Court of the Manor of Shadwells otherwise Cockerells November 1668

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Title	Shadwell’s otherwise Cockerell’s in Morley: A General Court
Date	November 2^nd1668
Steward	Robert Dey, gentleman¹
Location	–
Page numbers in Court Roll	46 – 48

Inquisitores ex Officio

Sworn

Leonard Newman
Robert Ockley
Henry Porter

John Skepper
John Fisher

Property

Person surrendering property	Date of the Copyhold	Beneficiary	Identification of property	Rent	Fine
Richard Raven	1) October 10^th 2) October 4^th 1633 on the surrender of Henry Raven	John Raven a son of Richard Raven according to the will of his father [see below]	1) A messuage with 3 roods lately of Thomas Reynolds, by a messuage lately of Richard Reynolds, East, abutts a common way, South; 2) 2½ acres copyhold land on Morley between the freehold land lately of Henry Howlett, East, land of the lord of Morley Hall, West, abutts land of Morley Hall, South, a rood of pasture called Westmore, North.	3s 4d	£3
		John Raven	1) 10 acres of Freehold pasture in 12 pieces in Morley St. Buttolph lately of Richard Raven his father 2) 7½ acres of pasture by the copyhold land of John Raven, West, land of Morley Hall, East, abutts pasture called Westmore, North.	5s 1d
	October 29^th 1667	Robert Draper had married Margaret Whynn, widow	1) 4 acres & 1 rood of land in Deopham; 2) 2 acres of pasture in Gt. Ellingham	4s 5½d
			1 acre in Woadding Croft in the copyhold tenure of Edward Stephenson (deceased)	10s
		Frances Wesford [?], widow to be completed
January 28^th 1667: Leonard Newman of Deopham, Yeoman, conditionally surrendered before the Steward, Robert Dey, in return for a mortgage of £13 5s.	November 10th 1663 following the surrender of John Newman & Martha his wife	John Jubbs of Wymondham, Beerbrewer	2½ acres inclosed in Westfield in Deopham
John Stimpson (deceased)

Extract from the will of Richard Raven

The following extract from the will of Richard Raven dated July 18^th 1630 has been included in the Court Roll in English:

Item: I give & bequeath All those my lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, … as well Freehold, and Charterhold as Copiehold & Customaryhold scituate, lying & being in Morley St Buttolph aforesaid unto John Raven my Sonne & to his heires for ever.

Misdemeanor

Name	Misdemeanor	Penalty	Deadline	Penalty if deadline missed
John Cocke of Deopham	Not maintaining adequate fences between Glauson, or the Sixteen Acre Close, and land of John Fisher in Hackford held of this Manor	6d	Nativity of Christ	10s

Defaulters

Those who had defaulted were amerced 3d each; the total shown in the margin is 21d which corresponds to the 7 defaulters at 3d a person:

William Windham, Esquire
John Sedley
Robert Long
Edward Borman

Thomas Kett
Henry Gay
Francis Repps, gentleman

Footnotes

The name of the Steward is not given in the heading, but is referred to in the text concerning Leonard Newman. ↩︎

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