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was made in similar terms but, as there was no separate mention of the hundred, 

 the Parliamentary surveyors in 1651 left the matter for further consideration.' 

 The hundred was returned in 1 246 as worth ^8,^ but by 1 253 the farm had 

 been raised to 20 marks, ^ at which figure it was still standing in i 275.'* It was 

 stated at the survey later in 1651 that the rent called certainty money, paid by 

 the freeholders of the hundred, amounted to jTj os. 8^., while the profits of the 

 court leet held half-yearly and of the three-weeks court and the royalties in 

 hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, &c. were worth one year with another £^. 

 The waifs, strays, deodands, goods of felons and fugitives, &c. belonged to the 

 lord of the hundred if the bailiff seized them first, but if the bailiff of the lord 

 of a manor within the hundred, with a leet belonging, should obtain them first, 

 then that lord was to receive the profits. s 



■ Pari. Survey Northants. no. lo. * Ibid. 619, m. 63 d. 



- Assize R. 614, m. 41. ' Pari. Survey Northants. no. to. 



^ Ibid. 615, m. 63. 



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