The history of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with monorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees (1893)
Turner, J. Horsfall (Joseph Horsfall), b. 1845 · Bingley, Yorks : Printed for the author by T. Harrison and sons · leaf 193
her Court Leet Officersare sworn in at the April Leets. Court days at Wakefield for copy-hold business are held every three weeks. The words in italics tellthe decadence as laconically as the Hebrew word Ichabod. •■ [Frankpledge, mentioned on the last few pages, means freemens surety. Atfourteen… … AND HIPPERIIOLME. 191 From Saxon times it was customary to lot off bcrewicks orsub-manors, but tbese courts only controlled ordinary manorialbusiness, and the inhabitants of the sub-manors had to attend thegreat manorial courts and especially the sheriff tourn. Kectorial Manor. The Priors of Lewes,…
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