Warden-court Hist.
[warden n.1 + court n.1]
A court held by the Warden of the Marches.
| 1434 Proc. Privy Council (1835) IV. 271 Alle þe bookes of þe wardein courtes and of þe marches. 1549 Compl. Scot. xii. (1872) 103 The vardan of the vest marchis of ingland cam to hald ane vardan court on the vest marchis of scotland. 1556 Ld. Wharton in Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791) I. 220, I have called a Warden Courte, whiche dyd begynne, at..Alnewyk, the iii{supd} of this instaunt. 1583 Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 621 A persoun fylit bakbilland and cravand a warden court to be sett upoun his perrell. 1863 S. S. Jones Northumbld. 162 The days of Trews, or Warden Courts, had to be held frequently, and not by deputies, but by the Lords Wardens themselves. |