman’s, afterwards Payne’s, sometime William Lock’s, then of Ezekiel Lock and late of Martha Ann Lock at the rent of 2d; 5) Certain other lands & tenements held freely formerly Brooke’s, afterwards Payne’s, sometime William Lock’s, then of Ezekiel Lock and late of Martha Ann Lock at the rent of 7½d.
		July 14^th 1882 on the surrender of Robert Phoenix	Leonard George Bolingbroke – Deed of Enfranchisement was enrolled, in return for a payment to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of £7 (see below).		Piece no 41 on the Deopham 1814 Inclosures Map containing 1 acre & 2 roods
Jonathan Doubleday (deceased)	1st Proclamation				Free tenant
William Knott (deceased)	1st Proclamation				Free tenant
Bond Jonathan Woodhouse (deceased)	1st Proclamation				Free tenant

Deeds of Enfranchisement

James Oakley

The 1814 map identifications are highlighted in yellow, and the exception for mining and mineral extraction is highlighted in green below.

This Indenture made the nineteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and one
Between
– The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (Lords of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean And Chapter of Canterbury and hereinafter called the Lords) of the one part, and
– James Oakley of Fleet in the County of Southampton, General Store Proprietor (hereinafter called the Tenant) of the other part.

Whereas on the third day of September One thousand, nine hundred and one the Tenant was admitted by virtue of the Will of Rebecca Howard deceased
To All that piece of land being the first allotment by the Deopham Inclosure Award to Robert Knights deceased, marked on the Map thereto annexed Numbered 139 containing according to such Award Fourteen acres one rood and nine perches, but containing according to the recent Ordnance Survey Fourteen acres and twenty eight perches with a Messuage and other buildings standing thereon, bounded by the Stalland Road in part North, by land allotted to William Lock in part East and on the remaining part of the North by land allotted to Samuel Heyhoe Le Neve Gilman on the remaining part of the East by the seventh Private Road set out by the said Award South, and by the sixth private road set out by the said Award West;
And also all that piece of land being the second allotment made to the said Robert Knights deceased marked on the said Map Numbered 141 containing two acres and three roods bounded by the third and fourth allotments by the said Award made to the said Robert Knights deceased North, by the sixth private road set out by the said Award East, by land allotted to Francis Oddin Taylor South, and by the parish of Great Ellingham West;

And whereas by an Order of Her late Majesty, Council dated the sixth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty two and published in the London Gazette of the eighth day of the same month¹ the Lords became and are now seized of and absolutely entitled in fee simple to the said Manor of Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury;

And whereas the Tenant has agreed with the Lords for the enfranchisement of the said hereditaments at the sum of Ninety nine pounds

Now this Indenture witnesseth that in consideration of Ninety Nine pounds paid by the Tenant into the Bank of England to the account of the Lords as appointed by them in that behalf, the receipt of which is acknowledged by a memorandum at the foot hereof;

They the Lords Do hereby grant unto the Tenant All the hereditaments hereinbefore particularly described and to which the Tenant was so as aforesaid admitted by the description hereinbefore set forth,

Except and reserved unto the Lords, their successors and assigns all mines, beds and veins of minerals, coal, clay, plate, stone and other substances and substrata within and under the hereditaments hereby granted, or any part thereof, lying below a distance of Two hundred feet from the surface thereof;

To hold the hereditaments hereby granted (except and reserved as aforesaid) unto and to the use of the Tenant, his heirs and assigns henceforth and for ever discharged from the copyhold tenure thereof and from all fines, quitrents, duties, services or customs and all other incidents whatsoever of copyhold or customary tenure;

And the Lords for themselves and their successors do hereby covenant with the Tenant, his heirs and assigns That they, the Lords, have not done anything whereby or by reason or means whereof any part of the hereditaments hereby granted is in anywise encumbered.

In witness whereof the Lords have caused their Common Seal to be hereunto affixed and the Tenant has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written

James Oakley in the presence of William Ephraim Whenday, Albion Cottage, Fleet, Hants.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in the presence of F.A. Manley, Registrar, 10 Whitehall Place, Westminster

Thomas Frederick Ringer

The indenture (dated July 11^th 1907) starts with a description of the property as detailed above, and then repeats the act by which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners became Lords of the Manor in 1862, as in the Oakley deed above.
The following exception is then included in more extensive terms than the Oakley exception, although coal is not mentioned explicitly this time.
The 1814 map identifications are highlighted in yellow, and the exception for mining and mineral extraction is highlighted in green below.

This Indenture made the eleventh day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seven
Between
– The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (Lords of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean And Chapter of Canterbury and hereinafter called the Lords) of the one part, and
– Thomas Frederick Ringer of Summerfield, Kings Lynn in the County of Norfolk, Gentleman (hereinafter called the Tenant) of the other part;
Whereas on the twenty ninth day of June One thousand eight hundred and seventy two the Tenant was admitted under the Will of Ezekiel Lock after the death of Martha Ann Lock To “a certain piece of Copyhold land allotted by the Commissioners for carrying into execution an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third entitled “An Act for Enclosing Lands in the parish of Deopham in the County of Norfolk” to William Lock deceased and which said piece of land was marked on the Map annexed to the Award of the said Commissioners Numbered 163 and doth contain Ten acres, three roods and five perches” …

Now this Indenture witnesseth that in consideration of Forty five pounds paid by the Tenant into the Bank of England to the account of the Lords as appointed by them in that behalf, the receipt of which is acknowledged by a memorandum at the foot hereof;
They the Lords Do hereby grant unto the Tenant
– First, All that the said piece of land marked Number 163 on the Deopham Inclosure Award Map, and
– Second, All those the said hereditaments formerly Skipper’s, formerly Browne’s, formerly Newman’s and formerly Brooke’s in respect of which the Tenant acknowledged free tenure in the said Manor by the descriptions hereinbefore set set forth or mentioned,

Excepting nevertheless and reserving to the Lords (the Tenant also hereby granting and releasing to them) and their successors and assigns all mines and minerals with the mineral or substrata lying and being within or under (and situate at a greater depth than Two hundred feet from the surface of) the said copyhold hereditaments hereinbefore expressed to be hereby conveyed or enfranchised;
Together with full power to win and work, get and carry away by any methods of mining which shall for the time being be in ordinary use in the District or otherwise recognised as a proper way of working mines, but without entering upon the surface of the said hereditaments or of the buildings for the time being thereon.

To hold the hereditaments hereby granted (except and reserved as aforesaid) unto and to the use of the Tenant, his heirs and assigns discharged from the copyhold and customary freehold tenure thereof and from all fines, reliefs, quit and free rents, duties, services or customs and all other incidents whatsoever of copyhold or customary freehold tenure.

And the Lords for themselves and their successors do hereby covenant with the Tenant, his heirs and assigns
That they the Lords have not done anything whereby or by reason or means whereof any part of the hereditaments hereby granted is in anywise encumbered.

In witness whereof the Lords have caused their Common Seal to be hereunto affixed and the Tenant has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written
Sealed by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in the presence of F.A. Manley, Registrar, Ecclesiastical Commission, Westminster;
Signed sealed and delivered by the above named Thomas Fred Ringer in the presence of Womack William Ringer, Titchwell, Farmer.

The release of manorial ties is similar to the Oakley deed, but enlarged to cover the freehold premises that are in scope in addition to the copyhold premises.

Leonard George Bolingbroke

The indenture (dated May 20^th 1909) starts with a description of the property as detailed in the table above, and then repeats the act by which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners became Lords of the Manor in 1862 as in the Oakley deed above.
The following clause highlighted in green effectively means that Leonard Bolingbroke had no exceptions to his enfranchisement, unlike Messrs Oakley and Ringer above:

Now this Indenture witnesseth that in consideration of Seven pounds paid by the Tenant into the Bank of England to the account of the Lords as appointed by them in that behalf, the receipt of which is acknowledged by a memorandum at the foot hereof;
They the Lords Do hereby grant unto the Tenant
All that the said piece of land containing one acre and two roods hereinbefore particularly described,
Together with all the rights preserved by Section 23 of the Copyhold Act of 1894
To hold the said hereditaments hereby granted unto and to the use of the Tenant, his heirs and assigns according to the form and effect of the said Surrender as freehold, enfranchised and for ever discharged from all incidents of copyhold tenure …

Locations on the Deopham 1814 Inclosures Map

Piece no 41

Piece no 92

Piece no 139

Piece no 141

Piece no 163

Footnotes

There is transcript of this order as published in the London Gazette here. ↩︎

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Date	Change
4/8/25	Link to London Gazette of 1862
15/3/25	Details of Bolingbroke land
7/2/25	Reviewed against Court Book – 20250108_151603
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