"Twelve Good Men and True" brings together some of the most
ambitious and innovative work yet undertaken on the history of an
English legal institution. These eleven essays examine the
composition of the criminal trial jury in England, the behavior of
those who sat as jurors, and popular and official attitudes toward
the institution of jury trial from its almost accidental emergence
in the early thirteenth century until 1800. The essays have
important implications for three problems central to the history of
criminal justice administration in England: the way in which the
medieval jury was informed and reached its verdict; the degree and
form of independence enjoyed by juries during the early modern
period when the powers of the bench were very great; and the role
of the eighteenth-century trial jury, which, although clearly
independent, was, by virtue of the status and experience of its
members, arguably a mere extension of the bench.
This extensive collection marks the first occasion on which
scholars working in several different time periods have focused
their attention on the history of a single legal institution.
Written by J. M. Beattie, J. S. Cockburn, Thomas A. Green, Roger D.
Groot, Douglas Hay, P.J.R. King, P. G. Lawson, Bernard William
McLane, J. B. Post, Edward Powell, and Stephen K. Roberts, the
essays utilize sophisticated techniques to establish from a variety
of manuscript sources the wealth, status, and administrative
experience of jurors.
Originally published in 1988.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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