[512] On this point see English Hist. Review, vol. viii. p. 296.
[513] Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i. The surveyor is Humberstone.
[514] Calendar of Proceedings in Chancery in the Reign of Ed. VI., vol. i. p. cxxxvii.: “To the Right Honourable Sir Richard Riche, Kt., Lord Riche and Lord Chancellor of England. In humble wise sheweth and complaineth unto your lordeshippe your daley orator Richard Cullyer of Wymondham ... yeoman, and John Cullyer his son,” that whereas they “were admitted tenants (of 20 acres) to hold the same to them and their heirs ... and contynued seased of the said 20 acres as of fee, as tenants at will, by copy of Court Roll" now “Thomas Knyvett, Esq. ... of late claimed 10 acres of the said 20 acres to be the demeanes of the said manor.” Knyvett (i.) answers, “The said lond ys and have been tyme out of mynde parcell of the demeanes of the moytie of the said manor of Cromwell." (ii.) Denies that “the premises have been used to be dymytted or be dymittable by copie of Court Roll for term of lyfe or lyves as in fee"; on the contrary “yt may appear that the same have been letten by term of yeres.”
[515] In 1548 an Act was passed “for the assurance to the tenants of graunts and leases made for the Duke of Somerset’s demesne lands.” It begins, “Whereas of truth noe custom or usage can or maye by the lawes of this realm be annexed or knytt to any meases, lands, tenements, or hereditaments letten by copye of Court Roll ... albeyt those words 'secundum consuetudinem manerii,' be rehearsed and expressed in the saide Court Rolle or coppie had or made, except that the same meases, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, so letten be of olde customarie or coppieholde land, and have byn used by all the tyme whereof memory of man is not to the contrary to be letten or demysed by copie of court roll."
[517] Hist. MSS. Com., Cd. 3218, p. 74. Inquisition of February 20, 1308.
[518] Northumberland County History, vol. v. p. 282.
[519] Crondal Records (Baigent), Part I. p. 177.
[520] Northumberland County History, vol. viii.
[521] Acts of the Privy Council, vol. xiii. pp. 91–92, 1581. The justices are to decide “if they thinke it agreeable with equite and justice that the poore man should be put in possession of the said landes."