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The Court Rolls of the Manor and Borough of Paington, with some notes on the tenures of the manor.

Trans. Devon Assoc. vol. 16 (1884), pp. 703-724.

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Jno. Lane

Prepared by Michael Steer

This paper read at the Association's July 1884 meeting at Newton Abbot, presents information from the Paignton (variously Paington) manorial and borough court rolls from 1664 to 1706. Court rolls are records of those courts that provided justice at the local level. The principle courts were the court baron and court leet. The former was the court of the chief tenants of the manor and was responsible for the internal regulation of the local affairs within the manor. It was attended by all those free tenants whose attendance at court was a condition of their tenure, and by customary tenants. A court leet exercised the peace-keeping jurisdiction of the sheriff's twice-yearly tour of the hundred courts. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the University of Michigan Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.