| Description | pp 1-4: English translation of the customs and the laws of the three wiches in Cheshire, under the reigns of King Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, recorded in Domesday Book, remayning on record in the Tabley Office at Westminster, by P Leycester
pp 7-8: A suit between the officers of the town of Northwich and James Grantham, 31 July 1599. Men with lands in Northwich met Mr Serieant Warburton, who sat to hear the liberties of the townsmen, who had as their counsellors Mr Davenport and Mr Clutton
pp 9-11: The ancient customs of the borough of the town of Northwich, concerning the making of salt, collected and put down by Peter Warburton, vice Chamberlain of Chester esq, steward of the same town
pp 12-24: The orders of the borough and town of Northwich concerning salt making and the rule thereof agreed upon by the steward and jury at divers courts
List of judges of Durham Massey. (Sutton of Sutton). Crowton (Brereton of Brereton). Dutton (Dutton of Dutton) etc
p27: The Jury of Burgesses presented that time out of mind there had been 113 salt-houses and one odd lead in Northwich, 1595. List of jurors, and then of salthouses and their owners
pp 31-34: The orders of the Borough and town of Northwich, presented and agreed on by the steward and jury at divers courts concerning good order and government in the said town
pp35: Statements of the burgesses as to the customs of the town at New Parke before Dominus Strange, Thomas Stanley, Peter Leigh and Richard Shirburne knights, William Massye, Alexander Barlow and others, 12 April 1569
pp39-40: Oath of the Overseer of salt. The head looker’s oath.
pp40-46: Articles concerning offices to be made in the said town for the good order of salt making, 16 Apr 1555
p 47: A jury presented before Thomas Venables, seneschall, Thomas Standley, Richard Shirburne, knights, Alexander Barlow and Edward Hassallar and Alex Rigby, the names of persons, who had the right to the brine from the salt pit, 18 Apr 1570
[Entry in Book of Evidences III F 47] |