Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

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Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Manorial Records
• Susan Flood County Archivist

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What is a Manor

• An administrative estate
• A managed property
• Collect rents from tenants labour, produce or
  cash
• Organised agriculture for profit
• Judicial rights

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What are Manorial Records

• Court rolls
• Surveys
• Extents
• Accounts
• Rentals
• Maps
• Terriers
• Custumals

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Court Roll
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The Manor of Bramfield
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This is entered truwly into the great book of
court recordes
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Copy of Court Roll
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Accounts
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Custumal
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Henry Cokedell holds a shop called Cornereshopp
next to the churchyard and pays 8d per annum
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Extent
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• Terrier

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• Rental

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• Estreat

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Maps
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The Manorial Officials

• Reeve
• Bailiff
• Steward
• Ale-conner or taster
• Hayward
• Pindar

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The Manorial Court

• Local parliament
• Small claims court
• Land registry

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The Court Baron
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The Court Leet
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Translation 1

• The jury say on oath that on the Saturday after
  Trinity Sunday in the eleventh year 21 June
  1337 William le Maners came with force and arms
  to the house of Isabel, formerly the wife of
  Robert le Gardyner, and there in the garden of
  the said Isabel, and with her assent, wounded and
  killed Thomas le Gardyner with bow and arrows,
  and escaped through the lane at the bottom of the
  garden which once belonged to Robert le Gardyner.
  And that the aforesaid Isabel was the guardian,
  harbourer and supporter of the same William, and
  after the said deed she fled to the church. And
  after this the said Isabel fled from the county.
• As a consequence of this deed, 8 acres of
  uncultivated (frisce) land are seized into the
  hands of the lord. Item 3 acres of land sown
  with wheat, and 3 acres sown with peas and oats.
  Item 3 roods of land sown with oats which the
  said William held from the Lord, valued at
  blank.

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Translation 2

• Item one messuage, 3 acres sown with wheat and
  half an acre sown with barley seized into the
  lords hands which Isabel held.
• Item seized from the chattels of the said William
  one horse valued at 3s, one cow valued at 6s.8d,
  one bullock valued at 3s, six ewes, two hoggets,
  four lambs valued at 6s. And other chattels of
  cloth, valued at 12d.
• Item from the goods and chattels of the said
  Isabel two old coverlets of tartarin (coverlytes
  de Tyrteyn) valued at 12d, two over-tunics with
  one furred hood valued at 4s. Item one table
  cloth, two and a half ells long, 3d. Item one
  brass 12 pint vessel, 12d, and one pan of four
  quarts, and one small basin, 6d. Item one plate,
  10d, and one pewter vessel, 16d. Item 5lb of
  wool, 6d. Item two chests, 18d. Item one large
  bowl, 4d, brushwood and old timber, 2d. Item
  hemp and flax soaked in oil, 6d.

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The end of the manorial system
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The Manorial Documents Registerwww.nationalarchi
ves.gov.uk/mdr
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