46 ROLLS OF COURT BARON OF WINTERBORNE WASTE. 



July, 1753, and May, 1750. Most of the abbreviations used in 

 the originals have been extended in these copies. Following 

 these are extracts from the other rolls, and lastly the list of the 

 tenants on the manor and a survey of their tenements made on 

 the death of John Stevins, " Lord of the Manor and farmer." 

 The word farmer is used in the same sense in which the word 

 from which it is derived is used in the Domesday survey. John 

 Stevins farmed the rents, not the land ; he was lessee of the 

 manor and lordship. The true Lords of the Manor were the 

 Dean and Chapter of Exeter, who seem to have exercised some 

 kind of supervision, as on the minutes of two of the courts there 

 is a note "The Deane and Chapter saw this." This dual 

 lordship may have been the cause of the misunderstanding 

 mentioned in the roll of April ijth, 1784, when one tenant 

 refused to attend the court and another tried to prevent the 

 lessee from doing so. The incident is mentioned in its place. 



1673 



The presentment of the homage of the Manor of Winterborne 

 Wast all s Mouncton att ye court Barren held ye 3Oth day of 

 October 1673 viz. 



Imprimis we present that wee doe not know any Tennant 

 deceased since ye last courte. 



Item, we present Elizabeth Pooke widdow for encroaching 

 vppon widd Alic Pooke and Mr. Walker gent ground in ye 

 furland called by ye name of Marie, time is given her to allott 

 back the same unto the said widdow Alic Pooke and Mr. Walker 

 before Michaelmas next one payne of IDS. 



Item we present Thomas Walker gent for sufferinge his stable 

 to be in decay time is given him to repaire the said stable before 

 Midsummer next on paine of 133. 40!. 



John Petty Joseph Bascom 



John Middleton John Blanchard 



George Reade William Read 

 William Middleton 



