“_Custom_ 1. That all the copyholds and customary messuages, lands,
and tenements within the said manor are, and have been time out of
mind, copyholds of inheritance, demised and demisable to the
copyholders or customary tenants thereof, and their heirs in fee
simple by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the said
manor.
“_Custom_ 2. That the customary tenements within the said manor do
descend, and ought to descend, as tenements of the tenure, and in the
nature of Borough-English, not only to the youngest son or youngest
daughter, and for default of such issue of such customary tenant to
the youngest brother or youngest sister, but also, for default of
such brother and sister of such customary tenant, to the next kinsman
or kinswoman of the whole blood of the customary tenant in
possession, how far so ever remote.
“_Custom_ 3. That if any tenant of any copyhold die, seized of any
copyhold, his wife living, then she ought to come to the next Court
or Law-day to make her claim and election, whether she will pay a
penny and hold for her widow’s estate, or pay half her husband’s
fine, and to keep the copyhold tenement during her life.
“_Custom_ 4. That the husband of any wife (as customary tenant of
the said manor) dying, seized of any customary tenement within the
said manor, is entitled to have such customary tenement of his wife
so dying, during his life, though the said husband had no issue of
the body of his said wife.
“_Custom_ 5. That if any copyholder or customary tenant of the said
manor die, and leave his heir within the age of fourteen years, that
then the nearest of kin and farthest from the land, have had, and
ought to have the guardianship and custody of the body of such heir
and his copyholds, held of that manor, so that at the next Court or
Law-day he come in and challengeth the same, and to keep the same
until the heir come to be of the age of fourteen years.
“_Custom_ 6. That the heir of any customary tenant within the said
manor is compellable to pay his fine to the lord of the said manor,
and be admitted tenant before he attain his age of one and twenty
years, if he come to the possession of his customary estate.
“_Custom_ 7. That the fine due to the lord of the said manor upon
the admission or alienation of any customary tenant, to any customary
tenement within the said manor, is, and time out of mind was, double
the quit-rent of the said customary tenement; that is to say, when
the quit-rent of any customary tenement was twenty shillings, the
tenant of such tenement did pay to the lord of the said manor forty
shillings for a fine.
“_Custom_ 8. That every heir and tenant of any customary lands of
the said manor may sell his inheritance during the life of the widow
of his ancestor, who enjoys such customary estate for life.
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