COULSDON COMMONS. 175 
The Court Rolls are extant from the year 1359, and 
are in Latin, with the usual break for the Common- 
wealth, till 1732. There is an entry in these Rolls 
for the year 1359, showing the dependent state of the 
labouring people of the Manor. It records the payment 
of a fine, apparently by a free tenant, for marrying 
without leave the relict of Adam King, a born bonds- 
man of the Lord of the Manor. Later, in 1363, there 
is an entry of an order given to seize a tene- 
ment into the lord’s hands, because it had been 
acquired by a born bondsman of the lord, without his 
leave. 
In 1762, a careful survey of the Manor showed 
that the waste lands then amounted to 55] acres. Since 
then, Hartley Down, consisting of 150 acres, appears 
to have been inclosed and appropriated by the Lord 
of the Manor. Mr. Byron, after failing to induce 
the Inclosure Commissioners to take proceedings for the 
inclosure of the remaining Commons, entered into 
communication with the principal landowners of the 
Manor, with the object of obtaining their concurrence 
to an inclosure without the sanction of Parliament. 
He encountered strong opposition to this course from 
some of the Commoners, including the Messrs. Hall, 
who subsequently undertook the suit against him. 
He found some willing confederates in other quarters. 
He then broached the idea that the Commons, instead 
of being all parts of the waste of the same Manor, 
where all the Commoners had the right of turning out 
cattle equally upon every part of them, were separate in 
