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EVery Mauour hath a Court Baron inci∣dent to it, of common right, and com∣mon necessity, and this Court Baron con∣sisteth of foure speciall parts viz. The Lord, the Steward, the Tennants, and the Bayliffe.
A Court Baron is defined to bee an assem∣blie of these partes together, within the
said Mannour, to take Councell, care, and en∣quire of causes concerning the same Man∣nour: to see justice duely executed, the acts and ordinances there done to bee recorded in the Roles of the same Court, which Roles are the evidence of all ordinances du∣tyes, customes, and conveyances, the Lord and Tennants of the said Mannour, and are to bee entred by the Steward or an Officer indifferent betweene the Lord and his Ten∣nants, and the same Roles to remaine with the Lord, thereby to know his Ten∣nants, his Rents, and his Fines, his Customes, and his services.
And the particular grant of every Coppy∣hold, to bee coppyed out of the Roles, the coppyes thereof to bee delivered to every particular Tennant, neither can they make any other Title to their said Ten∣nements, but by their said Coppy.
If the Lord of the Mannour having Coppy-hold Lands Surrendred into his hands, will in the presence of his Ten∣nants out of the Court, grant the same to an other, and the Steward en∣treth the same into the Court Booke, and maketh thereof a Coppy to the
grantee, and the Lord dye before the next Court, this is no good Coppy to hold the Land.
But if the same Surrender, and grant bee presented at the next Court, in the life of the Lord, and the grantee admitted Tenant, and a Coppy made to him, this is good Coppy.
If the Lord of a Mannour having ancient Coppy-hold in his hands, will by a deed of Feofment, or by a Fine grant this Land to one to hold at the will of the Lord, according to the Custome, yet this cannot make a good Coppy-hold.
If the Lord in open Court doth grant a Coppy-hold Land, and the Steward maketh no entry thereof in the Court Roles, this is not good, though it bee never so publicke done, nor no Collaterall proofe can make it good.
But if the Tenant have no Coppy made unto him out of the Role, or if hee loose his Coppy, yet the Roles is still a sufficient tytle for his Coppy-hold, if the Roles bee al∣so lost, yet it seemeth that by proofe
hee can make this good.
If Ordinances or by Lawes bee new∣ly made, and Recorded in the Roles of the Court, if the Court Roles bee lost, the by Lawes be set at liberty, yet if there be any an∣cient customes or priviledges by Prescriptions not entred in the Roles, &c. though the Roles be lost, yet they remaine good.