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Court of Chancery |
| "This Court, which was an independent
tribunal, was anciently held in St James' Church in Dover. It took
cognizance of all civil causes arising within the liberty of the Ports, and
sat every three weeks; being presided over either by the Lord Warden himself
or his lieutenant, or a deputy nominated by him or his Seneschal. The
appeal from it lay to the Warden's Court of Shepway alone. It fell
into altogether disuse in the reign of George I." Grand Court of Shepway, V. Knocker, quoted in "Records of Walmer", 1890 |