General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Sir
Note:
descendancy from LDS files and from the Culpepper Connection
[5502] Thomas de Colepeper was a Recognitor of the Grand As
size. The Grand
Assize was a judicial proceeding or inquiry, and the Recogn
itors, who
were summoned on such a tribunal, were the jurors. Their fu
nction was
to investigate all cases involving questions of right. As R
ecognitors
were probably neighbors of the disputing parties, they wer
e bound to
"recognize" and speak the truth concerning the matter at is
sue. -
From "The Sussex Colepepers", published in the "Sussex Arch
aeological
Collections", Volume XLVII, 1904, pp. 48-49.