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=== Manorial Court === | === Manorial Court === | ||
Records of these courts give information about the day-to-day life on a manor (an estate held by a landlord), including petty crimes, land transfers, manorial appointments, customs, rental fees, and so forth. It regulated the responsibilities and interrelationship of the manorial lord, his steward and bailiff (law officer), and the village people. Manorial court records began about 1066 (earliest records usually survive from 1500s in Wales) and ended in the early 1900s. Some of Wales was not under manorial tenure. More detail is given in: | Records of these courts give information about the day-to-day life on a manor (an estate held by a landlord), including petty crimes, land transfers, manorial appointments, customs, rental fees, and so forth. It regulated the responsibilities and interrelationship of the manorial lord, his steward and bailiff (law officer), and the village people. Manorial court records began about 1066 (earliest records usually survive from 1500s in Wales)<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Wales,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1989-1997.</ref> and ended in the early 1900s. Some of Wales was not under manorial tenure. More detail is given in: | ||
*Watt, Helen. ''Welsh Manors and Their Records''. Aberystwyth, Wales: National Library of Wales, 2000. (Family History Library British {{FHL|1276405|title-id|disp=book 942.9N2w}}.) | *Watt, Helen. ''Welsh Manors and Their Records''. Aberystwyth, Wales: National Library of Wales, 2000. (Family History Library British {{FHL|1276405|title-id|disp=book 942.9N2w}}.) | ||