No9 The Charters Of The Borough Of Southampton

Author : H. W. Gidden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332344553
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Charters of the Borough of Southampton, Vol. 1 written by H. W. Gidden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Charters of the Borough of Southampton, Vol. 1: Edited, With Introduction and Notes, John Edward IV (A. D. 1199-1480) In the second clause of this Charter it is forbidden to put burgesses on juries to which strangers are appointed. We take this to mean that strangers, that is to say, non-burgesses, are not to be impanelled with burgesses. At the first glance this is unimportant, but on closer examination it will be seen that hereafter the packing of juries was made practically impossible. In 1285 it had been ordained that the qualification for a jury man Within his own borough was the ability to spend twenty shillings a year. If he were able to Spend forty shillings a year, he could be impanelled on any jury within or without his borough. So that until this concession was made it was possible for strangers to be brought within the town and sit on juries to the prejudice of those burgesses whose cases were on trial. The court, of which the juries are a part, thus purified, was to be held within the borough. Hence there would be no overawing by the sheriff or by other influential men without the borough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.