A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Ferrers,' but in October 1694 there is an instance of their being held at 

 Raunds.2 In Queen Elizabeth's reign the freeholders who owed suit to the 

 three-weeks court paid a yearly fine at one of the half-yearly leets from their 

 lands in the hundred, in lieu of doing suit.^ In 165 i these fines amounted to 

 I2J-. a year, the profits of the two courts being ^^4.'* Throughout the 17th 

 century cases of debt and trespass were heard in the hundred court, as well as 

 occasional matters relating to tolls and bridge-repairs. ^ 



■ Duchy of Lane. Ct. R. (P. R.O.), nos. 1502, 1506, I 5 14, 1 516, I 518. ^ Ibid. no. 1 518. 



3 Ibid. nos. 1502, 1506. t Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), Pari. Surv. Northants. 5. 



5 Duchy of Lane. Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 105. 



