First, you shall inquire whether all such persons as owe suit and service to this court be here to do the same; and all that make default you must present.
Also you shall inquire if any tenants be dead since the last court, or before, and his death not yet presented; and you shall inquire what lands he held of these manors, and what is due to the Lord on his death;[4] and also if any copyholder has leased his copyhold for any longer term than a year and a day, without the Lord’s license, it is a forfeiture of his copyhold. And also if any copyholder deny to pay his rent, or deny to come to his Lord’s Court, or deny to be sworn of the homage, it is a forfeiture of his copyhold.
And also you are to present all alienations that you may know among the tenants, who they are, and for what.
You are also to present all such as remove any bounds bounding the lands of these manors and the lands of any other Lord, or between tenant and tenant, or elsewhere in those manors.
You are likewise to present any one that has taken any
goods out of the pound wilfully by force, or any pound-breaker by the way, as they are driven to pound.
You are likewise to present any man that hath fished or fowled in these manors, or hawked or hunted.
And also you are to present any that doth refuse or neglect to grind at the mill of those manors; and if you are not well served, you that are ill dealt with by the miller, he is lyable to be prosecuted, and make satisfaction.
You are to present all tin broken in these manors that hath not paid farme nor toll.
You shall swear by the contents of that Book; that you will be true and faithful to the Lord of those manors, and shall from henceforth bear, do, and pay to your said Lord, and to his heirs, at times assigned, all such rents, customs, and services as you ought to pay, and for all such lands and tenements as you claim to hold of him; So help you God.