¶ THE Charge of the Court Baron,  
Imprinted at London by John Cawood, printer to the queens Majesty.  

Cum Privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.   
Anno. M.D.LXI.   

The Charge of the Court Baron.  
first ye good men that be sworn, ye shall inquire and truly present all the suitors that own any suit unto this court at this day, for there tenors if they be here or no, and present there names, that make default.  
Also if there be any tenant deed, sithen the last law day, ye shall inquire of him, and do us to weet, what he held of this lordship, at the day of his death, and what advantage the Lord should have by his death, as ward marriage, relief fine, or estchete, or any other profit, and who is his next heir, and what age he is of and in whose keeping.  
Also if there be any rent, custom, or service withdrawn from this lordship, that aught of right to be done, ye shall inquire by whom it is withdrawn, and what custom or service it is, and in what bailiffs time, and how long it hath been wythholdenne. And where the land lieth that we may distran for the arrearages that are behind.  
Also if there be any bond of blood, that putteth his son to school, to make him a priest, or a prentice, or setteth him to craft or marrieth his daughter without leave, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if there be any bond man that letteth his land for the half, or for the third sheaf, without leave, or else if there be any bond man that with draweth his goods, or chattles, out of this lordship without leave ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if the Lords common be so charged by any tenant, with more beasts than he should after the quantity of his tenure, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if there be any bondman of blood that longeth to this lordship▪ that is fled and dwelleth with out this lordship, without fine or ransom making, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if there be any alination over twelve months and a day, or lease for term of years in fee, or fee tail, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if there be any transmutation of possession, that is to say, copy land for free land, or free land for copy land, whereof the lord might take any disadvantage in amending of the one, and paring of the other, also of all manner of waist done in howesing, letting down or cutting the great timber, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also of all trespassers, in corn, grass, or pasture, groves, or meadows, or fishers or fowlers or hunters, or haukers, within this Lordship or lords warren, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if there be any tenant of copy hold, tenant at will, or tenant of bond tenure, that suffer their tenants to be ruinous, and fall down, or else any fermer, bounden to reparation, repair not as he ought to do, do us to wit.  
Also if there be any bond man of blood, within this Lordship, that purchaseth any free land, without leave or licence, ye shall do us to weet, what he is, and what heir he hath.  
Also of all other things that ye have known, that ought to be presented to the Lords avail, ye shall do us to weet by the oaths ye have made, and bring in a true presentment.  
Also if any make any rescus, or break any rest made by the bailiff, or any other officer or else if any man break the lords pound, that is to say a distress put in the lords pound by an office, and taken out again without licence.  
Also if you know any that removeth or pulleth up mere stones, or stakes between lordship, and lordship, or tenant, and tenant, whither it be bond or free, present their names.  
Also if any tenant give any land to the Church, that is to say, to mortmayne sith the Statute thereof was made without licence of the Queen, and the Lord of this lordship, ye shall do us to wit.  
Also if any man have encroached any of the lords soil, that is to say, Land, meadow, more, pasture, or any vacant ground without licence of the lord, present there names.  
Also if any man hold two tenementens, and wasteth the one, as if he withdrew any trees from the one to the other, if ye know any such present there names by your oath.  
Also if any tenant, have made any stripe or waist upon his bond tenement, Stripe, that is to say, pulling of up trees, or hedges, waist is to say, letting houses to fall down, for default of reparations, if there be any such, present them.  
Also, if ye know any tenant that withdraweth or keepeth the evidence that longeth to this lordship, Court Rolls, rental, Customaryes, or any other evidence present them.  
Also, if any have with their cattle, for charged or overlain any common, within the precinct of this manner, or any part or parcel of the same, there are four several commons, that is to say, comen Appendent, Common appertenant, Common in gross, and Percause de Visinage: If any of you pretend to have Common Appendent to any part of your frehold and to common under that nature of common, then measured to a certain number, that is, as many beasts, as the fodder or profits of your corn reacheth unto, sustain and find in winter, so many may you keep in the common in summer, if any of you have alienation of frehold, where unto you pretend to have this common, your interest passeth therewith. Anno xiiii. Hen. iiii. Fol. iii. aswell you may have this common in any water or other void place, whereupon may rise any commodity, or other advantage, for a common wealth, as turfs, or otherwise incident or belonging to any part of your common, as it appeareth. Anno. xiiii. E. iiii. And this common serveth for beasts conveniable: And where any of you pretend to have any Common appertenant, or common in Grose, these commons differ that there be not a measurable, but that every tenant may at his pleasure put in his cattle, without admesurment, and these commons serveth as well for beasts conveniable as other, & is most commonly by prescription: And the Common Percause de Visinage, is whereas two towns, or two manors are adjoining and have used time out of mind, to entre common with their cattle in the waste fields, or other grounds, next adjoining and is also by prescription.  
Also if the Lord have any villain as bondmen or neyffes incident or belonging to his manner, so that any of them dwell or inhabit out of the precinct or limits of this his manor, with that it be within the year and the day, next or immediately after his or their departing, at the Lords bailiff, or other office, may recease him or them again to the lords use and behoof.  
Also, and if any such villain have inhabited, or dwelled out of the precinct of this manor, a hole year and a day in any fraunchysed town, or other liberty, that lords bailiffs, can take no lawful seizure of him during such time as he abideth in the same liberty, but at his next coming to recease him.  
Also if any vyllan there be inhabited within this manner or else where, that without the assent of the Lord, hath married any of his daughters to any free man, so that by such marriage the lords inheritance is hindered or denied, it is contrary to the statute thereof made, or if any vyllan hath put his child to school, or made him a priest, there ought no villain so to do, with out the assent of the Lord.  
Also, & if any of the Lords villains therebe that sense the last court, have purchased any freehold, give it in knowledge that the lords officer, before any alienation by the same vyllan, made, may take lawful seizure of it, to the use and behove of the lord: If any alienation be, before any claim or other seizure be made by the Lord, it shall bare the Lord for the seizure after, but if it be the queens case, Quia nullum tempus occurris Regi.  
Also of all them that be harm doers in the lords woods, springs, hedges, rows or otherwise within the manor, or those that be harm doers in the Lords general fields, enclosures, meadows, pastures, or in any other fields, within the lordship.  
Also of all Dyches, Lanes, and buy ways, that are not well and sufficiently repaired, scoured, and amended, and all bows, branches, and other trees, that over lie and overhangeth any of them, how long they have been suffered where and in whole default.  
Also of all those that use and daily accostome to hunt, or hawk within this Lordship, to th'intent to destroy the Lords warren, or other game within this manner, or they that use to take pheasants, Partryges, or Quales, with whatsoever ingen it be, it is inquirable and finable by the statute, there ought no man to keep any greyhound, or hound, but if he may dispend freely xl. s. Per Annum.  
Also if any copyholder have made any surrender out of this court, sense the last law day by whose hands it was made, and to what use, and present it.  
Also, of all these, and of all other things, that you have knowledge of, that ought to be presented in this court to the Lords avail, you shall go together, and bring in a true presentment.  
FINIS.