a court said to be held annually on King's hill, at Rochford, in Essex, on the Wednesday morning after Michaelmas day, at cock-crowing, where they whisper, and have no candle nor any pen and ink, but only a coal. Persons who owe suit, or service, and do not appear, forfeit double their rent every hour they are missing.

This servile attendance, Cambden informs us, was imposed on the tenants for conspiring at the like unseasonable time to raise a commotion. The court belongs to the honour of Raleigh, and to the earl of Warwick; and is called lawless, from its being held at an unlawful hour.