LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
In 1205 the lessee
of Easthorpe manor was exempted from suit to
the shire and hundred courts. (fn. 65) In 1303 the lord
of Easthorpe manor was granted free warren. (fn. 66)
The few surviving court rolls show that manor
courts met infrequently between 1727 and 1794
to deal with routine manorial business such as
transfers of holdings, but that none at all met
between 1728 and 1737; there were usually two
jurors. (fn. 67)
Easthorpe's rate of poor relief expenditure per
head of population was about average for
Lexden hundred. Costs were £54 in 1776, aver-
aged £95 in 1783-5, and in 1802 were £285.
They fluctuated between £87 and £265 between
1803 and 1818, rose to £311 in 1819, equivalent
to 35s. 7d. a head, and then fell to £182 in 1824. (fn. 68)
Between 1825 and 1830 they ranged between
£261 and £173, and then fell to £137, equivalent
to 16s. 4d. a head, in 1836. (fn. 69)
Footnotes
| 65 |
Rot. Litt. Pat. (Rec. Com.), 506; Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i. p. 135. |
| 66 |
Cal. Chart. R. 1300-26, 37. |
| 67 |
E.R.O., D/DEl M230. |
| 68 |
Ibid. Q/CR 1/1, 1/12, 1/9/16; Rep. Sel. Cttee. on Poor Rate Returns, 1822-4, H.C. 334, Suppl. App. p. 81 (1825), iv. |
| 69 |
Rep. Sel. Cttee. on Poor Rate Returns, 1825-9, H.C. 83, p. 61 (1830-1), xi; ibid. 1830-4, H.C. 444, p. 60 (1835), xlvii; 2nd Annual Rep. Poor Law Com. H.C. 595, pp. 108-9 (1836), xxix, pt. II. |