58 MANOR AND PRIORY COURTS OF CRANBORNE. 



what they did. On three or four occasions there 

 are admissions of tenants to holdings within the 

 Priory tithing, and on 25 Oct., 1728, five men 

 separately swore allegiance to the King (George 

 II.), the only instance here of an unusual ceremony, 

 seeing that the Sovereign had then been on the 

 throne for some sixteen months. 



6. The Honour Court was chiefly concerned with the 

 settlement of claims by one resident against 

 another, generally in the form of a plea of trespass 

 on the case. An example in 1730 may be cited, 

 when the court had to seize the effects of an 

 obstinate defendant and deprive him of a hayrick, 

 a sorel mare, a kettle, and two pewter dishes, of 

 the total value of fifty shillings, forming a some- 

 what miscellaneous haul. 



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When there was a difficulty in obtaining officers the task of 

 finding a suitable man was sometimes thrown upon the 

 female copyholders, as in 1732, when an unsympathetic jury 

 of males ordered a woman to forfeit 2 for non-compliance 

 with such an order. 



The authority delegated to the Steward was only on one 

 occasion publicly slighted by a tenant, who " behaved himself 

 in a contemptuous and abusive manner " and used strong 

 language ; for this offence he had to make submission in open 

 court, coupled with a contribution to the manorial exchequer. 

 A list of place names, and another of the more uncommon 

 surnames now follow : 



PLACE NAMES. 



Attrill's, Andrew's, Aker's, Bolehill, Benson's Hide, Bertley, 

 Brangwens, Buck Lane, Bull Hill, Broadcroft, Butt acre, Clark's, 

 Crindal clay pits, Chaters gate, Daggons, Double St., Edmunds, Green 

 Hayes, Great Waste, Hutchins down proud, Homeliving, Hendings, 

 Hunts, Holden, Heywood, Heathgate, Hare lane, Kickapase, Knapped 

 barrow, Lemon's croft. Little longclose, Mill downs, New drove, 



