A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1992.
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'North Petherton: Borough', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), (London, 1992) pp. 282-283. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/pp282-283 [accessed 26 April 2024]
BOROUGH.
A burgage in North Petherton belonged to the serjeanty of Pignes in 1251-2. (fn. 1) North Petherton borough, which was separately represented neither at the eyres of 1225 and 1242-3 (fn. 2) nor at the law hundreds of the 1430s, (fn. 3) yielded profits to the lord of North Petherton hundred and manor, nearly £5 in 1297-8, nearly £6 in 1311-12, and £5 9s. 4d. in 1391-2. The profits came mostly from rents, but also from a borough court or portmote. (fn. 4) The lordship of the borough, linked with the tithing of Denizen in 1569 (fn. 5) and yielding rents of £3 1s. in 1647, (fn. 6) descended with the hundred and manor until 1832 or later. (fn. 7)