By Caroline Burt
This crucial exploration of the reign of Edward I - certainly one of England's so much lionised, feared and profitable monarchs - offers his kingship in an intensive new gentle. via specific case experiences of Shropshire, Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt examines how Edward's governance at a countrywide point was once mirrored in several localities. She employs novel method to degree degrees of sickness and the consequences of presidency motion, and uncovers a remarkably refined method of governance. This examine combines an empirical exam of presidency with an figuring out of constructing political rules and ideological motivation and contributes in the direction of a better figuring out of the improvement of neighborhood govt and politics in England within the 13th and fourteenth centuries. Edward emerges as a king with a coherent set of rules in regards to the governance of his realm, either intellectually and virtually, whose achievements have been much more awesome than has formerly been recognized.
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It meant, as we have noted, that a 74 75 See Table 3a. The same issue arose when he was at war in the 1290s. See Figures 2b, 2c and 2d. 20 Introduction dispute had not been resolved. Excluding repeat cases would, besides, give an incomplete impression of the amount of litigation from each county in a given year. The counting of ‘processes’ in King’s Bench, and numbers of commissions of oyer and terminer and enquiry is, of course, nothing new. 76 However, they have never been viewed together and in the context of any significant nationwide trends (in other words, the dramatic peaks and troughs at that level that have already been alluded to above), something which has made this study distinctly broader than anything which has gone before, and has enabled more comment on levels of disorder and its nature than would have been possible had the data collected been more limited.
A. F. Meekings, Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1249, Wiltshire Record Society, 16 (Devizes:, 1961); H. Summerson, Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, vol. 28 (Exeter, 1985). D. Crook, Records of the General Eyre, Public Record Office Handbooks (London, 1982), 139, 142, 152, 158, 175, 176. See below, 85, 152. 22 Introduction seen as indicative of how bad the situation on the ground was. 81 We should, of course, be extremely careful about taking accusations at face value, and it will be seen below that the contents of the returns, in both cases, have to be handled with care.
Excluding repeat cases would, besides, give an incomplete impression of the amount of litigation from each county in a given year. The counting of ‘processes’ in King’s Bench, and numbers of commissions of oyer and terminer and enquiry is, of course, nothing new. 76 However, they have never been viewed together and in the context of any significant nationwide trends (in other words, the dramatic peaks and troughs at that level that have already been alluded to above), something which has made this study distinctly broader than anything which has gone before, and has enabled more comment on levels of disorder and its nature than would have been possible had the data collected been more limited.
