Published for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1888, these
two rolls for the sessions held in the West Riding of Yorkshire
document court proceedings for the years 1597/8-1602 and represent
the earliest extant material of their kind for the West Riding,
where quarter sessions were held in various towns during Epiphany,
Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas. Although the first roll is
incomplete, lacking the Epiphany sessions of 1597, the second roll
contains minutes of all the sessions for 1599-1602. The indictments
are drawn up in Latin, with interpolations and descriptions of the
verdicts in the English of the day. Editor John Lister (1847-1933)
describes in his introduction the workings of the courts and the
various types of indictments. Each entry also has extensive
explanatory footnotes. He prefaces the rolls with a 1595 account of
proceedings in the court of the Lord President and Council of the
North.
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