Bisley Manor Court Roll 12 July 1856

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At a Special Court Baron of The Right Honorable Arthur George Earl of Onslow Lord of the said Manor held for the said Manor on Saturday the twelfth day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty six in the twentieth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith and in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty six Before Joseph Hockley Gentleman Steward of the Courts of the said Manor.

 

Absolute Surrender James Hone to John Baker

At this Court came here into Court in his proper person John Baker of Sheets Farm in the parish of Woking in the County of Surrey Husbandman and delivered to the said Steward the memorandum of a Certain Surrender taken out of Court on the said twelfth day of July instant Whereby James Hone late of Knaphill in the parish of Woking in the County of Surrey but now of Henley on Thames in the County of Oxford Nurseryman one of the Copyhold or Customary Tenants of the said manor in consideration of the Sum of Two hundred and eighty Pounds to him Paid by the said John Baker Surrendered into the hands of the Lord of the said Manor by the Rod and by the acceptance of the said Steward According to the Custom of the said manor All those three acres of land whereon a messuage had been erected with the appurtenances formerly part of the waste of the said manor lying at Hassell Hall between Cowshot and Staveck Lane in Bisley within the said Manor formerly in the tenure or Occupation of Robert Goodener his undertenants or assigns since of James Faggetter and John Tyler afterwards of Abraham Groves and now of Charles Boylett with the appurtenances To the use and Behoof of the said John Baker his heirs and assigns for ever

Admittance of John Baker

And thereupon the said John Baker humbly prayed to be admitted to the said three acres of land with the messuage thereon erected with the appurtenances in pursuance of the said Surrender To whom the Lord of the Manor aforesaid by his Steward aforesaid Granted the same and delivered seizin thereof by the rod  To hold to the said John Baker his heirs and assigns for ever by Copy of Court Roll at the Will of the Lord according to the custom of the said Manor by the yearly rent of six pence heriot when it shall happen Suit of Court and other services and customs therefore formerly due and of right accustomed And so he was admitted Tenant thereof in form aforesaid  Gave to the Lord as a fine for such his admittance as appears in the Margin [£19] and his fealty was respited.

 

Examined by

Joseph Hockley  Steward