A History of English Assizes 1558–1714

J. S. Cockburn

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511896507

This 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xiv

List of Abbreviations
pp xv-xx

INTRODUCTION
pp 1-12

Part One - THE STREAMS OF PARADISE
pp 13-14

1 - The medieval roots
pp 15-22

2 - The English circuits 1558–1714
pp 23-48

3 - Preparation for the circuits
pp 49-62

Part Two - ASSIZES AND GAOL DELIVERY
pp 63-64

4 - Preliminary proceedings
pp 65-69

5 - The clerk of assize and his staff
pp 70-85

6 - Criminal proceedings
pp 86-133

7 - Nisi prius
pp 134-150

Part Three - THE PLANETS OF THE KINGDOM
pp 151-152

8 - Assizes and local government
pp 153-187

9 - Assizes and politics
pp 188-261

APPENDICES

1 - Judges in commission 1559–1714
pp 262-293

2 - Sheriff's account for the Norfolk and Suffolk assizes Lent 1564
pp 294-296

3 - Sheriff's duties and ceremonial at Carlisle assizes 1661–2
pp 297-302

4 - Articles drawn up by prospective sheriffs of Buckinghamshire 1 August 1680
pp 303-307

5 - Preamble to Serjeant Davis's assize charge, York assizes Lent 1620
pp 308-311

6 - The course of assizes on the Western circuit 1586
pp 312-313

7 - Clerks of assize and associate clerks 1558–1714
pp 314-321

8 - Two documents relating to John Heath's disputed tenure of the Oxford Circuit clerkship 1643–60
pp 322-323

9 - Duties of the Oxford Circuit clerical staff c. 1650
pp 324-325

10 - Fees taken by the Oxford Circuit clerk of assize c. 1646–53
pp 326-330

11 - Order about the selection of juries made at the Somerset Lent Assizes 1648
pp 331-332

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