Reference
R6/15/5/9
Title
Court roll
Date free text
12 October 1736
Production date
From: 1736 To: 1736
Scope and Content
Court roll, John Field, deputy steward:
- plaints none;
- defaulters: as appears in the roll of the names of the suits;
- jurors: Richard Partridge, gentleman; Thomas Partridge, gentleman; John Crips, gentleman; Ralph Crips, gentleman; George Wheeler; William Paine; John Peter; Richard Hall; Richard Davis; Thomas Randall; John Brewer; Robert Norris; Thomas Odell the younger;
- presenting surrender by Joseph Field, gentleman and John Field his son to Mr Willaume of Tingrith;
- presenting Richard Partridge, John Crips and John Brice field keepers for the coming year;
- presenting James Morris, Joseph Smyth and John Brice constables for the coming year;
- presenting John Brice hayward for the coming year;
- 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 having a cottage or pottage should let, lend or give away the commons to anyone, default 3/4 fine;
- 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 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 one put above one cow or horse into the fields per four acres occupied in the stubble fields, default 5/- per head “except the Cottagers who may keep as many as they can common in the Highway”;
- 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 the hayward should be paid 1½d. per acre at Lady Day by those occupying land in the tilth fields also for every acre in Bean Field at Michaelmas and for every acre of wheat or barley at harvest “for frighting the Fowls and Birds from the lands in seed time and in and before Harvest” and ½d peer acre in Bean Field for keeping off fowls in seed time and “prevent the peasecods being stole in time when they are ripe and the said Hayward to find himself powder and shot”.
- adjourned until 2 November 1736
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