especially moving have alienated granted bargained sold enfoffed* and confirmed these p(re)sents do fully clearly and absolutely Alien grant bargain sell enfoff*
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* I'd like to see these words more clearly, as it is very difficult to make the letters out - I think there may be another letter in there.
Usually these Feoffment documents referred to being
enfeoffed or to
enfeoff, standard wording, so I am fairly confident these were the intended spellings, despite the image being partly unreadable.
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What might be more interesting for the original poster, is to see if the place where their Ancestors lived or held this property was a Manor and look to see if they Served on the Manor Court, or owed Suit to the Manor Court. Look in documents called
Court Rolls or the
Court's Baron of the local Manor. The Court Rolls were membranes usually affixed at the top by cord etc., and then usually rolled up.
Manor documents can be very useful for the Family Historian, because both Rented and Copyhold property might pass to a Son or other Relation and that is occasionally stated.
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My Ancestors were one of the
Copyholders sometimes called
Customary Tenants. A little bit like Freehold (you could inherit or sell/buy Copyhold), except that the transfer of
Copyhold ownership was conducted by and registered in the local Manor Court.
I understand that when a Property Transfer took place at the Manor Court of my Ancestors, it was the Custom to hold a piece of Straw and my Ancestors were also
Admitted to the Manor as
Customary Tenants, the price was confirmed as paid to the Seller and the property ownership was then transferred to my Ancestor and it was entered on the Manor Court Rolls and signed by the parties at the Court.
Some Copyholders had to pay a Fine (if levied) at Transfer, usually being a fraction (percentage) of the property value. So if an Ancestor was recorded as
paying a fine to the Manor, the Ancestor could simply be involved with a property Transfer.
Several of my Ancestor Family served on the 'Manor of Selby' Court and are listed as Jurors to that Manor Court.
Mark