COMMON RIGHTS AT STRETHAM 



EXTRACTS FROM A DECREE MADE BY THE COURT 



OF EXCHEQUER TRINITY TERM 5 JAMES I CON- 



FIRMING AN AWARD MADE BETWEEN SIR 



MILES SANDYS LORD OF THE MANOR 



OF STRETHAM (CAMBRIDGE) AND 



THE TENANTS AND COMMON- 



ERS OF THE MANOR. 



And it is alsoe by this Courte ordered and decreede that every Copieholders 

 Copiholder of a yard land Copihold held of the said Manner of U 



Streatham his heiars and assignes shall yearelie well and sufficientlie the Lord: 



plowe, in wheate seede one acre of land once over onelie for the 



said Sir Myles Sandis, his heires and assignes lords of the said 



Manner of Streatham, And in barlie seed one other acre of land 



once over onelie, and accordinge to that proporcion for every 



half yard land to plowe half an acre in wheat seede once 



over onelie, and halfe an acre in Barlie seede once over onelie, 



and accordinge to a greater or lesse proporcion of Copihold 



landes which haue byn parte of the yard or half yard lands 



more or lesse plowinge, They the said Sir Miles Sandis, his 



heires and assignes, lordes of the said manner makinge vnto the 



said Tenantes the vsuall allowances due for the said workes. 



And the Tenantes of the said Copihold howses or Tenementes 



which haue byn accustomed for theire said howses or Tenementes 



to doe certaine workes called pownd Reapes they, theire heires and ^ n ^ 



assignes, shall for ever doe the said workes and in suche manner bee done by 



and sorte as the same haue vsuallie of late byn done the Lordes of th eTennants 



J to the Lord. 



the said manner makinge vnto them the vsuall allowances due for 



the same, and noe other. And that the said Sir Miles Sandis his 

 heires and assignes Lordes of the said Manner of Streatham shall Foldeage of 

 haue the foldage in his and theire fold within the said Mannor Cottagers 

 onelie of such Cottagers sheepe as haue vsuallie folded the same in Lords folde. 



