Court Baron of Ross Foreign : No.7

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The Manor of Ross forreign[1], to wit At The Special Court Baron of the knight honourable Thomas Lord Viscount Weymouth[2], Baron Thynne of Warminster in the County of Wilts, Lord of the said Manor there holden in and for the said Manor on the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1789. Before John Holder, Gentleman, Chief Steward there amongst other things there, it is thus Inrolled.

The homage: Thomas Wardwick, Gentleman, and Joseph Terret.

At this Court came Jane Clarke, Spinster, by Thomas Phillips of Ross in the County of Hereford, Gentleman, her Attorney for that purpose Lawfully constituted, and prayed to be admitted Tenant as Eldest sister and customary Heir of Alicia Clarke, Spinster, her late Sister deceased, to all that piece or parcel of Meadow Ground called or known by the name of Wheeler's Meadow, with the appurtenances situate and being within the said Manor and adjoining to Little Ham on the south, to a Meadow called the Stocking on the West, and to the Little leason[3] on the North parts thereof; And also all those two parcels of arrable Land lying in the lower part of a field called Stony Land, one part whereof containeth one Acre and an half more or less, and the other parcel thereof containeth one Acre more or less; And also all that parcell of arable land lying between the lands heretofore of Walter Cubberly[4] containing one Acre more or less, with the appurtenances, which premisses are lying and being within the said Manor; To whom the Lord of the said Manor by his said Steward hath granted Admission to the premisses by her said Attorney; To have and to hold the same premisses with the appurtenances unto the said Jane Clarke and her heirs or suis according to the custom of the said Manor. Yielding and paying therefore yearly at the usual times there to the Lord of the said Manor the rent of five Shillings of lawfull British money, Suit of court, and all other charges, rents and Services therefore due and of right accustomed, and the said Jane Clarke paid to the Lord Five pounds as a Fine; for such her Estate in the premisses is by her said Attorney admitted Tenant thereto, and hath Seizin thereof by the rod. But her fealty is respited until …

In testimony where of the Steward above named hath to this copy of court roll set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.

John Holder

Steward there


Notes

  1. Ross Forreign – presumably "Ross Foreign", a manor in the viscinity of Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. Its exact location has yet to be ascertained. The manors of Eardisland and Ross in Herefordshire were part of the inheritance of Lady Frances Devereux (d.1674), the elder daughter of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, that Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, succeeded to in 1692 through his marriage to Lady Frances' granddaughter, Lady Frances Finch (1650-1712).
  2. Thomas Thynne – Thomas Thynne (1734-1796), fourth Baron Thynne of Warminster, third Lord Viscount Weymouth, and first Marquis of Bath.
  3. Little leason – "leason" is apparently a transcription error for "leadon" ("s" and "d" being very similar in written form), presumably referring to a tributary of the River Leadon. The Leadon flows past Ledbury (which takes its name from the river), and through Dymock, until it reaches the Severn just north of Gloucester. I have not found any references to a stream called the "Little Leadon".
  4. Walter Cubberley – the Cubberley surname derives from the village of Cubberley (now Coberley) in Gloucestershire, and during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Cubberleys were to be found living in Ross on Wye, Hereford, Chichester, Upton on Severn and Birlingham (in Worcestershire).

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