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Introduction

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Camden Fourth Series , Volume 17: Western Circuit Assize Orders 1629–1648 A Calendar , July 1976 , pp. xi - xiv
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1976

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References

1 For the organization of assizes see Cockburn, Assizes; and for further information, with particular reference to the Western Circuit, the introductions to Assize Orders, i and ii.

2 Cal. Close 1323–27, p. 341Google Scholar; 9 Edw. III, Stat. 1, c. 5. Under 11 Hen. IV, c. 3 records were to be submitted every second year.

3 Gollancz, M., ‘Gaol Delivery in the Fifteenth Century’ (London Univ. M.A. Thesis, 1936), pp. 37, 45–46.Google Scholar

4 As early as 1380 the Western Circuit clerk had kept assize rolls in his chambers in the Old Temple: P.R.O., K.B. 27/493, Rex m. 14d.

5 Rep. of Cttee. on Legal Records [Cmd. 3084], H.C. (1966).Google Scholar

6 First Rep. Sel. Cttee. of House of Commons on Public Records, 1800, pp. 238–39Google Scholar; Second Rep. of Royal Com. on Public Records, 1910, App. II, p. 266Google Scholar. A fragmentary series of Midland Circuit indictments and other documents 1652–88 (P.R.O., Assi 80/1–19) was recovered from private custody in 1968.

7 P.R.O., Assi 35. The contents of all the surviving Home Circuit files for the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I are being published in calendar form by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

8 The volume was rebound in 1975.

9 ‘To be stitched in a very neat Forrell with stifning edges turned in; to be done by Friday evening without fail. Barnard’.

10 The drafting procedure is indicated in no. 1034 below. Some of the draft orders remained loose in the order books: e.g. nos. 318, 319, 489.

11 Infrequently the heading gives the name of both assize judges: e.g. nos. 447, 579, 1098.

12 See Assize Orders, ii, p. xxiv.Google Scholar

13 For a fuller account see Assize Orders, i, pp. x–xi.Google Scholar

14 The Dorset order is referred to in Som. R.O., Phelips MSS (Musters 1615–1667), f. 137. A copy of the Somerset order survives among the State Papers and is printed as no. 279A below.

15 Prynne, William, Canterburies Doome (London 1646), pp. 128–49, 154.Google Scholar

16 E.g. nos.220, 222, 407, 419, 463.

17 An example is cited in Assize Orders, i, p. xi, n. 3.Google Scholar

18 For examples of orders apparently entered some time after the relevant assizes see nos. 296, 297, 1064. Such a delay may explain the inclusion of an identical order under two different counties: nos. 1173, 1188.

19 This probably resulted in the omission from the order book of the orders made at the Wiltshire winter assizes 1636: see no. 419.

20 Nos. 17, 178, 195, 223, 279A, 470, 473, 496, 500, 602A, 613, 635, 651, 771, 821, 1025–28, 1041, 1075, 1156, 1190.

21 P.R.O., S.P. 16/212 (1632); C 193/13/2 (1634/5); S.P. 16/405 (1636); C 193/13/3 (1650).