Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury 1703

Contents

1. Heading
2. Court Baron
   1. Homage
      1. Sworn
   2. Property
3. Court Leet
   1. Capital Pledges
      1. Sworn
   2. Misdemeanors
   3. Officers
   4. Appointments
4. Footnotes
5. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury: General Court Baron with the Leet & Petty Session
Date	September 22nd 1703
Steward	William Mantell, Gent
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	Not paginated

Court Baron

Homage

Sworn

Robert Drag	Stephen Payne
Samuel Youngman	Thomas Bothell

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Joseph Payne (deceased)		October 18th 1681	Joseph Payne & Rebecca Payne his mother		1) 4 acres of land between Nathaniel Bullard and lands of this Manor; 2) A tenement in Deopham in a field called Westfield, which by estimation are 1 acre & 1 rood; 3) 1 acre of land & pasture, by estimation 1 abutts a lane from Deopham to Hingham Stalland, West; 4) 1 rood of pasture		£3
The heirs of William Barnham: 1) Richard Cooper & Susanna his wife; 2) Anna Barnham, Spinster; 3) Bernard Fourster & Hannah his wife; 4) Abraham Gestis & Elizabeth his wife		September 23rd 1691 on the surrender of Robert Grigson	Elizabeth Pooley, spinster		1 acre in Deopham Westfield between Thomas Taylor, South abutts land Edward Payne, East, land of William Barnham, West.		1s

Court Leet

Capital Pledges

Sworn

Thomas Sewell Robert Willyment John Dey George Motheresole Edward Bale James Frost Edward Wright

Thomas Bothell William Reynolds Stephen Greene, Gentleman Robert Munies Epothenius1 Andrewes Thomas Hipkin

Misdemeanors

Person	Crime	Penalty
Thomas Blackborne	Did not drain the water off the Chik close	10s
John Nobes John Cory Rebecca Payne	Obstructed the way called Park Way from The Stolland to the Lane called The Pye Lane	2p if not rectified by Feast of Christ’s birth
John Harmon	Defaulted on The Thirteen Acres	20s if default not settled by Feast of Christ’s birth

Officers

Office	Name
Constable	Thomas Bothell

Appointments

Office	Name	Serving	Role	Stipend
	Francis Godfrey Robert Draper	Robert Draper	Domestic	£10 1s

Footnotes

1. There are several spellings of this forename:
   Euphemus in 1722;
   Euphemia in 1723;
   Ephemus in 1728 ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
21/04/25	Published – 20250108_110051