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Excerpt from The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester, From the Year 1552 to the Year 1686, and From the Year 1731 to the Year 1846, Vol. 1: From the Year 1552 to 1586
Also if any tenant by reason of his tenure ought to grinde at the Lords Mill2 if he doe it not, you must present him. Such is a short summary of the presentments to be made at the Court Baron. At the period to which the Records, printed in the following pages, relate, the latter half of the 16th century (1552 to a perusal Of the entries there contained will show that the Manchester Court Leet exercised its authority in the following directions. It saw to all sanitary matters connected with the welfare of the town generally, and it prohibited all nuisances of a public and private character. All middens and dunghills were required to be fenced in, all privies were to be kept as clean as possible, and the water courses were to be left free and open. Swine were not permitted to go loose in the streets, and horses were not to be foddered there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
