| Content Description | View of frankpledge with great court hallemot or great court of the wapentake; rolls relate to the customary tenants and cover the following: Newark, Balderton, Barnby in the Willows, Besthorpe, North and South Clifton, Coddington, North and South Collingham, Cotham, Danethorpe, Elston, Farndon, Girton, Harby, Hawton, Northgate, South Scarle, Shelton, Spalford, Staunton with Kilvington, Flawborough and Alverton, East Stoke, Syerston, Thorney and Winthorpe; for many of the rolls entries are arranged on a place by place basis.
Information recorded in the rolls includes: lists of jurors, inquisitions, verdicts, presentments, fines and amercements, complaints, defaults, pains and so on.
The volume consists of numerous paper rolls which have been conserved and then bound together at a much later date; parts of some of the individual rolls are missing and/or obscure.
Place names have been modernised for reasons of consistency. |