The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-04 00:00:00

I.RI Twrena OF LAND.

In the form of • hitter to Chuides Wren Mookyna.
Ego., one of cur most enlightened Agrimaltural
Reformers, Mr. Arthur Mortlake, of Waldo°, luta
rubl:ab.d a most totermoing and valuable treaties on
the Trans,. rof Land. The complain.. of iuyestors,
and tic greed of the Ultra-ltadiealc, might both homer,
Mr. Ku glair suggests, if the cheep and rapid old
custom of copyholds were made I. In the
Manor Ceti; ts we have at one, • handy resiatry and
en
easy inexpensive mode of conveyance. For nearly
• Quarter of a century Mr. Kicelake obtained
familiarity with the mitosis of • Manor Court by
amiating his father ID the affairs of the Masser of
Taunton Dean. and here is • pleasant et ity taken
from life, most ably told, and showing how hale is his
principle :
" Looking cot with the rtstlemnere of • 'duping'
towards the street I beheld two respeetable.looking
men of the tenant farmer clue, well dreceed—broad•
nloth without and warm heart within—' hitching up
their bones to • little wicket gate. just a (so sari.
beyond the public highway.' Like 'John Gilgit's'
sire they evidently proeessed frugal minds, and
thought, perhaps wisely, that their steeds would do
DO well in the epos air as in a crowded stable, with
the aiyantage of dispensing with the amigos of the
cetkr of the neighbouring inn. Presently I hear
loud einele kuoth at the door. The lismou,ted horse.
men ester.

They wore fine looking fellow,. I can see them now,
tapping their ose-sptured boote. not with ordiney
whips, but ground ash *epilogs, of almost Wincheeter
stoutness. A 'beep dog, the oonstant frieod of this
rerun r, to sunahlao or in sorrow, bed put la an appear.
ante, and fanned a pleturesque member of Ito lard
congress. I mould bitt., doesribe this folleaing some
In Ito Memsreetahke ellsiest, but to you this world be
nu unknown tongue. Approaching
eisiiiirs I reeognised Farmer Lei/Janda it: el Farmer
iloldfast, and requested them to be *solid, well know.
ing ly th• exposition of their ecutitensoceu that they
bad some littlis land matter to settle, in wnish I should
probably have to play a prominent% part. Fenner
Lowelends, without much preface', miters into • private
domestic sdaire,'and tolls me of hit daughter's approach-
ing marriage with • youthful butcher, ',Web bag
nrooessitated • mortgage of hie property, the menial
lover requiring £lOO for tit* purasse of • ready-andel
beef and titt.a busbies., and that wheel the mosey is
fathom:dog the contracting parties et• prepared to
became. owe fiesb. Then be goes on to tell me that be
I se • oleo pled* of freehold lased in lb.' not far
from ' Burgewater,' which be could mortgegia or tell
to-morrow •if no minded,' but then he should hare to
employ an attorney, who might drew • long olcod,
tovolying the possibility of a itiil loiter bill. rob, sleets
to tome to the Manor Office, to company only with hi.
frietd and neighbour Fenner Holdfatt. oho las
promised to lead him tier rotted rim of 1:100, at 4
per °rot., on mortgage of hi. eopybold air...tie:a and
tenement galled ' Rutty Mead. Farmer Lovel.nds
then begs me to in pare the security, and not be more
than at. hour •it tie work, as ti • 'hay wee about,' and
'the glen upon the tell. Liston to this oily. con
veyancon of Lino lee-Ito and Chancery-lane and tell
me what thir.k you of this presumptions le:adorn* ,
who ram eta his tiCeto be nentigetod, and • mortgage,
pit pared In one boor! Whew month the power to
do this mighty deed! Shall I conquer or fall I Am I
•coal to the ecorsidn ! Labour was mann to me then,
ms it now is. I accept the poettion. With the rapidity
of thought I pass into tie rejoining fireproof munimenl
room, th• thick walls of whim), audits iro•-cased doge,
would almost resin a Bostoo firs.

Within the uchtves, carefully preserved, ars all the
o.lginal reoords relating to Farmer Loveland's c ipyholi
property, and hundreds of other tenant& Now I take
tip the index of Court Bolls. Altar that I saoend •
Ma ladder, and extract from a good sized piseon•bola,
marked L, • ewes of admissions, surrender., mortgagee,
and releaser, beautifully and systematically arranged,
and in loss than ten mioutes I have got at the history
of Farmer Loveland's property, put and present, and
am exclaiming, ' Eureka, Funks !' I find that a year
or two sines be was admitted tenant on tbe rolls of the
manor, as devisee of outdo lands given to tilm by the
will of hie lately deceased fattier, u art forth In the
following entry or admissioo

Lona out Annum!.
Townes Moo, Hollow or Hou.
Ma Wed.; Hoot Yd.

&chard Loveland., of Honey Need. in the parish of Trull.
In the county el Somerset, yeoman, devisee of the lends herein
efter mentioned, name I In the last will and testament of Jacob
Loveland., lately of Trull aforesaid, yeoman, decesard.boaring
date thls day of 1035. • copy
eh* i.tduly entered on the rolls of the Manor. reuse sod
fined with the lord for al tint Wow of land called •Honey
Mead; conteining by estimation three sere., more or len
with a cottage and gardso Ustm.on, mutate In the tithing of
North Tvendle, heretofore of Abraham Broadtoot, afterward.
to Isaac Goodfellow. end late of the nkl Jacob Loveland.,
decreed. which premiers mote Into the hands of the lord upon
Lb. death of the read Jacob Loveland.. To be had, etc. And

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nil. flow, wee made the day of ,
Ittee, In the presence of John Thorne. wad William Morrie,
tenants of the lord. .

BacuAso Lev aLANDs

Jour MONA/.

W I Llaill MOIIiII.

I further lee that he lid. undoubted and sole owner
of the property about to be moitiagel, end Mist up to
this time he he/ done no sot to chug* or eacumber It.
Now for the nett step. I ref.r to the stamp sot, and
sourtaln the "ad •eloreen.' Ems to be peid oa •
mortgage of £100; then locking do door of the fire-
proof room, the nature! Impulse of • C.',ustos Rote-
lorune: and plaiting the dungeon -looking key into •
euret corner until my /stun, I find myself Arlo' down
the 11104trest, very like • wioged Mercury, kauskiug
down. I regret to say, 'in treasteu; • poor old woman
and her oratpa, end dour, I fear. soca* itsjery to life
and property. Arrived at the s filo* of Dotributor of
Stamp, kl seek and obtain the stamp n quire, and
write Thyself a debtor to that depertmett to • book
kept speeielly for the purpose, and settled monthly:
Theo, puffing, panting, and perspiriog. with stamp to
hand, I am beck a„aln at the Manor Offloe, and bow the
reel work beeps. I prepare the draft mortgers, sod
satiety neyself that I have made no blander. I thee
engross or tranacibe it on the aforesaid stemped pryer,
them hands, not to speak it profusely, mioutering, as
with holy Paul, to the necessities of the ocouion. 'nee
mortgage-money, mule up cf ono hundred 'yellow
boys,' as the farmers is those days facetiously milled
the go.den coin of die resins, has been by me counted
and found correct. I should remark that Firmer
Moldiest, the mortgage*, wstahed ow with 'tosses)
interest during the whole time I was imanipulstiog the
money, uaurlog sete more than once during the counting
that he was condi" it was £lOO, sod might be more,
but could not by any possibility be less! The abuses
of the two offidals before referred to obligee me to cell
la the aid of my tailor end shoemaker, who live dem
by, are tenants to the lord, sod ready at • moment's
notice to witness manorial acts. I now request Farmer
Loveland/ to Aix his nome to the mortgage, which he
does slowly, surely, solemnly, in token of his unbounded
respect and regard foe the lead, and looking forward,
no
doubt, with faith end hope to the day of It.
redemption. The tenants now witeees the ezeoutlea
of the mortgege surrender.• Here Is • copy of II:

liciereaes.
Richard l,relande, or • Roney Need, In the parish of
Trull, in the county of souterwit, yeoman, doer. surrender Into
the bands of the lord all that slow of land called 'Honey /lead,'
containing by eitimation three saw, more of leas, arith a
water. and gsrden thereon, situate, In the Uthing of North
Trionle, heretofore of Rhenium Browßoot, sherwerds of
lasec Goodfellow. and late of Jacob Lore/ends, decreed, to
the uss nod beh 301 of Denielldlest, of Lindland., in the
pariah of Trull aforesaid, of the Meow of Taunton Dean, to be
hoiden upon conditions following, (to wit) Dist if the saki
Richeed Lovelead., his heirs, executors, adminiatrators, or
easigna, or the person Of persons who for the thee being IWO
talent or tenant& of the said hereditament@ and premteek do
and elan wen and truly pay or cause tub. pntd unto the wid
Daniel Hold:wt. las executors, adadelstrwore. or aligns, the
NAM • f one hundred pound& with interest for therms at and
after the rate of four pounds for every one hundred pounds by
the yew, of iswful money, current in England on the
dar of next sowing, the date hereof at or in
the Excbeeser of the Chatle of Taunton; then &hie surrender
shall he void and of no elect. or else shal• be and noone in
full force of virtue. Taken the day of
1010, in the presence of Jaw Thomas and William II orris,
tenants of the lord.

Rsawis Locramros.

Joao Twain.
Wti.L.LAs SOW&
lioartion SCILISAIDIL

t .. d.

Yr. Rickard Lorelando.—Dr. _
To Mortgage! lurrooder by you to Mr. Dania Hold.
taut, of lands in dui Hundred of Trull, procuring
Unman, nod setandlou. pawing, etc. 1 10 0
Paper and Gorerrunout Bump Deny 1 0 1
Total
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The Mod barium' (snow—dr—awing to • am. ; bat
the bill, the possible bill of horrors hut not been
revealed. Fanner Lovelandi puto on hie spades:lm or
rnagtoUyirig gleams, reacts, leases, marks, atd inwardly
digests it. No cry of agricultural distress follows the
permal of it. He MOS feared I might prove a land
oppeeasor. He finds me dm ' Farman Mead.' Now
made happy by the modwths demand on his remotest,
be throat. his right hand down into hla breed'se
pocket, and extrude( from it. almost unfathomable
mess a pillow bag, with • fair amount of allow and
gold, bands me the amount of the bill, amiably mlioits
a receipt, and prods's,. me • Gentlsmith and no
mistake I" Ship,' the faithful ' Ship, who ha. boss
lying down all the time on the floor, damp with hi.
het breath, mid dreaming of his absent flock, is ready
to depart. The old mare., leg-weary and hungry, for
they had already ploughed an am. of clover stubble
before they same to town that morning, sod wee
taatod • grain of oorn In their lime, lent they shout.
got' saucy' and aped the 'Laded interest,' are looking
wistfully towards dm Manor OEMs, thinking It was
time for dinner. Meows. Lovelaads and Holdfaat, who
mem to have taken rather • fancy to me grade me so
tightly by the hand in the parting some that I feel I
am fast falling into the iron jaws of • eider press.
With the genuine hospitality of the English farmer
the, invite we to their hommteado
their way,' assuring me that their wire' and daughters
will ask* me vmhsome.' And Melly, as the greatest of
tempiations, press me to come orer and meta their
prime eider, sawle, &a they gravely laform me, out of
the Fair Maids of Taantoo, and Klopton Week Apple,
whise was good for body and noel; and so I promim,
~,benpecy I visit the neighbourh ,o 1 of Honey Head
jr.,o, to try their mystoriou compound mitts,, of
giallo and female remains."

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BM [NTT Year's' EXPIRLIMM proves that Rowland's
Idasentar preserrra, streeitiona sad beautified the
k usual hole; 3t Gd. 71., .Dd 10a dd. pie bottle. Row-
leads lialyaor .radintles all apots, ter, freckles, and
'modems a purity of etenpkxioa ; es. 6d. per boUle.
Rowlands' Odooto prodoses waits sad stood lostb, pre-
venting sag ssessaing Ads elssay ; le. Pd. per box, of
ail double, Ilse OM ll•vlsois' is es every
.arOlde, es saw beleg pub&