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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- I SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
- II SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
- III COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
- IV COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
- V COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
- VI WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
- VII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
- VIII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
- IX WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
- I Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
- II Domesday entry of Coker
- III Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
- IV A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
- V Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
- VI (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
- VII Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
- VIII Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
- IX The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
- X Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
- XI Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
- XII (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
- XIII West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
- XIV (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
- XV Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
- XVI Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838, with past variations and probable meanings
- INDEX
- Plate section
VIII - WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- I SOUTH SOMERSET IN EARLY AGES
- II SOUTH SOMERSET IN SAXON AND DANISH TIMES
- III COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NORMAN KINGS
- IV COKER IN THE TIME OF THE DE MANDEVILLES (circa 1140–1308)
- V COKER IN THE TIME OF THE FIRST COURTENAYS (1308–1391)
- VI WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE LATER COURTENAYS (1391–1442)
- VII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE NEW MEN (1556–91)
- VIII WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE PORTMANS (1591–1727)
- IX WEST COKER IN THE TIME OF THE BERKELEY PORTMANS (1728–1829)
- I Abstract from Domesday Book giving tenure of lands in the neighbourhood of Somerton, T.R.E. and T.R.W.
- II Domesday entry of Coker
- III Extracts from Neustria Pia with reference to the claim of St Stephen's Abbey, Caen, to have been granted the Manor of Coker
- IV A bailiff's account of the Manor of West Coker, 1309
- V Extent of East Coker Manor, 1321
- VI (i) Assessments for a twentieth, 1 Edward III, for East Coker and West Coker
- VII Accounts of West Coker Manor: (i) 1422; (ii) 1425
- VIII Indictment of persons charged with burning down George Middleton's house at West Coker on 1 September 1457
- IX The Coker family out of south Somerset, 1285–1498
- X Abbot Beere's survey of abbey lands in West Coker, 1507
- XI Accounts of West Coker Manor, 1527
- XII (i) Assessments for fifteenths and tenths for East Coker and West Coker, 10 Edw. III to 39 Eliz
- XIII West Coker cases of debt or trespass in the Court of Common Pleas. From Trinity 1597 to Trinity 1604
- XIV (i) Assessments for subsidies 13, 35 and 39 Eliz., 18 Jac. I, 3 and 16 Car. I, 13 and 15 Car. II, for West Coker
- XV Deliveries of West Country canvas, 1634–72
- XVI Numbers and names of fields in West Coker from the Map and Schedule annexed to the Tithe Agreement of 1838, with past variations and probable meanings
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
JOHN, FIRST BARONET, 1591–1612
In the last third of the reign of Elizabeth, a number of changes in the ownership of land took place in West Coker, of which we have knowledge through an Act that had been passed in 1535 ‘concerning inrolments of bargaines and contracts of lands and tenements’, to the effect that no estate of inheritance or freehold or any use thereof should be conveyed by bargain or sale ‘except the same bargaine and sale be made by writing indented, sealed and inrolled’ (that is, officially copied on a roll of parchment) ‘in one of the king's courts of record at Westminster, or else within the same countie or counties where the same manors, lands or tenements so bargained and sold lie or be…the same inrolment to be had and made within six months next after the date of the same writings indented’. In the course of time lawyers, as we shall see later on, succeeded in defeating the intention of this Act, which was to secure that land should be dealt with by the public registration of deeds. Such registration, however, has given us a useful record of deeds, affecting land in West Coker, enrolled by the clerks of the peace of the county of Somerset between the years 1591 and 1601. The names of the parties to these and certain other documents enable us to trace in the first instance who lived in the village during this decade and presently the ownership of property there.
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- The Annals of West Coker , pp. 233 - 366Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1957