Great Britain -- Economic conditions; Great Britain -- Social conditions
The said complainants by protestation that the said answer is
insufficient in the law for further replication say that the said bill
of complaint is certain and sufficient in the law to be answered unto,
and for further replication say that the said twenty acres mentioned in
the said bill is ancient copyhold land, and have been used to be demised
by copy of court roll, according to the custom of the said manor of
Cromwell time out of remembrance of man, as is alleged in the said bill,
and say also that the said twenty acres lieth now enclosed and have lien
enclosed by the space of sixty years or thereabout with other lands and
tenements holden by copy of court roll of the manor of Gresshawgh in
Wymondham aforesaid, which said twenty acres about the first or second
year of the reign of King Henry the Seventh, before that time with other
of the said lands then also enclosed did lie open as fields, and in the
time of the reign of King Edward the Fourth the said twenty acres were
holden, used, and occupied by copy of court roll, according to the
custom of the said manor, to one Edmund Cullyer and his heirs, by the
name of the third part of one enclose called Reading, being bond or
customary land in Wymondham aforesaid, to hold the same to the said
Edmund and his heirs by copy of court roll, at will of the lord of the
said manor according to the custom of the said manor; upon which grant
the said Edmund paid a fine to the lord of the said manor and was
admitted tenant thereof, by force whereof the said Edmund Cullyer was
seised of the said twenty acres in his demesne as of fee by copy of
court roll at will of the lord of the said manor, according to the
custom of the said manor, and the said Edmund so being seised of the
said twenty acres, the same did surrender according to the custom of the
said manor to one Thomas Plomer and his heirs, by virtue whereof the
said Thomas Plomer was admitted tenant of the said twenty acres,
according to the custom of the said manor, and was seised of the said
twenty acres in his demesne as of fee according to the custom of the
said manor, and paid the accustomable fine thereof for the same to the
lord of the said manor, and did the other services and paid the rents
thereof according to the custom of the said manor; and the said Thomas
Plomer so being seised of the said twenty acres the same did surrender
according to the custom of the said manor to the said Edmund Mychell
named in the said bill, by virtue whereof the said Edmund Mychell was
lawfully admitted tenant to the premises, according to the custom of
the said manor, and was seised thereof in his demesne as of fee
according to the said custom, and paid the accustomable fine for the
same to the lord of the said manor, and did the services and paid also
the rents thereof accordingly, and the said Edmund Mychell so being
seised of the premises according to the custom of the said manor, the
same according to the said custom did surrender to the said
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