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��fines, and were admitted, like other tenants of the manor, at the courts which did common service as both hundred and manorial courts. For instance, on

15 June 19 Henry VI (1441) Juliana wife of John Savage was admitted ' ad unam parcellam terrae unius cotlonde vocatam Hykemannes,' as heiressof Christiana wife of John Peck, and paid a fine of two shillings, doing fealty. Only six weeks after this, on 27 July 1441, Juliana who was

the wife of John Savage was deceased. There was no heriot, because Juliana had no beast. John her husband was admitted as tenant for life of the 'cotlond,' paying a fine of one shilling and four- pence." The cotholders had perhapo a share in the common fields : on

1 6 March 8 Richard II (1385) John Farnham claimed, as heir, Edward Waterman's land. Ed- ward Waterman was a cotholder, and some of his land lay in campo and some in communi campo. But it is possible that this may have been apart from his cotholding. One of the services of the cot- holders was to convey prisoners to the county gaol at Guildford Castle. This service was due from Waterman's land, and fur- ther he was hangman ap- parently, for after the conveyance of prisoners the words are added et eos suspendet. The convey- ance of prisoners led on one occasion to a mis- adventure which illustrates the lawless action possi- ble in the 1 4th century, though the perpetrator was a Frenchman of Ca- lais, before Calais belonged

��There was no chance then of the guard and prisoners being locked up together, but the county gaol was in Southwark, and the obligation much more burdensome than when it was at Guildford. 13 The question was raised at the same court whether the cotholders were bound to repair the fence of the common pound of Godalming. This seems to differentiate them from the other customary

���to England, in the service of Margaret, the second wife of Edward I. Richard atte Watere of Godalming came to the king's court in 1317 or 1318, and complained that his tenure obliged him to convey prisoners to Guildford Castle from the court at Godalming, and that Andrew de Caleys, constable of the castle of Queen Margaret at Guild- ford, took Richard vi et armis, and shut him up with his prisoners for three months and more, and only let him go on payment of a heavy ransom. It was ordered that the sheriff should produce Andrew to answer to this on the morrow of St. Martin.* 7

The obligation to convey prisoners, at their own proper charges, lay in the cotholders as late as 1670.

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��tenants ; for there was no question that the latter had to repair it. The obligation occurs frequently, and had been affirmed so lately as by the court held on the Monday after St. Matthew 1626." They certainly repaired the fence of the lord's pound or pinfold. 30

Queen Elizabeth incorporated the BOROUGH town by a charter dated 25 January 1574-5," when the cloth trade was flourishing there." The corporate body was to con- sist of the warden (gardlanus) and inhabitants, who were to have the usual right of impleading, and also a common seal. At the same time the queen granted

��* Loseley R. of dates cited.


 * < DC Banco R. Trin. 1 1 Edw. II, m.

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18 t. R. 14 Oct. 22 Chas II.

��M R. in steward's hands.

80 R.patiim; Exch. Min. Accts. 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, Div. Co. R. 64, m. 11.

81 Pat. 17 Eliz. pt. vii, no. 4.

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��81 Though the inhabitants complained of their great poverty ; possibly only for the sake of rhetoric.

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