This richly detailed study examines the English criminal trial and the nature and scope of the most prevalent felonies during the period c. 1300-1550. There is particular emphasis on the accusation process (studied in depth here for the first time, showing how it was, in effect, a trial within a trial); the discovery of a veritable revolution in conviction rates between the early fifteenth century and the later sixteenth (why this revolution occurred is explained in detail); the nature and scope of the most prevalent types of felony in the period; and the startling contrast between the conviction rate and the frequency of actual punishment.
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J.G. Bellamy is Professor of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of numerous books on medieval English legal history, including Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages (University of Toronto Press/Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973), and Bastard Feudalism and the Law (Routledge, 1989).
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While the functioning of the petty jury in cases of felony in the later middle ages has of late attracted considerable attention from historians, the role of the accusing jury has aroused much less interest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indicting jurors, gaol delivery records, gaol delivery sessions, inquisicio capta, petty jurors, suspect felons, indicting jury, presenting jurors, felony conviction rate, felonious theft, gaol delivery justices, gaol delivery rolls, peace sessions, peace rolls, rape indictments, petty jury, crown pleas, plea rolls, chance medley, indictment process, assize records, petty juries, eastern circuit, bastard feudalism, felony suspects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Year Books, Selden Society, State Trials, State Papers, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Smith, Thomas More, Assize Introduction, Select Cases, Star Chamber, Early Treatises, Law Quarterly Rev, Acts of the Privy Council, Carleton University, British Academy, Inns of Court, John Udall, John Vane Salisbury, Kent Keepers of the Peace, Les Plees del Coron, Liber Assisarum, Placita Corone, Statute of Westminster, Camden Society, Law Rev New!
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While the functioning of the petty jury in cases of felony in the later middle ages has of late attracted considerable attention from historians, the role of the accusing jury has aroused much less interest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indicting jurors, gaol delivery records, gaol delivery sessions, inquisicio capta, petty jurors, suspect felons, indicting jury, presenting jurors, felony conviction rate, felonious theft, gaol delivery justices, gaol delivery rolls, peace sessions, peace rolls, rape indictments, petty jury, crown pleas, plea rolls, chance medley, indictment process, assize records, petty juries, eastern circuit, bastard feudalism, felony suspects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Year Books, Selden Society, State Trials, State Papers, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Smith, Thomas More, Assize Introduction, Select Cases, Star Chamber, Early Treatises, Law Quarterly Rev, Acts of the Privy Council, Carleton University, British Academy, Inns of Court, John Udall, John Vane Salisbury, Kent Keepers of the Peace, Les Plees del Coron, Liber Assisarum, Placita Corone, Statute of Westminster, Camden Society, Law Rev New!
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- The Laws of the Earliest English Kings by F L(ed Attenborough on page 89, and Back Matter
- Medieval England: From Hastings to Bosworth by Edmund King in Front Matter, and page 49
- Bastard Feudalism and the Law by John G. Bellamy in Front Matter, and page 56
- The Birth of the English Common Law (Cambridge Paperback Library) by R. C. van Caenegem in Front Matter, and page 49
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- Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by K. J. Kesselring on 8 pages
- Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Garthine Walker on page 195, and Back Matter
- Boundaries Of The Law: Geography, Gender And Jurisdiction In Medieval And Early Modern Europe by Anthony Musson on page 97
- Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland by Michael J. Braddick in Back Matter
- The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England by Emily Steiner in Front Matter
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