| Description Of Item | Notes on county courts in England, and where they can be held. ‘The county court may be kept at any place within the county at the Pleasure of the Sheriff’, however the sheriff of Northumberland ‘by the Statute’ has to keep the county court ‘in the town or castle of anwick’ (Alnwick). Similarly, the sheriff of Sussex must hold the county court ‘one time at Chichester Chester: the other at Lewes. The sheriff of Chester too must hold his county court ‘in the shire-hall of the said County.
Copied from William Greenwood, Bouleutērion, or A practical demonstration of county judicatures (1659).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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