If any Copyholder make any Exchange of the • Poffeffion of his Copyhold, for Lands or Tenements holden by Deed at Common Law, or o'therwise, whereby the Lord may have Difadvantage in amending the one, and impairing the other; this is alfo inquirable.

If any Copyholder, contrary to the Custom of the Manor, cut down any Tree which is Timber, without Licence of the Lord; this is a Forfeiture of his Copyhold, and here inquirable. • If any Copyholder, contrary to the Custom of the Manor, hath lopp'd or topp'd any Timber Trees, or other Trees belonging to his Copyhold, whereby the faid Trees may decay or die; this is a Forfeiture of his Copyhold, and here inquirable.

If any Copyholder, according to the Custom of the Manor, hath at any Time, fince the last < Court, furrendred any Copyhold Eftate into the Hands of the Lord's Bailiff, or into the Hands of the Copyholders of this Manor, to the Use of any other Perfon; for upon every fuch Surrender the Lord ought to have a Fine, and the Parties into whofe Hands the Surrender was made, ought to come into the next Court and present the fame Surrender fo taken, and put the fame into the Hands of the Lord, to the Ufe of the Alienee; otherwife fuch Perfon that took fuch Surrender ought to forfeit his Copyhold, for not bringing in the fame, having done what in him lies to make the Lord lofe his Fine, as alfo to dif inherit him to whose Use the Surrender was ⚫ taken.

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And if there be any Thing else that concerns the Lord's Intereft, or any Thing unjustly done between Lord and Tenant, or Tenant and Tenant, you have it in charge to present it.

• But

But not to trouble you with any more Particulars, I give this in general, That whatsoever you know of your own Knowledge to be inquirable and prefentable, you make due Prefentment thereof; and if any Difpute or Difficulty arife, I fhall give you the best Information therein I can,

< And fo I pray, Gentlemen, go together • and confider your Charge.

Charges, The Copyholder which comes in by voluntary Grant, fhall not be fubject to the Charges or Incumbrances of the Lord, before the Grant. 8 Rep. 64. Swain's Cafe.

Lord and Copyholder for Life: The Lord grants a Rent Charge out of the Manor, whereof the Copyhold is Parcel; the Copyholder furrenders to the Ufe of A. who is admitted accordingly, he shall not hold it charged; but if the Copyholder dieth, fo that his Eftate is determined, and the Lord granteth to a Stranger de novo, to hold the faid Land by Copy, this new Tenant fhall hold the Land charged. 1 Leon. p. 4.

Chenes, Otho de Grandifon, John de Walletorte, and Alice his Wife, held the Town of Chenes, by the Serjeanty of finding the King, at his Dinner, on his Coronation-Day, two white Cups. And this is arrented at 8s. Pla. Coron. 19 H. 3. Surry.

Chepin. See Faringdon.

Chesterton, Co. Warwick, Gilbert le Harpour held Lands in Chesterton, of the King by Grand Sérjeanty, viz. to keep the Place call'd Teddefley Hay, within the Forest of Canoke, at his own Coft. Efch. 32 Ed. 1. N. 43.

Chilworth. See Milton.

Chippenham, Co. Wilts. Upon Inquifition taken 19 Ed. 2. it appeared, That the Tenants in Chippenham hold their Tenures there according to the Custom of Ancient Demefne, and plead in the Court there by the King's Writ of Right, according to the Custom of the Manor. Madox's Firma Burgi 248.

Cholmer alias Chelmare, and Danlyng alias Dengy, Co. Essex.

A Grant of them by Edward the Confeffor, to Randolf Peperking.

nures, p. 103.

Che Edward (a) Konyng

Blount's Te

Have geven of my Foreft the Keping

Of the Hundred of Cholmer and Dancing

To Randolf Peperking and to his (b) kindling:
With Heort and Hynd, Doe and (c) Bock,
Hare and Fox, Cat and (d) Brock,
Wild Fowell with his Flock,

Partridge, Fefant Hen and Fefant Cock,
With Green and Wyld Stob and Stock,
To kepen and to (e) Temen by all her might,
Both by Day and eke by Night,

And Hounds for to holde

Gode, and fwift and bolde,

Four Greyhounds and fix (f) Braches
For Hare and Fox and Wild-Cats,
And thereof Iche made him my Book,
Witness the Bishop Wolfton
And bock ycleped many on,

And Sweyn of Effex our Brother,

And teken him many other,

And our Stiward Howelyn,

That byfought (g) me for him.

(a) King. (b) Heirs. (c) Buck. (d) Badger. (e) Hold

(f) A Hound-bitch. (g) Solicited.

Chift-Church. See Elyng.

Claim, Where Custom of a Manor is, that upon the Death of a Copyholder in Fee, his Heir is to come and make his Claim, and be admitted within three several Courts upon three feveral Proclamations; and if the Heir come not, then the Lord to feize them as forfeited: This Custom and Nonclaim fhall not foreclofe the Heir who was beyond Sea at the Time of the Proclamation made; for by the Intendment of Law he cannot have Notice, &c. But if the Heir had been within the Realm at the Time of the firft Proclamation, and after goes beyond Sea, the Proclamation fhall bind him. 8 Rep. Sir Richard Lechford's Cafe, Cro. Jac, 226. Underhill and Kelley.

Claufum fregit.

THO

The Declaration.

HO. A. by E. T. his Attorney, complains of Hugh W. of a Plea of Trespass, &c. for that he the faid Hugh W. the Second Day of June, in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, &c. with Force and Arms, &c. the Clofe of him the faid Tho. A. called, &c. at, &c. within the Furifdiction of this Court, broke into and enter'd, and the Grafs of him the faid Thomas, then and there growing, to the Value of 30 s. with certain four-footed Beafts, to wit, with Horfes, Cows, Hogs and Sheep, trod down, eat up, and confumed, and continued the faid Trefpafs at divers Days and Times, in fo treading down, eating up, and confuming the Grafs of him the faid Thomas, then and there growing, from the Jaid fecond Day of June, in the Year aforefaid, until the fifth Day of July then next following, and other Enormities, then and there to him did, to the grievous Damage of him the faid Thomas, from whence the faid Thomas faith, that he is worse, and bath Damage to the

Value of 39s. 11 d. and thereof he brings his Suit, &c.

Clun, Co: Salop, It is the Cuftom of fome Manors within the Honour of Clun, That at the Entrance of every new Lord of that Honour, the Tenants fhall pay him a certain Sum of Money called Mife-Money, in Confideration whereof they claim to be quit of all Fines and Amerciaments, which are recorded at that Time in the CourtRoll, and not levy'd, which they call White Books. Blount 162.

The Tenants of Clun heretofore paid certain Rents in Meal, called Meal-Rents, to make meat for the Lord's Hounds; but they are now payable in Mcney. Jacob's Law-Dict. Tit. Meal-Rents.

Coal, A Custom is, that the Lord of a Manor may dig for Coals and open Mines in the Land of his Copyholder. It was made a Doubt in Goderick and Gafcoyne's Cafe, if the Leffee of a Manor may have this Liberty, and whether fuch Liberty can pass by Grant of the Manor, without special Words? Latch 189.

A Man grants all the Coals and Coal-mines within a Manor (and Parcel was Copyhold for Life) to J.S. the Leffee enters into the Copyhold, and digs a new Pit in the Copyhold Land, during the Life of the Copyholder, and takes the Coals and converts them, &c. and the Leffee of the Coalmine brought Trover against the Leffor: By the Court, he may do it, for when the Leffor or Leffee of the Coals, or a Stranger enters and digs the Coals out of the Pits, thefe belong to the Leffee; and if any one elfe take the Coal, he fhall have Trover. W. Jones Rep. 244. Player and Roberts.

Coffaro, alias Caffojo Co. Lincoln, Sir Francis Afcue was feifed of this Manor, which extended into two Towns, viz. North and South Kelley, he granted his Manor of North Kelley to H. S. and his