THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 
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This group of manors calls for little further remark. Some 
change had taken place in them under the Norman occupation ; for 
Weston had advanced in value from ten shillings to thirty j Witelie 
from two shillings to seven and sixpence ; Colrige, formerly waste, 
had become worth fifteen pence. The only falling off was in 
Manadon, from twenty shillings to twelve and sixpence. 
Bocheland, which we identify with Egg Buckland, partly by the 
order in which it occurs, and which had been held by Heche, was 
retained by Judhel in his own hands. It had a population even 
greater than that of Stoke Damerel — ten serfs, ten villeins, and 
eight bordars. But the most interesting fact to us is that it 
possessed a salt-work — a place on the borders of the Laira estuary, 
with any corporate property. This book records the proceedings of the courts 
leet and courts baron of John GifFard and Alice Gitfard, his widow, for the 
manor of " Uletts ffee als Lulytts Sparke als Luletts ffee," with a parcell of 
the manor of Lypston or Lipson. The first court recorded was held 16th 
July, 1st James I. (1603), and the last 13th Charles I. (1638). Though the two 
manors are linked together, and occasionally called "Ulett cum Lypson," yet 
the entries of each are kept so far distinct that we can fairly ascertain what 
the general extent of Uletts Fee was. It certainly reached from Bilbury 
Street to North-hill, and so far east by Briton-side as the Whitefriars. The 
Headlands, otherwise described as " a close by the Maudlyn," was part of the 
manor ; so was Hampton Shute or Close (als Gilwell parke), on part of which 
Charles Church stands ; and so was a certain unnamed close in the occupation 
of Thomazine Gibbons, which we may identify with Gibbons Fields, and 
which, as the rent paid to the lord seems to have averaged 3s. 6d. an acre, may 
be taken as about four acres in extent. No doubt the manor by the date of 
these courts had been to a certain extent dismembered ; for besides Bilbury 
Street and East Cross Street there is mention of a tenement in Looe Street, 
and it is probable therefore that its southern boundary extended at least thus 
far. Moreover the first list of free tenants, under the year 1603, reaches a 
total of thirty-six, all but three of whom are entered as heirs of former 
tenants, while in subsequent years the free tenants do not muster a fourth of 
that number. In the same year there are recorded six conventionary and 
customary tenants for Uletts Fee, and six conventionary tenants for Lipson, 
the gross rental being £5 10s. 5d. A full list of rentals for the year 1619 
shows, however, much better results. In that year the rents payable by the 
free tenants were £1 0s. 9d. yearly, with Is. payable at Michaelmas ; and the 
conventionary tenants paid £22 5s. 8d. The greater portion of this came 
from Lipson, the property wherein extended over 1671" acres. Of this one 
John Collyngs held 100 acres, and had to pay in addition to his rent two 
capons or two shillings yearly at Christmas, while he had abated yearly at 
Michaelmas 13s. 4d., for the high rent of Plympton Grange. Richard Deny 
and Austyn Eliot, two other of the Lipson tenants, had to render a capon 
each yearly, or 18d. 
