. The records of St. Bartholomew's priory and of the church and parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield . ir plaints before the steward in this fair, assigned tohear and determine pleas ; and they will minister to all partiesjustice, according to the laws of this land and the customs of thiscity. The annexed view (pi. XII b) of a case being tried in the Pie-powderCourt, published by R. Wilkinson in 1811, is descriptive of the courtdetermining a cause between two suitors (apparently actors) respect-ing some injury sustained in the fair. It is being held at the Handand Shears public
. The records of St. Bartholomew's priory and of the church and parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield . ir plaints before the steward in this fair, assigned tohear and determine pleas ; and they will minister to all partiesjustice, according to the laws of this land and the customs of thiscity. The annexed view (pi. XII b) of a case being tried in the Pie-powderCourt, published by R. Wilkinson in 1811, is descriptive of the courtdetermining a cause between two suitors (apparently actors) respect-ing some injury sustained in the fair. It is being held at the Handand Shears public-house, which still stands, where shown here, atthe corner of Middle Street and Kinghorn Street, though it has beenrebuilt since this view was taken. We have no record where the courtwas held during monastic times, but we may assume it was in theguest-house. After the suppression it was at first apparently heldat the Barley Mow Tavern in Long Lane, where there was a house-known as The Old Court House .* In the Guildhall Library is a MS., known as the Smithfield Court1 See Vol. II, chap, xii. Cloth Fair. •LATE X. I [and and Shear;(sec p. 308)
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