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Excerpt from Beverley Town Documents
There can be few municipal records which give a more succinct and complete view of the laws and legal customs prevalent in an English mediaeval town than the Great Gild Book of Beverley, whence the bulk of the present volume is drawn. It presents a code Of the laws of the domestic forum of what in after days would be called the corporation of the town drawn Up at the beginning of the fifteenth century, with later additions up to 1582, and similar codes of the minor corporations of the craft gilds, imperia in imperio, which were nominally subject to and constituted by the town corporation, but in fact Often controlled it.
To present as complete a picture as possible of the constitutional law of the town, the extracts from the Great Gild Book have been prefaced with some documents of an earlier date, the latter half of the fourteenth century, drawn from a small folio, bound in parchment, in the possession of the Town Council, written on paper, in the early part of the reign of Henry VI., and so called here the Paper Register.
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There can be few municipal records which give a more succinct and complete view of the laws and legal customs prevalent in an English mediaeval town than the Great Gild Book of Beverley, whence the bulk of the present volume is drawn. It presents a code Of the laws of the domestic forum of what in after days would be called the corporation of the town drawn Up at the beginning of the fifteenth century, with later additions up to 1582, and similar codes of the minor corporations of the craft gilds, imperia in imperio, which were nominally subject to and constituted by the town corporation, but in fact Often controlled it.
To present as complete a picture as possible of the constitutional law of the town, the extracts from the Great Gild Book have been prefaced with some documents of an earlier date, the latter half of the fourteenth century, drawn from a small folio, bound in parchment, in the possession of the Town Council, written on paper, in the early part of the reign of Henry VI., and so called here the Paper Register.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Arthur F. Leach
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780265253182
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 318
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Contributors
Author
Arthur F. Leach
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781332167197
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Page Count - 320
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