The Roll and Writ File of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248.

Einband leicht berieben. Schnitt etwas angeschmutzt. Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten. Aus dem Nachlass von Michael Richter. Mit Namensstempel auf Vorsatz. - Inhalt: The Eyre and its records in the reign of Henry III -- Eyres in Berkshire 1219-84 -- Franchises: special Eyre sessions and coroners -- Collection and allocation of the profits of justice -- Jurisdiction of sheriff and bailiffs within the county -- Execution of royal writs -- The Documents: Description and history of the roll -- Arrangement and contents of the roll -- The writ file: history, definition of terms, and description -- Relation of writs to pleas. Dates of issue of writs -- Writs concerning the county court and judicial writs -- Annotations on writs -- The jury panels -- APPENDICES TO THE INTRODUCTION: Early Common Law writ files -- Eyres in Berkshire 1219-84 -- Roger of Thirkleby's Eyre circuit 1246-49 -- Feet of fines made in the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 -- Presenting areas in Berkshire in 1248 -- Chief bailiwicks in Berkshire in 1248 -- Early sheriffs' precepts -- Frequency and provenance of civil pleas -- Writs transcribed and translated in full -- Similar writs on the file -- Concordance of writs and pleas -- Dates and places of issue of original writs -- Identical jury panels -- GUIDE TO THE PRINTING OF THE DOCUMENTS -- THE PLEA ROLL OF THE BERKSHIRE EYRE OF 1248 Berkshire civil pleas -- Foreign civil pleas -- Juries of presentment -- Berkshire crown pleas -- THE WRIT FILE OF THE BERKSHIRE EYRE OF 1248. - Aus Wikipedia: "An Eyre or Iter was the name of a circuit traveled by an itinerant justice in medieval England, or the circuit court he presided over, or the right of the king (or justices acting in his name) to visit and inspect the holdings of any vassal. The eyre involved visits and inspections at irregular intervals of the houses of all vassals in the kingdom, and often provoked terror in the populace; the 1233 Eyre of Cornwall, for example, caused most of the population to flee into the woods."