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A History of the County of Lancaster
… the borough. Ibid. The courts were in 1825 held in the New Moot Hall, 'a neat modern structure of the Gothic order, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… been in use in the town about 1790. 10 'The town hall or moot hall was destroyed by fire some eighty years ago [c. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and form the Common Council, meeting in the Tollbooth or Moot Hall. The mayor for the time being was to be the … of the smaller piece in 1423; ibid. 14229, p. 101. The Moot Hall is named in a deed of 1377, by which Thomas de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… daughter and heir of Roger Erneys. At the Chester Port moot in June, 1395, John Erneys claimed an oven as grandson …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Thomas Urswick of Urswick in 1519 held a close called the Moot How. 111 The 'Hee' was in dispute in 1563. 112 As the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Hall, remain of the once more numerous regalia. The 'moot hall' was held at the Unicorn Inn, near Darwen Bridge, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… the burgesses all the liberties in dispute; and that the moot-hall was their inheritance. They had kept courts, taken … suit and service of the freeholders and inhabitants; the moot-hall to be common to the rector and corporation for the … 76 In October 1620 the mayor of Wigan appeared in the moot-hall where the justices were sitting at …