60 MANOR AND PRIORY COURTS OF CRANBORNE. 



1730 16 Apr. Again a juror, and also sworn as one of the affeerers for 



the out -hundred. 

 1733 14 Oct. Pentridge " recitements " include his name as paying 



one penny.* 

 1734 29 Oct. Robt. Brownen (sic) again serves on the jury of the 



same court, the latest entry of his name within the 



period being on the tithing list of May, 1735. 



In the autumn of 1728 the death of the lord of the manor is 

 recorded in the following terms : Memdum q d die Martis 

 octavo die Octobris 1728 p'd honabilis Jacobus Com Salisbury 

 diem suum clausit extremum. After this date the proceedings 

 are sometimes headed " James, Earl of Salisbury, by Anne 

 Dowager Countess his mother and guardian." 



Notwithstanding the probability that the four paper 

 volumes contain only the rough notes written in court, I am 

 told that no copy of these minutes, either on parchment or on 

 paper, is in the possession of the owner of the Cranborne 

 Estates. It is, therefore, a satisfaction to me to be able to add 

 that in the near future the manuscript will be transferred to a 

 more fitting home in the library of Hatfield House. 



* This tax may be the old " common fine " or " head silver " paid 

 by those living withing the jurisdiction of a court leet. 



