THE MANOR OF ABNEY. 



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They lay a pain that if Henry Furnes doe not make up his fence at Wall 

 head sufficient and good before the twentieth day of March next and soe 

 continue the same he shall forfeit for his neglect ... ... ... iijs 



They lay a pain that if any person sleatel or chase sheep upon ye 

 Commons of this Mannor with doggs or otherwise shall forfeite for every 

 ofTence ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xijd 



They lay a pain that if any of the inhabitants of Abney or Grange doe 

 or shall digge or delve Turfe upon any white ground within the Mannor 

 except for Clods2 to cover their houses shall forfeit for every offence iij iiijd 



IV. — Fifteen years elapsed before the next Great Court Baron 

 of the manor of Abney was held. In the meantime, a change 

 had taken place in the owners. 



Francis Bradshaw never lived to hold a Court Baron in his 

 own person as lord. He died, at the age of twenty-three, on 

 29th December, 1677, and was succeeded by his brother John, 

 who was born 27th June, 1656, and who, April, 1683, held 

 his first Court Baron. He died in his seventy-first year at 

 Brampton, co. York, and wajs succeeded by his only surviving 

 son, George Bradshawe — the last of the Bradshawes, of Bradshaw. 

 The following is the last evidence of a Court Baron being 

 held at Abney: — 



Great Court Baron of John Bradshawe armiger Lord of the Manor 

 held there for that Manor 23rd April in the 35th year of Charles II. 

 (1683) 



In the presence of George Lee Gentleman Steward 



Thomas Bocking 

 William Lowe 

 Robert Barker 

 John Bomford 

 Robert Redfern 

 Peter Furness 

 Arthur Worrell 



Jurors 



Robert Howe 

 Clement Marshall 

 Francis Barker 

 Thomas Daykeyne 

 Thomas Drable 

 Robert Bamforth 



Jurors 



Which said Jurors being sworn,. say on their oath and present that Thomas 

 Eyre Esqr, Richard Wheawood Robert Middleton sen' John White Robert 

 Marshall Thomas Morton Edmund Hall Thomas Eyre Thomas Hall senr 

 Richard Bocking Abraham Crossland Thomas Bamforth George Bomford 

 William Bomford Thomas Worrall Eliseus Winterbotham Francis Towns- 

 end Peter . . . Robert Bagshaw owe suits to this Court have not appeared 

 but have made default thereof Each one therefore is in the mercv of 

 the Lord ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ijd 



Fines imposed 

 They present that Ellis Slater of Hardlemere pastured and fed his 



1 To slate a beast is to hound a dog at him to bait him. 



' To this day small fowl-houses are occasionally roofQ(l with turfs at Abney. 



