Excerpt from The Court Baron: Being Precedents for Use in Seignorial and Other Local Courts; Together With Select Pleas From the Bishop of Ely's Court of Littleport The miscellaneous character Of this volume may require some explanation. Mr. Paley Baildon and I were charged by the Council Of the Society with the task Of continuing the work begun in the volume published in 1889, by print ing some more extracts from the rolls Of manorial courts, and one Of those books Of precedents that are included in this volume. But from one Of these books I was led on to another, and SO to a third, and to a fourth; for, having Once Opened this new vein Of materials, one could not easily stop working it until it had been somewhat fully explored. Meanwhile Mr. Baildon had been making extracts from the ancient and important rolls Of Letcombe Regis, a manor on the royal demesne. Until a late moment I hoped that there would be room for his work as well as for mine; but the precedents proved more bulky than I had expected, and in the end it was discovered that this volume would be full before Letcombe Regis was reached. I hope that the fruit Of Mr. Baildon's labours will be given to the world in some later, and not much later, volume Of our series. I hope, also, that when mem bers of the Society have looked at the books Of precedents, they will allow that, if I have erred in printing them upon the present occasion, the temptation to which I was exposed was one not easily to be resisted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.