Reference
R6/15/5/4
Title
Orders made by the homage
Date free text
22 October 1733
Production date
From: 1733 To: 1733
Scope and Content
Orders made by the Homage at court before Humphrey Smith, steward:
- order for those with stiles of bridges “leading to any Markett or Church way” to make them easy for passage, default 3/4 fine;
- order to ring all hogs or swine at eight weeks old, default 1/- fine;
- order that not more than three sheep per acre in plough ground and six per acre in sward to be kept in the common fields, default 3/4 per head fine;
- order that no one put cattle into the common fields, greens or lands “that are not really and bona fide his own” default 3/4 per head fine;
- order that anyone putting cattle into the greens, lanes or highways between May Day and the clearing of the White Fields should stake them, default 3/4 per head fine;
- order that no one put any “mangey or infected horse, mare or colt” on the commons, default 3/4 fine per head;
- order that no one put above one cow or horse into the fields per four acres occupied in the stubble fields, default 5/- per head “except the Cottages who may keep as many as they can common in the Highway”;
- order that tilth fields be kept “severall fourteen days after Michaelmas and that time the field rieves shall have power to present all persons that shall keep any more sheep than they can common in the fallow field from that day to that day twelve month according to these orders and the Pease Field or fields from the first day of March in pain for every default in not keeping them 3/4”
- order that no sheep be put into the White Fields until they were clear and no sheep into pease fields until one month after they had been cleared, default 2d per sheep fine;
- order that no one having a cottage or pottage should let, lend or give away the commons to anyone, default 3/4 fine;
- “Wee the Homage do agree to confirme these Orders made the last Court (except the Order for making the bean Field or Fields severall att the first Day of March which we agree shall be common until the twelfth Day) 7 November 1734;
- Homage: Richard Partridge; Tawyer Turney; Thomas Partridge; George Wheeler; Andrew Park; William Paine; Thomas Odell; Thomas Knight; John Cripps; Edward Odell; William Archurch; John Webb; William Cantor
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