A History of English Assizes 1558-1714This book is primarily an account of the most familiar and longest lived of English courts during the most critical as well as the most influential period of its history. It describes all aspects of the court's work, personnel, jurisdiction, and constitutional position, throws incidental light on the nature of local administration and government, and examines the thesis that the function of assizes was governmental - as a main channel of communication between central government and provincial authority - as well as being judicial. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE STREAMS OF PARADISE | 13 |
The English circuits 15581714 | 23 |
Preparation for the circuits | 49 |
ASSIZES AND GAOL DELIVERY | 63 |
The clerk of assize and his staff | 70 |
Criminal proceedings | 86 |
Nisi prius | 134 |
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