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Wroxhill Court Rolls of various dates fastened together. EXTRACTS. 30 April, 1603. Wroxhill Leet Court held for the honour of Glociter (Gloucester.). Presentments - Wroxhill. William Anglissaye, gentleman, for alienating land to Thomas Olde in the common fields:- Henry Edwards, yeoman, for the like to John Week, labourer: Richard Goldsmith for not scouring his ditch at North Mead. The water-course which comes from Smithend 'Lann' to Northmead Broucke to be scoured by the owners. The water-course which goes from Wooton Hill to Rownd Merhill ought to go, and from henceforth shall go, between two roods of the land of John Gostwick. HOLCOTTE. John Stone for alienating land to John Vase. 23 October, 1604. Wroxhill. Court Baron held there by George Catesby, esquire (lord of the said manor of Wroxhill within the parish of Marston Mortaine, Thomas Cheeney, ('Choney' on the next page.) esquire being farmer of the said lordship. Presentments - Various persons for not doing service : Thomas Bosworth, a free tenant of the lord, for alienating land in the fields of Wroxhill to William Cowley. Margaret Gostwicke, widow, holds of the lord a close called Alines, pitells called the Round Pitell, the Long-pitell and Ponoxend Pitell, a close called Times, a messuage, etc., called Asplons, a close called Old Hurmors otherwise Hunderpound Close. Henry Edwards holds of the lord land called Capods Acre. William Anglissay, gentleman, holds of the lord a close called Fillerse. (It is not certain to which of the two dates (1604 or 1631) these indented entries belong, but it is probable to the earlier date.) Thomas Pearce holds of the lord a close called Richardsons. Thomas Basterfeild holds of the lord a messuage, a close called Pinoxend Close, a 'pitell' called Pinox End and arable land in the fields of Wroxhill. Richard Basterfeild, one of the lord's free tenants, died since the last court. He held a messuage, a 'pitell' called Legatts, and other land. Richard Basterfeild, his nephew, holds by alienation of the said Richard a portion of the above land. Thomas Basterfeild holds by alienation of the said Richard the elder, the pitell called Legatts and land belonging. 20 October, 1631. WROXHILL. Court Baron held by George Catesby, esquire, lord of the manor. The homage - Thomas Basterfeild, Roger Pearce, Thomas Impey, Richard Basterfeild, Richard Sugar, Zachary Man, Richard Odell, William Wodcrafte, John Wodcrafte, Thomas Stokes, David Robinson, Edward Martin. Presentments - The names of the free tenants of the manor. Thomas Prior died since the last court, holding land in the Est Feild of the lord. Henry Taylor died since the last court, holding land lying in Ashbroke furlong of the lord. Roger Basterfeild, son and heir of Thomas Basterfeild, holds by the alienation of his father, land in the field of Wroxhill, a messuage and close, a 'pitell' called Penox and other land and a pitell called Legatts. Zachary Man holds by alienation of the said Thomas, a close called Pinnox End Close. William Gostwick holds by alienation of the said Thomas, land in the fields of Wroxhill.

1603 - 1631

From: 1603 To: 1631

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Anglissaye, William,
Odle, Thomas,
Edwards, Henry,
Week, John,
Goldsmith, Richard,
Gostwick, John,
Stone, John,
Vase, John,
Catesby, George,
Cheeny, Thomas,
Bosworth, Thomas,
Cowley, William,
Gostwicke, Margaret,
Pearce, Thomas,
Basterfeild, Thomas,
Basterfeild, Richard,
Pearce, Roger,
Impey, Thomas,
Suger, Richard,
Man, Zachary,
Odell, Richard,
Wodcrafte, William,
Wodcrafte, John,
Stokes, Thomas,
Robinson, David,
Martin, Edward,
Prior, Thomas,
Taylor, Henry

Marston Moretaine Wroxhill Manor, copy court rolls, yeoman, labourer, ditching, Northmead Brook, widow, deaths, Marston Moretaine Wroxhill, MARSTON MORETAINE, Marston Moretaine Smith End, Wootton Hill, HOLCOT, Marston Moretaine fields, Marston Moretaine Pinnocks End