OR798-816

Manorial records

1383-1767

From: 1383 To: 1767

It should be noted that the method of keeping the rolls is not consistently logical throughout. Orders, pains and bylaws will be found on the estreat rolls as well as by themselves or on the court rolls or draft court rolls.

Most, if not all the paper drafts and accessory papers (presentments, estreats, etc.) had at one time been tied together in bundles by a leather or parchment strip threaded through the head; but when they were received, the majority had become loose. As the presentments (which, in the stitched bundles, are found next to the draft roll to which they relate) are not dated till the mid-17th century, it was impossible to be sure of the proper placing of those found loose. The arrangement of the bundles which, when received, were still tied, appears to have been by rough, but only very rough, inverse chronological order. The following was their order:- Draft rolls:- 1559, 1574, 1575, 1576, 1578, 1579, 1580, 1583, 1599, 1602, 1600, 1598, 1601. 1603, 1604, 1605, 1606, 1609, 1611, 1612,1613, 1618, 1619. 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1637. 1663, 1666, 1668, 1671, 1676, 1668, 1679,1674, 1682, 1685, 1689, 1693, 1697. (back to front) (5 bundles). Estreats:- 1615, 1616, 1618, 1619, 1621, 1625, 1624, 1626, 1627, 1628. 1634, 1632, 1631, 1630, 1627, 1625, 1588. (2 bundles) As the stitched rolls and estreats dovetailed in with those (the majority) which had become loose, it was thought best to unstitch them and attempt to make continuous series. The weak point in the series is the uncertain placing of the undated loose presentments.

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MANORS & MANORIAL, PODINGTON, BLUNHAM, court rolls, estreats