History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Court Leet & Court Baron to be holden within our said lordship or manor, to be sett, forfeited, or imposed, or payable, or happening, at any time to be l)ayable, by any of the inhabitants of, or w"'ii], the said Lordshipp or Manuour of Scarsdale or die Limitts & bounds thereof, & also all & every power & powers, authority & authorityes, for the holding & keeping, the sd. court leet, & court baron, from time to time, & to award & issue out, the accustomed writts to be issued & awarded out of courts leet & courts baron, as also that the sd. court leet & court baron be kept by the sd. Caleb Heathcote his heires and assignes forever, his, or their, or any of their, stewards deputed & appointed, w"' full & ample power & autiiority to distrain for the rents, services, & other sumes of money, payable by virtue of ye i)remises & all other lawful reraedys & means for the havcing, possessing, levying, & enjoying the premises, & every jiartc & parcell of the same, & all waifes, estrayes, deodands, & goods of fellons, happening, or to hap- I)en, being or to be, forfeited, w."'in the sd. Lordship or Mannour of Scarsdale. And wee doe further give & grant unto the said Caleb Heathcote his heires & assignes, that all & singular ye tenants of him the sd. Caleb Heathcote, within the sd. Mannour, shall & may at all times hereafter meet together & choose assessors within the man."' aforesd. according to such rules, wayes, & methods, as are prescribed for cities towns & counties within our sd. j)rovince, by ye acts of Generall of Assembly for defraying the publick charge of each respective city, town, & county, aforesaid, & all such sumes of money so assessed & levyed, to collect & dispose of, for such uses, as any act or acts of the sd. gener." assembly shall establish & appoint, to have, hold, possess, & enjoy, all & singular the sd.