Watchet, Somerset - Court Leet Lock Up, prison - local postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Court Leet Lock Up [prison of gaol], Watcet, Somerset
• Publisher:  Natural Light, Martock, Somerset
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The court leet was a historical court baron (a manorial court) of England and Wales and Ireland that exercised the ""view of frankpledge"" and its attendant police jurisdiction,^[1] which was normally restricted to the hundred courts.

At a very early time in medieval England the Lord of the Manor exercised or claimed certain jurisdictional rights over his tenants and bondsmen concerning the administration of his manor and exercised those rights through his court baron. However this court had no power to deal with criminal acts.

Criminal jurisdiction could, however, be granted to a trusted lord by the Crown by means of an additional franchise to give him the prerogative rights he owed feudally to the king. The most important of these was the ""view of frankpledge"", by which tenants were held responsible for the actions of others within a grouping of ten households.^[2] In the later Middle Ages the lord, when exercising these powers, gained the name of leet which was a jurisdiction of a part of a county, hence the franchise was of court leet.

The quo warranto proceedings of Edward I established a sharp distinction between the court baron, exercising strictly manorial rights, and the court leet, depending for its jurisdiction upon royal franchise.^[1] However in many areas it became customary for the two courts to meet together.

Watchet is a harbour town and civil parish in the English county of Somerset, with an approximate population of 4,400.^[1] It is situated 15 miles (24 km) west of Bridgwater, 15 miles (24 km) north-west of Taunton, and 9 miles (14 km) east of Minehead. The parish includes the hamlet of Beggearn Huish. The town lies at the mouth of the Washford River on Bridgwater Bay, part of the Bristol Channel, and on the edge of Exmoor National Park.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written whilst travelling through Watchet and the surrounding area.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=somerset

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted