| Title | Court book. This book records three separate changes in ownership of the court, by purchase and inheritance. In 1869 James Higgon purchased the court, in 1877 his son John inherited it and in 1901 it passed to Emily, John's widow. Each is accompanied by a note of the appointment of a new steward and bailiff. The main concerns of the court seem to be confined to receiving the rents of tenants and entry fines of new ones; appointment of constables and encroachment on the rights of the Lord. The last entry is very faded but appears to donate the rents and fees to the use of the bailiff and the poor, while a rate is to be applied to a public parochial project |