Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury 1700

Contents

1. Heading
2. Court Baron
   1. Homage
   2. Property
      1. Transfers
      2. Permission to build
3. Court Leet
   1. Capital Pledges
      1. Sworn
   2. Officers
4. Footnotes
5. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury: General Court Baron with the Leet & Petty Session
Date	September 23rd 1700
Steward	Not recorded
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	Not paginated

Court Baron

Homage

Stephen Payne

Robert Drag

John Cory

Property

Transfers

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
			Mary Briteing, Widow1		Free tenant of 2 Messuages of Thomas Jacobs	1s
			Stephen Greene		1 Cottage of Robert Bowen	1s
Francis Fyson (deceased)			Elizabeth, wife of the late Thomas Buchell, and heir of the late Francis Fyson		1 acre in The Church Field in Deopham between Walter Carver, gentleman, land of Francis Fyson, South, abutting land of Jeremy Coleman.2
			Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Buchell		Free tenant of a Messuages	2s
August 12th 1700: John Cory out of Court made a conditional surrender in return for a loan of £14 6s of legal English money			John Nobby		2 acres & 1 rood between land of Stephen Payne, South; abutts land of this Manor called The Stalland, West

Permission to build

Persons applying	Proposal
Francis Boreman & Martha his wife	To build a cottage on The Low Common, where the cottage of Francis Smith stood, for the use of Francis & Martha during their natural lives, then after their deaths for the poor of the village of Deopham.

Court Leet

Capital Pledges

Sworn

Thomas Sewell John Cory Edward Bale Stephen Greene Francis Hine

Thomas Themilthorpe William Lewis William Mothersole Thomas Buchell David Holt

Thomas Hipkin Robert Mynies [?] Thomas Warle [?] John Dey

Officers

Office	Name
Constable	Jonathan Dey

Footnotes

1. The tenant was originally written as Stephen Green but this has been crossed out and replaced by a name that is difficult to read. ↩︎
2. A marginal note indicates that John Gall took on this acre at the Court of March 28^th 1729. ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
23/4/25	Published – 20250108_105936