10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAILBASTON»
Discover the use of
trailbaston in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
trailbaston and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A systematic approach to the problem of law and order was clearly needed, and
special 'trailbaston' commissions were duly set up. The earliest appointment was
made in November 1304, when justices were given a specific brief to inquire ...
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Medieval Outlaws: Twelve Tales in Modern English Translation
Introduced and translated by Carter Revard The Outlaws Rap The Song of
Trailbaston was written between April 1305 and February 1307, but the sole
surviving copy of it was made about 1341, by a scribe who lived and worked in
Ludlow in ...
3
Medieval Justice: Cases and Laws in France, England, and ...
"Trailbaston" means "one who trails or carries a club or cudgel," i.e., a club-
wielding criminal. There was so little law and order in England toward the end of
Edward I's reign that special commissioners of trailbaston had to be set up (in
1305, ...
4
Violence in Medieval Society
trailbaston circuits with royal justices from the central courts, and gave them
authority comparable to that exercised by eyre justices.26 Trailbaston justices,
like the eyre justices, solicited presentments and tried a variety of pleas, but the
king ...
5
The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: ...
C A P. XXXIV. e [186] The Court of Justices of Trailbaston.v THESE justices fat by
force-of the kings commiffiossn of oier ' and terminer grotinded, as some hold,
upon an ordinance made by king E. I. and the lords at a parliament 'holden in ...
6
Public Order and Law Enforcement: The Local Administration ...
trailbaston justices also received instructions to take assizes and deliver gaols in
the counties they were to visit.25 This did not result in the discontinuation of the
previous assize circuits. Indeed, it is apparent that commissions to the existing ...
7
Institutes of the laws of England: containg the exposition ...
Justices. of. Trailbaston. • THESE justices fat by force of the kings commission of
oier and terminer grounded, as some hold, upon an ordinance made by king E. i.
and the lords at a parliament holden in anno 3 3 E. 1 . for the hasty proceeding.
8
Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272-1307
This resulted in the addition of conspiracy to the articles of trailbaston some time
after May 1305, and an Ordinance of Conspirators, defining conspiracy more
closely than ever before, between September and early November of the same ...
9
Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third
Jurisdiction and Proceedings under Commissions of Trailbaston. reports in the
present volume the Justices of Oyer and Terminer were quite distinct. The Court
of the Justices of Trailbaston was, so to speak, a connecting link between the ...
10
Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern
The early fourteenth-century anglo-norman poem tradi- tionally called The
Outlaw's Song of Trailbaston occupies a peculiar place in Robin Hood Studies.1
It is at once central to historically situated readings of medieval outlaw literatures;
yet, ...
Lois Potter, Joshua Calhoun, 2008
