LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
The Hospitallers
had view of frankpledge and the assize of bread
and of ale in Ashley and Silverley in 1275. (fn. 30)
Courts held in the 16th century enforced the
assize and agricultural bylaws, regulated copyhold land transfers, and elected one or two constables and a hayward; records survive for 1513,
1522, and 1547-1601. (fn. 31) Records also survive for
1683-90 and 1798-1894, dealing mainly with
tenurial matters. (fn. 32)
Silverley rectory manor was said in 1543 to
include leets and views of frankpledge. (fn. 33)
The parish owned a house by 1560, probably
Dip Cottage on Mill Road, which was used as a
poorhouse in 1814. It was presumably sold after
the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1835 and was
in private hands by 1856. (fn. 34)
Ashley was part of Newmarket poor-law
union 1835-94, Newmarket rural district 1894-
1974, and East Cambridgeshire district from
1974. (fn. 35)
Footnotes
| 30 |
Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i. 49; cf. Plac. de Quo Warr.
(Rec. Com.), 99. |
| 31 |
C.R.O., R 55/7/1F, rott. 4d., 13 and d.; K.S.R.L.,
uncat. North MSS., M:As:1-2. |
| 32 |
C.R.O., R 51/25/1, no. 5, f. 21 and v.; R 72/45 (uncat.),
ct. bk. for Kirtling etc. 1685-97, pp. 14-17, 31-2, 43, 57-60;
ibid. ct. bk. for Ashley 1798-1894. |
| 33 |
L. & P. Hen. VIII, xviii (I), p. 132. |
| 34 |
K.S.R.L., uncat. North MSS., M:As:2, rot. [1];
C.R.O., P 5/26; R 72/45 (uncat.), ct. bk. for Kirtling etc.
1685-97, pp. 14, 31, 43, 58; ibid. ct. bk. for Ashley 1798-
1894, p. 143 and later refs.; Bodl. MSS. North b. 14, f. 34;
b. 15, ff. 66, 80; B.L. Maps, 1640 (9), no. 18. |
| 35 |
Youngs, Guide, 47. |