ECR 48 010
Reference code
ECR 48 010
Title
Mapledurham, Oxfordshire: Inspeximus
Level
Item
Date
18 May 1640
Extent & medium
1 manuscript
Content description
Inspeximus of a record among the Records of the K R Memoranda Roll of Easter 16 Charles I [E. 159/480] in which is reference to a book of Decrees and Orders, in which is shown under 8 may 1640 that William Day, clerk, vicar of Mapledurham, lately exhibited his English Bill into the court against Charles Blount, Knight and other, defendants, touching the detaining if the tythes of the demesnes of the manor of Gurney and Chaucey in the parish of Mapledurham and the imparking of glebe lands and of copyhold lands which always paid tithes to the vicar. In his answer Sir Charles confessed to the imparking of one or two acres of glebe and 32 acres of copyhold for which he would make recompense. As for the tythes, the dean and canons of Windsor had a portion of tythes in Mapledurham called Beckharlewen tythes which they leased to John Sunybanke who leased them to Sir Richard Blount, the defendant's father, who left them to Lister Blunt, his executor, who assigned his interest therein to the defendant, by virtue of which lease the defendant claimed exemption for his two manors of Gurney and Chaucey from any tithes in kind to the vicar except the tithe of hay for which he pleaded a proscription of payment of 20s yearly. He described the dean and canons to be called in to defend their right.
So the plaintiff exhibited a bill against them, and they confessed that the plaintiff should have all the tithes of the parish except two third parts of the tythes of corn, lamb, cheese, wool, pigs, calves, and pannage out of the demesnes of the manor of Chaucey which they call Beckharlewen tythes.
By order of 8 May it was decreed that the glebe lands imparked should be laid open again and enjoyed by the plaintiff and his successors; that the plaintiff should have a valuable consideration yearly for the copyhold lands imparked, that the plaintiff should enjoy all those tithes which the defendant claimed under the dean and canons of Windsor, to wit, all those in kind of the manor of Gurney and all of the manor of Chaucy except two third parts of the tithes of corn etc; and except the tithes of hay on both manors which remained in question in court.
Witness: Humfrey Davenporte (Chief Baron of the Exchequer), Knight, Westminster.
Seal of the Exchequer, bronze wax, on doubled tag. Much of the obverse missing at the right side and at the top; of the reverse only a small section on the right surviving.
In the initial a drawing of the king in ink and pencil, and lion and unicorn, crown and floral and linear decoration at the top of the document.
So the plaintiff exhibited a bill against them, and they confessed that the plaintiff should have all the tithes of the parish except two third parts of the tythes of corn, lamb, cheese, wool, pigs, calves, and pannage out of the demesnes of the manor of Chaucey which they call Beckharlewen tythes.
By order of 8 May it was decreed that the glebe lands imparked should be laid open again and enjoyed by the plaintiff and his successors; that the plaintiff should have a valuable consideration yearly for the copyhold lands imparked, that the plaintiff should enjoy all those tithes which the defendant claimed under the dean and canons of Windsor, to wit, all those in kind of the manor of Gurney and all of the manor of Chaucy except two third parts of the tithes of corn etc; and except the tithes of hay on both manors which remained in question in court.
Witness: Humfrey Davenporte (Chief Baron of the Exchequer), Knight, Westminster.
Seal of the Exchequer, bronze wax, on doubled tag. Much of the obverse missing at the right side and at the top; of the reverse only a small section on the right surviving.
In the initial a drawing of the king in ink and pencil, and lion and unicorn, crown and floral and linear decoration at the top of the document.
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