1652 Occupier List
List of Copyholders First Half of 17th Century (1630/40)
Compiled by Mike Stanbrook
COPYHOLDERS
Nicholas Lewis
John Robins
Edith Smith
Mary Dorney
Joan Vidler
Richard Howell
Arthur Smith
Richard Lawford
Alice Blanch
Thomas Lawford
Elizabeth Dorney
Kath Dorney
Robert and Dorothy Lawford
William Lawford
Maio Walter
Robert Maws
Thomas Vidler
Thomas Foarmaves?
John Foarmaves?
LEASEHOLDERS
William Books
Richard Merrick
Mary Howells
John Burrnell
John Brown?
William Millett
Abraham Attwood
William Mortimer –Tenant
Samual Booth
William Cook
UNSPECIFIED
Thomas Horley
Robert Bennett
John Collins
William Swift
22 Copyholders
8 Leaseholders
3 Tenants
4 Unspecified
This is a true copy of a particulars fo the yearly value of every mans lands in Stoke Gifford in ya county of Glous for
Tho. Lawford
Tho. Joaham
A. Smith
John Beams
20 Jan. 1652
Editors note. Copyhold was a
form of land holding that existed between a lord of a manor and his tenants.
Defined as a “holding at the will of the lord according to the custom of the
manor.” It originated in the occupation by villeins, [not freemen] of parcels of
land belonging to the feudal lord ‘s manor. Over time it became an occupation by
right, called villenagium, which was first recognised by custom and then became
law. In 1926 all copyhold land became freehold land, usually without the mineral
or sporting rights retained by the lord of the manor. The title deeds would be
copies of parts of the court rolls of the manor. So it was title by copy of
court roll and hence ;copyhold;