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I wonder if the Strand link in {{ Duchy of Lancaster}} should really be coming here? Or does the duchy own property outside the former liberty along the Strand? MRSC ( talk) 05:55, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I was looking through the Times Digital Archive and interestingly enough the Court Leet of the Liberty seems to have survived until at least 1939, long after the area was included in the metropolitan borough. according to a couple of sources, the liberty was divided into 4 wards, with 2 burgesses for each ward, plus a steward (or high steward) at this stage Lord Askwith. The court was completed by a jury of 16 that was elected annually.
Apparently the ceremony of beating the bounds involved the choristers of Savoy Chapel touching the various boundary marks. The marks were a "lion rampant surmounted by a crown and encircled by the words DUCHY OF LANCASTER". There were about 14 marks in various places near the law courts and The Temples and the Embankment and one under Waterloo Bridge (which was missing in 1939 as the bridge was being reconstructed). It would be interesting to have a look for the boundary marks and get a pic. Lozleader ( talk) 14:33, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
The article talks about the liberty in past tense, but no information is given as to why it is so. There are details of when particular institutions of the Duchy were abolished, but based on the information in the article it would seem the subject of the article still exists, so why the past tense? The infobox only gives a date of creation, not of demise. -- 62.189.73.197 ( talk) 15:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Parts (perhaps most) of the Liberty would have been in the Strand parliamentary constituency during its lifetime. Beowulf ( talk) 13:20, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
As the Precinct of the Savoy was abolished in 1922, was the Liberty abolished at the same time? Jackiespeel ( talk) 19:32, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
The link to the Patrick O'Brien article does not work as indicated. It just brings up some textbook site. 2404:C806:1559:1100:A95F:74D2:3493:930B m.e. ( talk) 05:17, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
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I wonder if the Strand link in {{ Duchy of Lancaster}} should really be coming here? Or does the duchy own property outside the former liberty along the Strand? MRSC ( talk) 05:55, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
I was looking through the Times Digital Archive and interestingly enough the Court Leet of the Liberty seems to have survived until at least 1939, long after the area was included in the metropolitan borough. according to a couple of sources, the liberty was divided into 4 wards, with 2 burgesses for each ward, plus a steward (or high steward) at this stage Lord Askwith. The court was completed by a jury of 16 that was elected annually.
Apparently the ceremony of beating the bounds involved the choristers of Savoy Chapel touching the various boundary marks. The marks were a "lion rampant surmounted by a crown and encircled by the words DUCHY OF LANCASTER". There were about 14 marks in various places near the law courts and The Temples and the Embankment and one under Waterloo Bridge (which was missing in 1939 as the bridge was being reconstructed). It would be interesting to have a look for the boundary marks and get a pic. Lozleader ( talk) 14:33, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
The article talks about the liberty in past tense, but no information is given as to why it is so. There are details of when particular institutions of the Duchy were abolished, but based on the information in the article it would seem the subject of the article still exists, so why the past tense? The infobox only gives a date of creation, not of demise. -- 62.189.73.197 ( talk) 15:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Parts (perhaps most) of the Liberty would have been in the Strand parliamentary constituency during its lifetime. Beowulf ( talk) 13:20, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
As the Precinct of the Savoy was abolished in 1922, was the Liberty abolished at the same time? Jackiespeel ( talk) 19:32, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
The link to the Patrick O'Brien article does not work as indicated. It just brings up some textbook site. 2404:C806:1559:1100:A95F:74D2:3493:930B m.e. ( talk) 05:17, 4 March 2023 (UTC)