Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury September 1637

Contents

1. Heading
2. Court baron
   1. Capital Leet
      1. Sworn
   2. Inquisitores Ex Officio
      1. Sworn
3. Property
4. Court Leet
   1. Misdemeanors
   2. Defaulters
   3. Officer
5. Assessors
6. Footnotes
7. Navigation

Heading

Title	Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury: General Court with Leet & Petty Session
Date	September 18th 1637
Steward	–
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	–

Court baron

Capital Leet

Sworn

Francis Amyas, gentleman Richard Smythe Richard Whynn Philip Cory George Brunton Richard Diver

Anthony Caly John Ocloe Robert Blomefield Sampson Houchin William Bydnell William Noobes, senior William Turner

Inquisitores Ex Officio

Sworn

Francis Amyas, gentleman Robert Underwood Anthony Caly Philip Cory Richard Smythe George Brunton

Property

Person surrendering property	Proclamations	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Attorney	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
			Robert Underwood		1) 2½ acres of freehold land in Hawfield in Deopham formerly of Richard James; 2) 1 acre of freehold land in a furlong called Cainpits in Deopham formerly of Robert Cock; 3) 1½ acres formerly of Robert Newman.	6d 3d 3d
			Anthony Caly		1) 2 acres and a messuage in Deopham 2) 2 acres 3) 2 acres of freehold land in Deopham by The Breeds abutting the Longheadland, South; 4)1 acre 5) 1½ acres 6) 1 acre 7) 1 acre All of these were previously of Thomas Amyas1, gentleman (deceased) and before that of John Seaman, except the tenement called Paynes with a croft which was of Thomas Amyas then of Robert Knights	7d 12d 5d 3d 6d 4d 4d
					A further sentence follows on from the above, amended in a different hand, mentioning Thomas Amyas and land with the Breeds to the South, abutting Squires. This is however on a damaged section at the bottom of the page and virtually illegible.	3d
			Thomas Smythe, senior		2½ acres of freehold land in the Westfield of Deopham between land of George Dover, South; land of Robert Newman, North, abutting Tungatelane, East	10d
Frances Ocloe (deceased), wife of John Ocloe, previously relict of Israel Bubin		September 27th 1599 on the surrender of John Bidwell	Richard son & heir of Israel had died; James the brother died before this court; William Bubin, son of James, was admitted as tenant		3 roods of copyhold previously tenement Brownes and before that Bollyswood in Deopham between Robert Cock, South, Francis Bubin then Robert Bidwell, North, abutts a way, East
			William Noobes, junior, was admitted as guardian because William was only 14 years old.
Thomas Corbold (deceased)

Court Leet

Misdemeanors

Name	Misdemeanor	Amercement	Deadline	Penalty after deadline
Edmund Cock	Digging on the Lord’s land near Deopham Moore	5s		40s
William Turner		3d	May 1st	2s
Edmund Cock	Tree branches along the way from Tungreen	3d	May 1st	3s 3d

Defaulters

Name	Amercement
Robert Bale of Wicklewood	12d
Nicholas Dunkorne of Morley	12d

Officer

Office	Name	Succeeding
Constable	Anthony Caly	William Turner

Assessors

Francis Amyas, gentleman

Robert Underwood

Footnotes

1. Thomas Amyas has been spelt Amias in the record. For consistency, the form Amyas has been used here. ↩︎

Navigation

Date	Change
8/8/25	Published – 20250108_103843