We are very grateful to the owners of Forge Cottage for their generosity in allowing us to make over 70 images from numerous documents relating primarily to the history of the property and its occupants.
The 4th lot of documents is dated the 14th April 1875. It is an Admission to The Manor of Henham Hall held at The Cock Inn, Henham on the 14th April 1875 by Henry Gardiner on the surrender of Emma Hayden. The Homage, recited by George Franklin Collin and John Newman, recalls that on the 14th October 1869 Emma Hayden of Henham, widow and one of the customary or copyhold tenants of the Manor, appeared at the court having agreed to sell for £ 160 to Henry Gardiner of Quendon, grocer, for the purchase of the customary messuage or cottage in Henham where Mary Dennison, widow, formerly lived, with the blacksmith’s shop, outbuildings, stables, and appurtenances formerly the estate of Mary Mead and for many years in the occupation of William Hayden and now of Emma who was admitted under the will of James Hayden, her late husband deceased. Henry Gardiner, represented by Henry Baker his attorney, applied for Admission to the tenancy of property.
The documents can be accessed by selecting one of the dates below –