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Tenants of Laughton Manor, by Jane Biggs, published June 2008 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 2, article, p.93) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508969] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
Preview:On 10 June 1543, Nicholas PELHAM, Lord of the Manor of Laughton signed an agreement between himself and Sir John GAGE, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and the tenants of the Manor, regarding their Right and Title to Column of Pasture in the Vertwood alias Old Broyle.
Common of Pasture gave the tenants the right to graze their animals on the Common, to gather firewood from the woods (they were not allowed to chop the trees down or cut branches off, but could take any dead wood they could gather "by hook or by crook"), and to let their pigs into the wood in the Autumn to eat the fallen acorns, on payment of fees known as Pannage.
Part of the Vertwood had been enclosed by Sir William PELHAM, father of Nicholas, causing riots. (See my article 'At the Court of Star Chamber in Sussex Family Historian, June 2005). He had made a verbal agreement wills the tenants which was now formalised by a written agreement.
Common of Pasture gave the tenants the right to graze their animals on the Common, to gather firewood from the woods (they were not allowed to chop the trees down or cut branches off, but could take any dead wood they could gather "by hook or by crook"), and to let their pigs into the wood in the Autumn to eat the fallen acorns, on payment of fees known as Pannage.
Part of the Vertwood had been enclosed by Sir William PELHAM, father of Nicholas, causing riots. (See my article 'At the Court of Star Chamber in Sussex Family Historian, June 2005). He had made a verbal agreement wills the tenants which was now formalised by a written agreement.