Examples of assize

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In the case of the assize grand jury the study of the period before 1714 is as yet impossible, due to lack of sources.
Problems arose simultaneously between the corporation and the cathedral, and between the corporation and the judges of assize.
Moreover, the relationship was stronger in counties with busy borough or city courts of session augmenting the county sessions and assize.
Certainly, both brewers and bakers were regularly fined for breaking the assize.
In the provinces, petitions were published from the pulpit and at the public meetings of quarter sessions and assizes.
Criminal prosecutions at the assizes almost invariably began by the submitting of bills of indictment, and supporting depositions, to the grand jury.
While the leading landowners of the county continued to play a part at the assizes, they were conspicuous by their absence from the sessions juries.
Over the following seven years he appeared on eight assize grand juries.
Sometimes royalists sold their property to a third party, as noted above, who was then able to make good claims at the assizes.
A copy was made to be presented at the next assizes for inclusion in the court records.
The number of these cases certainly suggests that, in practice, offences against the assize must have been viewed as commonplace and therefore not particularly serious.
In some few cases it appears that men became assize grand jurors after serving a form of apprenticeship at the quarter sessions.
The following analysis is based on a detailed search of county (tax lists, quarter session and assize rolls), parish and testamentary records.
In an age when central government impinged little upon the lives of the majority of the population, the administrative powers of assize juries were comparatively extensive and wideranging.
In this way, much of the preparatory work regarding projects such as road and bridge building was completed out of court, and the actual meetings at assizes were largely formalities.
Constitutional debates were only rarely conducted outside the assizes of the drafting groups, and in most cases the finished product, while often the subject of intense public discussion, remained unaltered.
Twenty-nine suspected rebels were sentenced to remain imprisoned without bail, thirteen were granted bail to appear at the next assizes, and twenty-nine more were freed by proclamation.
However, since there are no surviving assize or quarter sessions records for this period it is possible that some scolds committed serious crimes of which no trace survives.
He was forced to the trouble of obtaining a trial by special jury at the next assizes, and sent detailed advice to ensure a list of suitably compliant jurors.

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