{"id":2295,"date":"2013-05-31T18:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2014-09-22T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:09:30","slug":"the-bounders-of-crowle-manor-1607-john-carney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowle.org\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"The Bounders of Crowle Manor – 1607 – John Carney"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bounders of Crowle Manor <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today more and more people are riding walking and even running round the boundaries of the parish a practice that was required by Statute <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The common law right of parishioners to preamble their Parish Boundary raises the presumption that such use is by the public <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Below is copy is from Abstracts of Stovin\u2019s Manuscripts by Rev John Tomlinson\u2019s page 292 published in 1862 titled; The Levels of Hatfield Chase and Parts Adjacent<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Boundaries of Crowle Manor <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA copy of the Bounders of Crowle the Lordship of Crowle, made 7<\/span><\/span>th<\/span><\/span><\/sup> Day November <\/span><\/span>Anno Jacobi &c., quinto Anno dom1607 <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Lord of the manor there may at his pleasure, drive as is accustomed from <\/span><\/span>Dirkness Crooke to Callem Dike, though the Starr Carr by Hyrst (where was a cell to Nostrel) Syke<\/i><\/span><\/span> to the <\/span><\/span>Monk Stone,<\/i><\/span><\/span> And from thence to a Certain Powle or Stowpe (pole) set out in the moor, by an order and awarde made by the Right Honourable Edmond Lord Sheffield, Betwixt the Townships of <\/span><\/span>Crowle<\/i><\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>Belton <\/i><\/span><\/span>: and so Lineally Towards the north as the said Powles and Stowpes were set, by said Order, to <\/span><\/span>Priscoe Dyke <\/i><\/span><\/span>; and from Priscoe Dyke north east to the Old Done mouth; and from thence all (along) the East Side of the Donn To<\/span><\/span> Moordyke bank <\/i><\/span><\/span>to the<\/span><\/span> Black Sykes <\/i><\/span><\/span>in the<\/span><\/span> Hoope; <\/i><\/span><\/span>and from thence to<\/span><\/span> Ducking Sykes <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What are the Bounders of the Manor<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span> (Judge Michael Heath ( \u201c what is that all about\u201d <\/span><\/span>) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Statute for View of Frankpledges (1352) 18 Edw. 2 includes a statutory requirement to inspect the boundaries of Manors. The Statute contains 34 clauses covering all matters and nuisances which were, by custom of general concern to the whole manor. The margin note states <\/span><\/span>\u201cLeets: Of what things Steward in their Leets shall enquire\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clauses 9-11 of the Act relates to bounds, ways, and waters they state:- <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clause 9 <\/span><\/span>\u201cOf Bounds withdrawn and taken away\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clause 10 \u201c<\/span><\/span>Of ways and paths opened or stopped\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Clause 11 <\/span><\/span> \u201cof waters turned or stopped, or brought from their right course\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It was common practice for the steward of the Leet (upon whom the statutory duty rested) to delegate the task of inspection, inquisition, and presentment to the \u201cJurors of the Court Leet\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Crowle Manor Rolls (1381 \u2013 1590 confirm that the statute was obeyed and that the boundary of the Manor was inspected on a regular basis by the jurors who presented all nuisances to the Manor Court. In order for Jurors to carry out their statutory obligation it was necessary for them to perambulate the boundaries of Crowle Manor. On such perambulations they were accompanied by other \u201cTenants of the Lord\u201d who were anxious to ensure the inspection was properly and impartially carried out. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thus by statute and common law , the custom of perambulation the Crowle Manor Bounders was established, All local History books from De La Pryme and Stovin to modern times contain details of the bounders of Crowle and inquisitions <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe New Law Dictionary\u201d Jacob (1794) states re perambulation:- <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Perambulation of parishes is to be made by the Minister, Church warden and Parishioners, by going round the same once a Year, in ascension week: And the parishioners may justify going over any man\u2019s land in their Perambulation, according to Usage : and it is said my abate all Nuisances in the Way- CRO. Eliz. 444<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Parliament recognised the importance of may Inclosure Acts made before 1801, ordered the Jury of the Court Leet to annually inspect all matters of public concern in the Parish (for example \u2013 the comprehensive list of directions at page 13 of the Tockwith Inclosure Act, 32 Geo 3 cap 58 (1792) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Law relating to Highways\u201d Glen (1893) page 310 states:- <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a> Perambulation of the boundaries are very generally made in most parishes in England, in Rogation week in each year. The parishioners may justify entering a man\u2019s land for that purpose\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026and citing Lord Denman C.J. \u201cThe right to perambulate parochial boundaries, to enter private land for that purpose, and remove obstructions that might prevent this from being done, cannot be disputed (Taylor v Davey 7 A & E 415) <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Glen also makes the point (when commenting on section 58 Highways Act 1835: highways along parish boundaries) that expenses incurred when perambulating boundaries could be recovered out of public funds. Thus the parishioners could take payment out of the poor rate to cover expenses incurred in correction of nuisances observed when perambulating their boundary (section 60 Poor law Amendment Act (1844) 7 & 8 Vict 101) .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It is persuasive of the existence of a public right along a parish boundary when a public statute allows public funds to be used for maintaining that public boundary. For as Littlejohn J. said in Leake \u201c<\/span><\/span>the parish are merely part of the public \u2026.If a road has been used by people in the parish, it furnishes evidence pro tanto of it being a way for the rest of the public\u201d <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A perambulation was, and still is, in the eyes of the law, a public activity. It is an activity whose sole purpose is to assert the right of the local public to a way along a defined route in order to inspect and protect public conveniences.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The contention that the parishioners are \u201cthe public\u201d is supported by the words of Lord Wright Master of the Rolls in Jennings v Stephens (1936) Ch 469 who said at 476<\/span><\/span> \u201cThe public \u2026\u2026\u2026.may mean for practical purposes only the inhabitants of a village <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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John Carney<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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