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The Later Records relating to North Westmorland
… because he slandered Christopher Nicholson calling him a thief, and the wife of the said Christopher because she …
A History of the County of Oxford
… slain in resisting the arrest of one of their men as a thief, and the third fled to sanctuary. Their estate fell to …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… to attend the court when judgment was to be given on a thief by inquiry ( efforciamentum) of this court, may, … service was received, or when judgment was given on a thief. 8 Besides being a court for hearing the pleas and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… also had waifs, strays, gallows, and the right to hang a thief caught in possession of stolen goods. A suspected thief might be held in Charlbury for three days, but on the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… he had set up a Gallows at Collingham and there hanged a Thief, to the derogation of the Liberty of his Wapentac of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… bailiff of the hundred. 354 In 1376 the goods found on a thief who escaped were seized for the lord. 355 In the 14th …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… and all market squabbles, but with thefts only when the thief was caught at a fair or in the market, and only then …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 'without the king's bailiff'; he also had waifs, and if a thief was caught in the liberty he might, after summoning a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… is given there for a plea moved by the king's writ or a thief is judged by inquisition of the court. Subsequently, in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was occasionally administered. 188 In 1583 a suspected thief and in 1586 a thief were punished in the stocks, 189 and in 1626 three men …