Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 163
... court also elected those required by the King to ' bear the record of the shire ' in the courts at Westminster or in Parliament , and the coroners whose business it was to keep a record , independently of the sheriff , of all crimes and ...
... court also elected those required by the King to ' bear the record of the shire ' in the courts at Westminster or in Parliament , and the coroners whose business it was to keep a record , independently of the sheriff , of all crimes and ...
Page 164
... court was the hundred court , held once every three weeks by a bailiff to whom the sheriff or the owner of the hundred jurisdiction had sublet its profits , but who , as a royal officer , was responsible to the sheriff or , in a few ...
... court was the hundred court , held once every three weeks by a bailiff to whom the sheriff or the owner of the hundred jurisdiction had sublet its profits , but who , as a royal officer , was responsible to the sheriff or , in a few ...
Page 377
... court to try crimes short of felony presented by a jury , had its formal pleadings like a royal court . A thirteenth - century book , written to enable stewards and bailiffs to know their business , gives such examples as , ' Alice ...
... court to try crimes short of felony presented by a jury , had its formal pleadings like a royal court . A thirteenth - century book , written to enable stewards and bailiffs to know their business , gives such examples as , ' Alice ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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