Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury December 1797

Contents

1. Heading
2. Homage
3. Property
4. Footnotes
5. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury: The First General Court Baron of the Reverend Bence Sparrow1, Lord of this Manor
Date	December 21st 1797
Steward	Samuel Gilman, Gentleman, Steward
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	304 – 311

Homage

Jonathan Dey

John Jolly

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
John Clarke Stoughton of Wymondham, Gentleman, acting on behalf of John Jackson		October 28th 1772 after the surrender of Edward Payne & Sarah his wife	John Bousell of Deopham, Gentleman	Himself	1½ acres in Deopham Church Field in Stonehill Furlong nest to the Demesne lands of this Manor, West & South; Drag Way, East;
John Bousell			Into the hands of the Lord of the Manor to the use & behoof of John Bousell’s last will & testament.
Edward Clarke		April 20th 1723 as only son and heir following the death of William Clarke	Robert Knights of Deopham		One tenement called Brown’s with a barn built, in Deopham, in Woolwyte Street otherwise Stalland Street, containing 1 acre, 1 rood & 20 perches		£10
			Robert Knights		Freehold tenant of certina lands & tenements held in free & common socage formerly Stacey’s and late Clarke’s	2s 4d
Robert Knights made a conditional surrender in return for a mortgage of £150 + interest					As above
William Lock		February 20th 1797 after the surrender of Thomas Grigson Payne, Esquire	Robert Knights of Deopham	Himself	1 rood & 3 perches of land in Deopham, part of an acre on which a Messuage (now void) formerly stood, between the lands now of Robert Knights, late Edward Clark’s, North; William Lock, West; William Knights late Blanchard’s, East & South;	4d
Robert Knights			Into the hands of the Lord of the Manor to the use & behoof of Robert Knights’s last will & testament.	Himself
James Cooper (deceased) Samuel Jolly (deceased)	1st Proclamation: February 20th 1797 2nd Proclamation				Copyhold tenants of “One Cottage built upon the Waste of the Lord of this Manor called The Low Common, with a piece of land to the said Cottage adjoining”.

Footnotes

1. The Rev. Bence Sparrow later renamed himself Rev. Bence Bence. The lease of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury dated November 25^th 1800 stated that the Rev. Bence Sparrow’s status was a result of his being the “Devisee in Trust named in the last Will and Testament of Ann Amyas deceased”. Ann Amyas had been Lady of the Manor since her first Court on March 1^st 1764.
   This Court occurred before the Rev. Sparrow had become the guardian of Bevil Amyas. ↩︎

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