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The Civil Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240 (Hardcover)
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The Civil Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240 (Hardcover)
Series: Suffolk Records Society
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Edition and translation of an important legal document, shedding
new light on legal developments in medieval England. The eyre was
an organised judicial visitation to the counties of England by the
king's justices to hear all types of plea, civil and crown, as well
as to investigate any matters for the king that pertain to the
county; it was thusa hugely important part of the legal process.
This volume presents an edition and translation of the civil pleas
in the Suffolk Eyre Roll of 1240, now in the National Archives, the
first civil pleas from a Suffolk eyreroll to be fully published. It
throws light on common law in mid thirteenth-century England and
its application within the county. It shows that the development of
the King's justice in the counties was in accordance with the 13th
century De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, commonly called
Bracton after the 13th century judge, who supposedly wrote this
book of medieval jurisprudence. And, more widely, it also
illustrates the nature and government of local society and how
people at all levels fared in this particular eyre. The editor's
introduction provides a summary of the eyre system and an analysis
of those attending the eyre, the types of plea used and the outcome
of those pleas. It attempts to estimate how much money was raised
for the king and why the system became such a huge source of royal
revenue. Finally it provides reasons for the demise of the eyre
system in the latethirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
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