Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury September 1612

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Title	Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury: General Court with Leet & Petty Session
Date	September 26th 1612
Steward	–
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	–

General Court

Inquisitores Ex Officio

Sworn

John Cutts Richard Smythe John Childerhouse Robert Newman

George Brunton

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
			Elizabeth Lichon [???]		Acknowledged tenure of a cottage built near Tonn Greene in Deopham.	1d
Oliver Browne (deceased): before his death he had surrendered to the use of his last will & testament, by the hand of George Brunton in the presence of John Cutts & Robert Newman – all copyhold tenants of this Manor.	September 20th 1611 on the surrender of William Hinde		Elizabeth his wife during the term of her natural life & after to Anne daughter of Gregory [Hynde] & Elizabeth, according to the will of Oliver Browne (deceased).		1 acre of land in Churchfield in Deopham between land of this Manor, North, land lately in the tenure of Oliver Browne now Gregory Hynde, South, abutts Thomas Corbald, clerk, West.		5s

Court Leet

Capital Leet

Sworn

Richard Smythe John Walter Henry Neave William Augur John Childerhouse John Cutts Thomas Reynolds

Stephen Meekes Henry Howlet John Bydwell, senior John Bydwell, junior George Brunton Robert Underwood William Bullock

Misdemeanors

Name	Offence	Penalty	Penalty if not rectified
John Dover of Elingham & Walter Stacy of Hingham	Cutting furze1 on the Common Pasture of this Manor called The Stalland	6d each	10s
Richard Allen	He was accused as a miller of taking more toll2 that he ought.	6d	6s 8d

Election of Officer

Office	Name	Name of predecessor
Constable	George Brunton	Henry Neave

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Footnotes

1. Furze (gorse) was a valuable commodity as fuel, animal fodder and nutrient. It was not unusual for manors to find it necessary to defend this crop and penalise those who took it unlawfully. ↩︎
2. A miller’s toll was his customary payment, taken as a proportion of the grain brought for grinding. It was known as multure or miller’s toll.
   It was a common complaint against millers throughout medieval and early modern England was that they took excessive toll. It became almost proverbial as in Chaucer’s Miller. ↩︎

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