Bisley Manor Court Roll 11 June 1898
At a Special Court Baron of The Right Honorable William Hillier Earl of Onslow Lord of the said Manor held for the said Manor on Wednesday the eleventh day of June in the sixty first 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 ninety eight Before Humphrey Percy Smallpeice Gentleman Deputy of Frederic Ferdinand Smallpeice Gentleman Chief Steward there.
Absolute Surrender William Grimsley to Charles Pain
At this Court came here into Court Charles Pain of Holly Lodge Bisley in the County of Surrey Gentleman by John Mudge Furneaux his Attorney and delivered to the said Deputy Steward a certain Absolute Surrender taken out of Court and since the last General Court to wit on the twenty fifth day of May One thousand eight hundred and ninety eight Whereby William Grimsley of Bicester in the County of Oxford Fishmonger one of the copyhold or customary tenants of the said Manor in consideration of the sum of One hundred and ten pounds to him paid by the said Charles Pain did Surrender into the hands of the Lord of the said Manor by the Rod and by the acceptance of the Deputy Steward for that turn and purpose only and according to the custom of the said Manor All that One acre of land part of a parcel of land called Miles Grove within this said Manor and which said Acre adjoins to Miles Green on the South to the copyhold land called Wheat Leaz on the West to other part of Miles Green on the North and to one acre other part of Miles Grove on the East Together with the Messuage or Tenement formerly divided into two tenements and which were erected and built thereon by William Glazier now deceased and which were formerly in the occupation of Peter McNeil to which said premises the said William Grimsley was admitted tenant at a Special Court Baron held for the said Manor on the twenty fifth day of May One thousand eight hundred and ninety eight To the use of the said Charles Pain his heirs and assigns for ever To hold by Copy of Court Roll at the Will of the Lord according to the custom of the said Manor by and under the rents fines suits and services therefore due and of right accustomed
Admission of Charles Pain
And thereupon at this Court upon the first proclamation came here again into Court the said Charles Pain by the said John Mudge Furneaux his Attorney and humbly prayed to be admitted tenant to All that one acre of land part of a parcel of land called Miles Grove within this said Manor and which said Acre adjoins to Miles Green on the South to the copyhold land called Wheat Leaz on the West to other part of Miles Green on the North and to one acre other part of Miles Grove on the East Together with the Messuage or Tenement formerly divided into two tenements and which were erected and built thereon by William Glazier now deceased and which were formerly in the occupation of Peter McNeil pursuant to the said Surrender To whom the Lord of the manor aforesaid by his Deputy Steward aforesaid granted the same and delivered seizin thereof by the Rod To hold to the said Charles Pain his heirs and assigns for ever subject nevertheless to such right or equity of redemption as may now be subsisting therein under or by virtue of the said Conditional Surrender by Copy of Court Roll at the Will of the Lord according to the custom of the said Manor by the yearly rent of One halfpenny Heriot when it shall happen Suit of Court and other services and customs therefore formerly due and of right accustomed And so the said Charles Pain was by his said Attorney admitted tenant of the said premises accordingly and gave to the Lord as a fine for such his admittance as appears in the margin [£8 5s] had seizin by the rod and his fealty was respited
[Margin note: Enfranchised 21 March 1899]
Examined
Ferdinand Smallpeice
Steward.