152 On the Self-Government of Small Manorial Communities 
Two “ Viewers of Flesche or Vitealls,” (Carnarii), who exercised 
a similar superintendence over the Butchers. 
Two Sigillatores Core’, Searchers or Sealers of Leather, to look 
after the Tanners and Curriers. 
Two Overlookers of the process of dyeing and fulling Cloth, a 
business much followed within the Manor. (Conservatores artis 
tinctorum et fullatorum). 
Two Wardsmen, (Gardinares), Guardians or Overseers of the ~ 
Poor. 
Two Supervisores Regie vie, or Highway Surveyors. 
The two Churchwardens, (Custodes bonorum Ecclesia), were not, 
I believe, appointed at the Leet Court, but probably at a vestry 
held within the Church. 
The offences of a public character adjudicated in the Court Leet 
were usually of the nature of affrays, assaults, blood-shedding, 
tippling in ale-houses, eaves-dropping or night-walking, keeping 
bad houses, gaming or playing at forbidden games, barratry, or 
disturbing the peace by false reports and quarrels, rescue, pound- 
breach, scolding or scandal, nuisances of all kinds, breaking hedges 
or neglecting to keep them, or the highways, or village bridge, or 
well, in repair, using false or unstamped weights or measures, 
forestalling, regrating, and all the other numerous tribe of offences 
against the general statutes or bye-laws of the Leet, enacted for 
the purpose of regulating the sale or quality of provisions or other 
goods—flesh, leather, cloth, bread, beer, wine, &e. 
Felonies do not appear to have been finally adjudicated in this 
Court, notwithstanding that several entries in the Rolls record the 
repair of the ‘Gallowes,’ (probably kept up only in terrorem), and 
that, according to Aubrey, writing late in the seventeenth century, 
old men then alive remembered them; evidence, however, was 
taken in all cases of felony, and if the Jury presented the prisoner 
as guilty he was committed by the Court to the County Gaol for 
trial. It was the duty of the Tything-man to convey him to Old 
Sarum Castle, for which purpose he was authorised to seize the 
horse of any tenant. 
The goods of every convicted felon being forfeit to the Lord of 
the Manor, the Jury of the Lect, on presenting any one as guilty 
