Journal entry – John Grey – 25 Oct 1833

Friday 25th October



This being the day appointed by Mr Fenwick to hold the Court at Haydon Bridge , I went in the morning to meet him there,  & found a large concourse of people assembled.  Many suits were tried for the recovery of small debts and some for encroachment and trespass.  Where so respectable a jury can be obtained, one cannot but regret that so cheap & efficient a mode of procuring justice should be limited to the small sum of 40s.   I returned to Corbridge in the evening, leaving Mr Dickinson, who had attended at Wark, as well as there, endeavouring to collect the small quit Rents, but with very partial success.