Twelve Good Men and True : : The Criminal Trial Jury in England, 1200-1800 / / ed. by Thomas A. Green, J. S. Cockburn.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- One. The Early-Thirteenth-Century Criminal Jury
- Two. Juror Attitudes toward Local Disorder: The Evidence of the 1328 Lincolnshire Trailbaston Proceedings
- Three. Jury Lists and Juries in the Late Fourteenth Century
- Four. Jury Trial at Gaol Delivery in the Late Middle Ages: The Midland Circuit, 1400-1429
- Five. Lawless Juries? The Composition and Behavior of Hertfordshire Juries, 1573-1624
- Six. Twelve Silly Men? The Trial fury at Assizes, 1560-1670
- Seven. Juries and the Middling Sort: Recruitment and Performance at Devon Quarter Sessions, 1649-1670
- Eight. London Juries in the 1690s
- Nine. "Illiterate Plebeians, Easily Misled": Jury Composition, Experience, and Behavior in Essex, 1735-1815
- Ten. The Class Composition of the Palladium of Liberty: Trial furors in the Eighteenth Century
- Eleven. A Retrospective on the Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800
- Notes on Contributors
- Index