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1820 21st October Tintagel

THE CUSTONTARY COURT of His Majesty George the Fourth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth Lord of the said Manor ? at Trevena within and for the said manor the 21st day of October 1820 before Charles Carpenter Esquire Deputy Steward of the said Manor
WITH THIS COURT came the Reverend William Pit Bray clerk customary heir of John Bray Esquire his father late one of the customary tenants of the said Manor and on the death of his mother Joyce Bray was admitted tenant for “a third part”
ALSO for a dwelling house and garden called the Higher House
ALSO for “the said Close excepted”
ALSO for “a third part being the residue”
ALSO “one courtlages and nine acres of land English and one farthing of land Cornish”
ALSO “one work in the quarries there”
ALSO “for a close called Trehayle Park”
ALSO “for a third part”
ALSO for “an eighth part”
ALSO for “due Ox pasture”
ALSO for “pasture for three oxen”
ALSO for “pasture for two oxen and a half”
ALSO for “three Ox leases”
ALSO for “ six Ox leases “ respectively described as per margin with all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging parcels of the customary lands of the said manor TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to him his heirs and assigns for ever according to the custom of the manor aforesaid by the ancient rents and services therefore and of right accustomed and so he is admitted tenant thereof by the pledges of Josias Robins and Francis Lobb costoniary tenants of the said manor and he did fealty and so forth
Signed (undecipherable)

(the descriptions in the margin as mentioned above start to the left of the column of ALSO above, the first referring to “a third part” above the first ALSO then down to the last also, notes in margin below)
Downrow No3 No1
No3
No4
No5
Hobbaland No4
Lanterdan No 30
Trenhayle No49 No 4
Trewarmet No54 No7
No 55 No5
Condelgen Down No 72 No8
No11
No13
No10
No19

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Contributed by Malcolm McCarthy, (Malc in Sunny Padstow), who has the original document.