Part Two - ASSIZES AND GAOL DELIVERY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
Summary
The service that we are to perform at this time is to maintain and to continue the public peace by the execution of the public justice, a work so noble and so worthy that I doubt whether any temporal business that can be done in the life of man be comparable unto it.
From the preamble to the charge given to the grand jury by Serjeant John Davis at York Assizes Lent 1620: B. M. Harl. MS. 7581, ff. 61–62v.- Type
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- A History of English Assizes 1558–1714 , pp. 63 - 64Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972