June 2013
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CHAPTER 21 |
The Organization of Traditional Authority: English County Government, 1558 to 16401 |
VERNON K. DIBBLE |
In February 1589, Sir Thomas Mildmay and Robert Clark examined suspected robbers in their native county of Essex. In March, Thomas Fanshawe settled a dispute over title to some property in the town of Barking. In May, Edmund Pirton compounded the claims of a bankrupt merchant's creditors. In August, Fanshawe joined Thomas Powle and former sheriff Robert Wroth in special watches occasioned by bands of wandering soldiers. In December, Thomas Gent investigated the “decay of trade” in the town of Halstead (Davies, 1956, p. 209).
These men were justices of the peace. In that office, they dispensed the queen's justice and administered ...
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