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By W. MILES BARNES. 



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H ROUGH the courtesy and kindness of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Sheridan, of Frampton Court, I am able 

 to give extracts from the Rolls of the Court 

 Leet and Court Baron of the Liberty and 

 Manor of Frampton. 



The earliest rolls have, unfortunately, 

 disappeared, and one volume only remains 

 the latest which contains the Rolls of 

 the Courts from May ist, 1765, to i88r, 

 when the records ceased. By that time the 

 holdings had passed from the mediaeval tenure by which the 

 tenants held under the Court of the Lord, to whom they did 

 fealty to the modern holding of the tenant farmer ; and the 

 later rolls are mainly interesting from that fact that they enable 

 the reader to trace the stages of the change and to see how the 

 farm buildings were gradually altered to adapt them to the 

 requirements of the larger tenants. These changes were 



