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Citation Show another format:  'Finchley: Local government', A
History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet,
Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980), pp. 75-79. URL: Date
accessed: 13 December 2013. Add to my bookshelf   (Min 3
characters)   Manorial government. In 1294 a jury upheld the
bishop of London's claim to view of frankpledge, assizes of
bread and ale, infangthief, outfangthief, felons' goods, and
gallows over his men in Finchley as members of his manor of
Fulham. (fn. 72) Freeholders owed suit of court every three
weeks at Fulham although it is improbable that courts met so
frequently. (fn. 73) By 1384 a view of frankpledge and court
leet was held for the bishop's Finchley tenants annually at
Fulham on the Sunday after Hokeday. In 1491 it was moved to
Highgate, where it was held on Monday in the fifth week a