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KINGSMOOR

Catalogue reference: T\PH\vch/24

What’s it about?

This record is a file about the KINGSMOOR dating from 1732-1756.

Is it available online?

Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust).

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Reference

T\PH\vch/24

Title

KINGSMOOR

Date

1732-1756

Description

Xerox copy of court book, styled 'court leet and view of frankpledge', containing half-yearly entries which are formal lists of officers and jurors until Apr.1741 and full records of presentments and orders from Oct.1741. Regular business includes landing of goods on the moor, cutting 'lavers', feeding geese, overstocking the moor, driving of wagons by strangers across the moor, sheep breaking bounds, repairs to bridges, gates and 'hatches', and beating of bounds by the reeve.

Presentment of persons assaulting the hayward, 1747, and the reeve, 1752. 66 fos.

Held by
Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)
Originals held at

[From the records of the Earl of Ilchester at the Dorset R.O.: ref.D.124, box 18]

Language

English

Physical description

1 vol.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1fbcc060-632a-442f-87cb-1b8a88831221/

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