fleets

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The town was governed by a bailiff appointed by a jury at one of the court leets of the lord of the manor, until a local board was formed in 1859.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

"Mother, heaw leets we han no brade,—Heawever con it be?Iv aw don't get some brade to eat,Aw think 'at aw mun dee."

From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Waugh, Edwin

It's lukkin confaandedly black,—    Its as dismal an dull as mi hat; Nah, Sal leets a foir in a crack,—    Aw will give her credit for that.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

Mistress Garth came by in the evening, and stood in the road opposite to look at the north leets.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

Tha can say what tha likes, David, but hawf a bad en, an if yo can nobbut catch leets, aw'm sewer ther's monny a thing less like a drake nor that.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John