54 COURT ROLIS OF THE MANOR OF HOLMESFIELD. 



assize of bread and ale, persons keeping alehouses without license, 

 false weights and measures, unlawful games, offences relating to 

 game, idle persons, brawling women, etc. The lord of the leet 

 was to provide a pillory and tumbrel to punish offenders, and for 

 want thereof was either fined, or his liberty withdrawn, as may be 

 seen in the " Placita de Quo Waranto" {vide Law Dkiioiiaries of 

 Jacob and Blount, Spelman s Gloss., etc.). 



At the compilation of Domesday Survey the Manor of 

 Holmesfield belonged to the Deincourts, and continued in that 

 family unto the death of William Deincourt in the reign of 

 Henry VI. One of his sisters and co-heirs married Sir Will. 

 Lovell, and on the attainder of his son, Francis Lord Lovell, in the 

 reign of Henry VH., this manor was granted to Sir John Savage, 

 from whose descendant it was purchased in 1586. {Lysons.) As 

 a Sir John Savage held the Manor in 1580 (Rolls), and Sir John 

 Manners in 1 606 (Rolls), probably we have here the names of the 

 actual vendor and purchaser. 



{Translation and Abstract.) 



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 rpcnfecoBf iw i9)t xx- geor of (]Ktng (gbruorb tu. (A.D. 1480-1.) 



Roger Elott sought to be admitted tenant of divers lands and 

 tenements formerly William Webster's and Agnes his wife, as 

 the next heir of the said Agnes. 



Cecily, wife of Thomas Mylner, sought to be admitted to the 

 above-mentioned lands, etc., by virtue of a surrender of the 

 said lands made to John Wattes, Thomas Cooke, and other 

 tenants, by the said William Webster and Agnes his wife, to 

 the use of the aforesaid Cecily after the decease of the said 



CCa William and Agnes : upon which came John Wattes, and 

 testified to the same surrender before Robert Eyre, Esq., 

 Seneschal of the Court, 



Thomas Cooke and Richard Schawe also came and desired 

 admission to the same lands, etc., by virtue of a surrender 

 made to William Brokehouse, a tenant of the manor, in the 



