This book provides the text of the earliest available records of the manorial court for the township of Heptonstall. These records provide an insight into how daily life was managed by the manorial court, an early form of local community regulation. We learn about transfers of property, the gradual process of encroachment on the moors, issues concerning the maintenance of water courses and hedges, and rights to the resources of the commons. Amongst much else, they provide extensive information on local families and the properties they owned. The records are a verbatim translation from the Latin of the only extant records of a submanor in the Upper Calder Valley for this period and also include the reports of the jury that were written in English. A detailed introduction, a glossary and comprehensive indexes are included.