The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society volume XXI
‘Calendar of the roll of the justices on eyre, 1247’, G. Herbert Fowler. The commission for the Eyre was issued on 25 May 1247 to hear the pleas of the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Bedford, Buckingham and seven others. Four justices sat for four weeks, from late September to late October, at Bedford and two of them spent two days in Dunstable on 29 and 30 September. The book’s introduction explains the procedure of the Eyre and the type of cases heard by the court.
The roll has 873 entries which have been abstracted in English. The cases include civil (eg property) cases, ecclesiastical matters, sudden death, theft and crime generally. Jurors of the hundreds also presented crimes and there is a list of the presenting juries.
About the author
Dr G. Herbert Fowler (1861-1940) was a zoologist working in London before he retired to Bedfordshire, where he became a county councillor and chairman of the county’s Records Committee in 1913. He immediately reformed the existing record room, established standard procedures and ran it as a public service, the first in the country. He was a founder member of BHRS in 1912 and its Secretary, General Editor and principal contributor to the annual volumes until his death. He also published extensively on sources in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere.
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