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The Crown Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240 (Hardcover)
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The Crown Pleas of the Suffolk Eyre of 1240 (Hardcover)
Series: Suffolk Records Society
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Edition of the records of a medieval Suffolk eyre reveal rich
details of life at the time. 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 thus a
hugely important part of the legal process. This volume, edited by
Eric Gallagher with an introduction by Henry Summerson, follows on
from Dr Gallagher's edition and translation of the civil pleas of
the same eyre, published by the Suffolk Records Society in 2009.
But whereas the civil pleas deal primarily with litigation between
landowners, the crown pleas are mostly concerned with the actions
of townsmen and peasants, recorded both as killers and thieves, and
as the victims of crime. Like the civil pleas, the crown pleas
illuminate the workings of the common law, but in addition they
illustrate the functions and purposes of local and central
government, shedding light in sometimes vivid detail upon the lives
of the humbler members of society, upon their occupations,
relationships, misfortunes and quarrels - and the sometimes bizarre
ways in which they met their deaths. The eyre was led by William of
York, the King's justiciar and later bishop of Salisbury, and his
colleagues who met at Ipswich, Cattishall (outside Bury St Edmunds)
and Dunwich. The eyre roll, now in the National Archives, is the
first from Suffolk surviving in full to have been edited and
published; it has the particular interest of coming from a county
that was then one of the most populous and prosperous of English
shires.
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