frankpledge

Clause 35 concerned the county court, the frankpledge and tithes.

The main duties of the hundred court were the maintenance of the frankpledge system.

Tithing: the basic unit of the medieval Frankpledge system.

In a village there would be no hope of his escaping notice at the next viewing of frankpledge.

Each hundred had a "fyrd" (the local defence force) and a court which maintained the frankpledge system.

Frankpledge was more common in the area under the Danelaw, from Essex to Yorkshire.

In 1287, and 1330, the Prior claimed to hold a view of frankpledge from four tenants in Kempston.

In 1286, Peter de Rosceline claimed wreck at sea and frankpledge, he and his wife were living in 1316.

The most important of these was the "view of frankpledge", by which tenants were held responsible for the actions of others within a grouping of ten households.

Ultimately the laws of the 10th and 11th centuries show the beginnings of the frankpledge associations, which came influence an important part of the feudal age.

Finally on the day of the holding of the view of frankpledge he claimed for himself and his steward the right to kill and carry away one deer.

Tithings handled many problems involving villeins, but since freeholders were outside the frankpledge system, any suits involving them would need to be held in a hundred court.

His reign saw the first introduction of the system of tithing, sworn groups of ten or more men who were jointly responsible for peace-keeping (later known as frankpledge).

These meetings were also known as 'views of frankpledge', because the sheriff was supposed to look into the frankpledge or frith-borh system.

In the Anglo-Saxon system of frankpledge, or frith-borh, the headborough presided over the borhsmen in his jurisdiction, who in turn presided over the local tithingmen.

Frankpledge began to decline in the 14th century, and by the 15th century Frankpledge was superseded by local constables operating under the justices of the peace.

This jurisdiction was that of court leet and View of Frankpledge (the two terms define the same assembly), the manor freemen being the jury of a "crown" court within the manor's area.

And if one member of the group was fined or punished, all members would be punished, which is what happened on September 19, 1605 when Mullins and his frankpledge were fined for an unknown transgression.

In the Tithing, groups of ten men swearing the Frankpledge, the compulsory sharing of responsibility and punishment, was in use at least since the time of Alfred the Great in the 9th century.

In 1278 to 1279, the prior claimed frankpledge in Souldrop Manor, but after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was given to Thomas Cobbe of Sharnbrook, (before 1573).

In 1285 the husbands of two of these, Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan and William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, jointly claimed view of frankpledge over Napton.

The term originated in the 10th century, when a tithing meant a group of ten adult males (over the age of 12), each of whom was responsible for the other members' actions and behaviour in a system of frankpledge.

The court leet was a historical court baron (a manorial court) of England and Wales and Ireland that exercised the "view of frankpledge" and its attendant police jurisdiction, which was normally restricted to the hundred courts.

Henry IV gave them the twice-yearly right of frankpledge, the right of waif and stray and the return of briefs and writs which gave the priory a steady income from rents, fines, licences and other fees.

Records for Dorking dated October 5, 1604, again name William Mullins, then residing in the Eastborough district there where he was the head of a "frankpledge" - a group of ten families bonded to the king for their good behavior.