History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local EventsErredge, John Ackerson
History
History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It: With a Chronological Table of Local Events
Erredge, John Ackerson
Brighton (England) -- History
13. If a tenant let to farm his _copyhold_ for more than one year
and a day at a time, he is to come to the lord’s court for license,
which the lord is to grant, the tenant paying him _four-pence_, and
no more, for every year so granted, with a reservation of the lord’s
customs, duties, and services. Also the _copyholder_, having a barn
on his copyhold, is to pay the lord _four-pence_, or less, but never
more, for every wainload of corn or hay that grows on his said
copyhold, and is carried out of the manor with license, or to any
freehold within the manor. But the tenant may carry corn or hay from
one copyhold to another on the same manor, without license, where the
two copyholds have equal estates. But if one be a guardian, or a
tenant for life, and another tenant in fee, and any manure be removed
from the former estate to the latter, the party, so doing, shall be
amerced.
14. If a _copyholder_ alien his lands by _deed_, pull down his
building without license, or wilfully suffer it to fall, commit any
wilful waste, let his tenement for more than one year and a day
without license, obstinately refuse to pay his rent, or a reasonable
fine upon admittance, or absent himself, without sufficient cause,
from the lord’s court after lawful summons, or, being there, will not
be sworn of the homage, without satisfactory excuse, or carry all his
corn from the copyhold, if he have a barn there, he is, for any of
these offences, liable to forfeit his estate in the said copyhold.
15. _Strays_, found within any of these manors, and proclaimed
according to the statute, after a year and a day are passed, become
the property of the lord of that manor, by prescription. Every lord
is to maintain a common pound within his manor. But, of latter time,
all _strays_ within the _rape_ and _liberties_ of the barony of
_Lewes_, have, by consent of the lords, been presented at the _law
days_ or _leet_ holden for the hundred in which the _strays_ are
found.
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