vii] The Tenants and their Land. 1400 — 1575. 95 



The Hulle Family. Representatives of the three generations 

 of this family, living in the latter part of the fifteenth century, 

 held respectively two messuages and \y\ acres, two messuages 

 and 28 acres, and 25 acres. In 1501 the son of the last of these 

 tenants sold his land, remained in Forncett with the rector, and 

 paid chevage till his death in 1503. 



In the latter half of the fifteenth century two bondmen, and 

 in the sixteenth century two or three bondmen, of whom one 

 was poor, also paid chevage. 



The Lound Family. A tenant of this name died in 1447, seized 

 of eight acres. The land passed to his daughter, who was poor. 



In 1 40 1 it was ordered to attach a serf of this name who was 

 in Norwich. 



Between 1472 and 1556 five serfs paid chevage. Of these one, 

 who died in 1 540, is said to have been very poor ; another, who died 

 the following year, had chattels valued at ^65. yd. 



In 1555 Thomas Lound, dwelling in Martham, paid chevage 

 for the last time. However, it would appeac that he, or possibly 

 a descendant, was living in Martham twenty years later, for in 1575 

 Sir Henry Lee claimed Thomas Lound of Martham as a bondman, 

 and doubtless compelled him to buy his freedom \ 



The Palle Family. In 1404 account is rendered of the issue 

 of one acre 'quam Robertus Palle recusavit tenere et reliquit in 

 manus domini.' In 1405 Robert Palle, nativtis, surrendered two 

 acres to the use of another tenant. In a roll of 1432 it is recorded 

 that one acre that had escheated upon the death of Robert Palle 

 nativus without heir, had been let to farm. 



The Pelet Family. In the fifteenth century some six tenants of 

 this name held small amounts of land — from four to eight acres. 

 One tenant also leased 12^ acres, and afterwards his son leased 

 the same. Later 14 acres of demesne meadow were also leased 

 by a father and son. In 1500 but one member of this family 

 held land of Forncett. He was seized of four messuages and 

 24 acres. Three of his sons were tenants, but two of them at 

 least, and probably all three, alienated their land. The last to 

 hold land of Forncett 'surrendered' it in 1527, and soon thereafter 

 * fled ' to Essex. He paid no chevage, and we may perhaps assume 

 that by his flight he freed himself from all the ties that had bound 

 him to Forncett manor. 



Between 1405 and 1527 nine or ten serfs paid chevage. 



^ See above, p. 92, and Appendix XIV. 



