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My earlier published work concerned my then home town of Colchester, in particular its population and the often devastating plagues in the 16th and 17th centuries. Mayor's Court Original Bills: Index to Persons (plaintiff, defendants and garnishees) appearing in the Mayor's Court Original Bills A-J (1 vol.
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To remedy this, in the early 13th century the Mayor and Sheriffs, and 2 or 3 Aldermen, were allowed to hear cases immediately from day to day, if the Court of Husting was not sitting.But despite this, their poor survival is inconsistent with the survival of other City records such as the Repertories, Journals and Roll of the Court of Husting. Christine Mangan’s tale of expats behaving badly in Morocco (set to be a film starring Scarlett Johansson). In the late 19th century, it was a real-life Downton Abbey, hosting royalty at shooting parties and society balls, with a fleet of staff below stairs keeping things running smoothly.
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The Crown by a series of charters had granted considerable judicial privileges to the City of London. Four of a total of eight (and a bit) volumes were calendared by Philip Jones and published in 1966 and 1970. As you walk through the ruins of Witley Court in Worcestershire, you can feel the ghosts of its past life as one of England’s great country houses.Husting Books contain brief details of cases heard week by week and include both Pleas of Land and Common Pleas 1448-1484; 1506-1723; 1838-1978 - CLA/023/CT/01/001-017. This site contains affiliate links, where I get a small commission from purchases at no extra cost to you. Alcoves, fireplaces and remnants of wall mouldings help you picture what it would’ve been like, decorated with paintings, sculptures and lavish fabrics. It was a three-part drama series under the title of Fallen Angel, starring Charles Dance and Emilia Fox. The ending left dangling threads which Taylor is clearly going to knot together, but not yet, since this is a series.
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Witley Court’s new owners were the Wards – Earls of Dudley – who had huge fortune from oil and coal mines in the Black Country and plantations in Jamaica. Following the Great Fire of London, Parliament established a court to settle all differences arising between landlords and tenants of burnt buildings, overseen by judges of the King's Bench, Court of Common Pleas and Court of Exchequer.It took a staff of 100 butlers, footmen, housemaids, cooks, gardeners and stablehands to keep the place running. The early records of the court are incomplete, but occasionally some proceedings are preserved amongst the series of Letter Books (COL/AD/01/001-050) which have been calendared and published. The conservation of the River Thames was entrusted to the citizens of London by a charter of 1197 and was exercised by the City of London Corporation until 1857.
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