MODUS TENENDI CUR BARON CUM VISU FRANCI PLEGII: a reprint of the first edition A.D. 1510. Together with translations and an introductory note.
['The Method of Holding a Court Baron with View of Frank-Pledge'. Main text in Latin and English]. Pp. x+60; wide post 8vo; qr. beige cloth over cream papered boards, upper board lettered in black, the boards faintly foxed and soiled, edges lightly rubbed, fore-corners of upper board lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, a little light foxing; The Manorial Society, London, 1915. The Manorial Society's Publications - No. 9. *First printed by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1510. The court Baron was the principal type of medieval manorial court, focusing on matters affecting the local community, including the enforcement of labour services, and the administration of justice for minor crimes. Frankpledge was a system in which members of society were mutually responsible for the behaviour of their peers. A frankpledge group was responsible for ensuring that any criminal in their group was brought to court, or the group itself was fined. 'While a freeholder's land was sufficient pledge, the unfree had to be in frankpledge, generally an association of 12, or in tithing, an association of 10 householders' [Britannica]. Item #181434
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