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Dulcote in Elizabethan Times

 

 

Land Survey Conducted About 1595

The following survey conducted in Dulcote profiles a tiny community of seemingly less than 10 households who make their livings primarily farming with some lumbering also evidenced.

 

Resident

 Date Land Grant1

Description of Land and Holding

Yearly Rent
"My Lord and Sir William Petre have released their term herein to Sir William Dodington"
Copyholders2 in Dulcote . . .
David Donkerton 2 December, 
37 Elizabeth I (1595)		 one tenement heritable and 18 acres of land meadow and pasture belonging on the lives of himself and John Brock. 
Note added at later date both dead. 		7s 9d
Edith Tike 28 May, 
23 Elizabeth I
(1581)		 widow; one cottage heritable to which belongs 15 acres to have during her widowhood the remainder to John Tike her son for the term of his life. 7s 9d.
William Tither 2 November, 
18 Elizabeth I
(1576)		 one tenement heritable and 26 acres of land meadow and pasture for the term of his life only. 13s 9½d.
Richard Robyns 15 May, 
33 Elizabeth I  (1591)		 holds by copy one tenement heritable and 12 acres of ground belonging on the lives of himself and his sons John and Richard 7s 9d.
Robert Culbery 15 August, 
22 Elizabeth I
(1580)		 one tenement heritable to which belongs 32 acres of land meadow and pasture on the lives of himself and his daughter Agnes.
Note added at later date they have surrendered and the premises were granted again to them and his son Henry by copy 13 July 4 James I. (1607) 		13s 4d.
Robert Carie 1587 inherits land, including grist mill, from Joanne Gallington, his mother 21s 5d.
Robert Wilkins alias Lamparte   one cottage heritable to which belongs 15 acres of land meadow and pasture on the lives of himself and his daughter [unnamed]. 7s 9d.
Elizabeth Hardwike  15 August, 
22 Elizabeth I
(1580)		 one tenement heritable to which belongs 20 acres of land meadow and pasture to have during her widowhood with remainder to John Hardwike. 12s 9d.
Freeholders3 in Dulcote . . .
Lady Powlett4   certain free lands in Dulcote  7¼d.
The Vicars of St Andrews   certain free lands in Dulcote 14½d.
Property to be Let . . .
  1. Eight acres of pasture in Torhill
  2. 8 acres of arable land in the field now in Elizabeth Hardwik’s tenure
  3. One acre of meadow and 35 acres in Torhill in Thomas Lovell’s tenure
 6s 8d
16d
26s 8d.
Woods . . .
Richard Hodges   Kings Castle wood by estimation 35 acres; Tor wood 40 acres; Chilcote woods by estimation 40 acres
Note: The said Hodge sells yearly certain acres limited on his lease. 
It is thought he sells about 200 loads of hard wood for 6s the load and the brush for 3s 4d the load.		 £6 13s 4d.

1   dates in legal documents at this time in history were listed according to the number of years into the reign of the current monarch  
      eg. 1580 would be depicted as "22 Elizabeth I", (that is, 1558, the start of the reign of Elizabeth I + 22 years) 
 2   "copyhold" land was granted at the will of the lord without lease; the grant was established at court and could not be re-leased
3    while all land was owned by the Crown, land held by "freehold" was as close to land ownership as possible; it could be leased at the will of the freeholder.
4    Earl and Lady Powlett made their home in Sampford Barton, Devonshire.  There is a monument to Lady Powlett at St. John Church, Samford-Peverall, dated 1602.