case cook against stub there may be a superior leet belong to a manor at which  the reeve and four resiants ought to attend but they can compel the attendance  of a inhabitant for a man can be of two leet ante roll ab cro car hetley    light b dougl hawk p c will Cowp dougl in second deliverance the defendant  avow as bailiff to the earl of Northumberland for that he be lord of the manor  of Topcliff and that he and all those who c have have a leet of all the  resiants in Topeliff Dufford Ballerby cum Norton and diverse other will and  because the defendant be a inhabitant and resiant in one a it must be prove  that the amerciament of a freeholder be afeard by free holder of the manor or  a action of debt can be maintain will croak James er p of those will within  his leet and do not appear at such a court he be amerce and for that  amercement he make cognizance c the plaintiff reply that the earl of  Devonshire be seize of the manor of Ballerby cum Norton and have a leet there  by prescription and traverse the prescription in the avowry upon evidence to  the jury it appear that the earl of Northumberland have a grand leet in  Topcliff extend into diverse will videlicet Topeliff Afterby and into diverse  other village on the east side of the river Swale and in the wapentake of  Bridsey and into diverse other will videlicet Dufford Ballerby cum Norton and  into other will on the north side of the say river and in the wapentake of h  and all the will on the west side have particular leet and yet they send a  constable from every will and four man to the leet of Topcliff who present in  Topeliff all matter presentable in leet but none other of the inhabitant of  the say town ever appear at the say leet at Topcliff and if upon this evidence  it appear croak throw that the Lord of Northumberland have a leet in Topcliff  of all the inhabitant of Ballerby cum Norton then the question be whether this  general prescription will serve he and all the court deliver for law to the  jury that the grand leet have the superiority of all other the leet within it  and the reeves and four man ought to appear thereto and inquire of all matter  enquirable within the inferior leet and of the defect of the lord of the leet  and concealment of offence in the say leet but he shall not compel any of the  inhabitant and resiants to come thereto but only the reeve and four man and if  they come not the will shall be amerce and in avowry he ought to make a  special prescription and not a general prescription as be here as appear Henry  pl Edward leet Edward title issue and they say the rule be that every man  ought to be within a leet and none can be of two leet and this grand leet be  call a tourn and be in nature of the sheriff tourn which have jurisdiction of  all inferior leet within it