Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury September 1625

Contents

1. Heading
2. Court baron
   1. Inquisitores Ex Officio
      1. Sworn
3. Property
4. Court Leet
   1. Capital Lete
      1. Sworn
   2. Essoin
   3. Offences
   4. Election of Officer
5. Footnotes
6. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury: General Court with Leet & Petty Session
Date	September 26th 1625
Steward	–
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	–

Court baron

Inquisitores Ex Officio

Sworn

John Ocloe John Cory John Cuttes

Richard Smythe George Brunton Arthur Smythe

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Frances Childerous, widow (deceased)		September 25th 1598	Robert Childerous1		½ messuage called Brown in Woolwhyte Streete in Deopham		5s
Robert Darkin			Robert Underwood		2 acres of copyhold land called Cuffes in The Westfield in Deopham between land of Robert Darkin North & South, abutts Tylles Croft, East.		13s 4d

Court Leet

Capital Lete

Sworn

William Bullock Philip Cory Thomas Hipkin Bartholomew Stone Richard Smythe John Bydwell, senior John Cuttes

George Brunton John Ocloe John Can Francis Bubin Edward Howlet Robert Lock

Essoin

Thomas Walter

William Daman

Offences

Offenders	Offence	Penalty per person	Deadline	Penalty if not rectified
Thomas Gosling	Allowed tree branches to obstruct a way to Morley	3d		3s 4d
Thomas Gosling		3d	29 days	3s 4d

Election of Officer

Office	Name	Name of predecessor
Sub-Constable	Edward Howlet	John Can

The following paid 4d each for the following year thus buying themselves out of the obligation whose breach would otherwise produce penalties for defaults:

Martin Sidley, esquire Robert Roper

Robert Longe, gentleman John Dennys

Footnotes

1. The spelling of the surname varies each time it is written in this record; it is clear however that it is not intended to be Childerhouse. ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
28/8/26	Published – 20250108_103345