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Jurors, Respectable Masculinity, and Christian Morality: A Comment on Marjorie McIntosh's Controlling Misbehavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Shannon McSheffrey
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Symposium: Controlling (Mis)Behavior
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 3: Controlling (Mis)Behavior: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives , July 1998 , pp. 269 - 278
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1998

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1 McIntosh, Marjorie, Controlling Misbehavior in England, 1370–1600 (hereafter cited as CM) (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 8, 25–28, 39–40, 128–34, 188–95, 209CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Ibid., pp. 17–18, 37–39, 54, 70–73, 96–107.

3 Ibid., pp. 70–72; also argued in McIntosh, Marjorie, “Finding Language for Misconduct: Jurors in Fifteenth-Century Local Courts,” in Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England, ed. Hanawalt, Barbara A. and Wallace, David (Minneapolis, 1995), pp. 87–122Google Scholar.

4 McIntosh, CM, pp. 38–39.

5 Ibid., pp. 12–13, 96–97, 191.

6 Goheen, R. B., “Peasant Politics? Village Community and the Crown in Fifteenth-Century England,” American Historical Review 96 (1991): 42–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 McIntosh, CM, pp. 8, 10, and 36; cf. pp. 24, 25, 27, 33, 37, 54, 56, 82, 83, 96, 127, 206.

8 Ibid., pp. 24–25; on medieval communities, see, e.g., “Special Issue: Vill, Guild, and Gentry: Forces of Community in Later Medieval England,” Journal of British Studies, vol. 33, no. 4 (October 1994)Google Scholar.

9 McIntosh, CM, pp. 36–37.

10 Ibid., pp. 108, 127; cf. pp. 24, 168, 177, 206.

11 London, Guildhall Library (GL), MS 9065, Commissary Court of London Deposition Book, 1489–97, fols. 182r–183v.

12 McIntosh, CM, pp. 12–13, 96–97, 191.

13 London, Greater London Record Office, MS DL/C/205, Consistory Court of London Deposition Book, 1467–76, fols. 191r–193r; parts translated in McSheffrey, Shannon, Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London (Kalamazoo, Mich., 1995), pp. 84–85Google Scholar. When Chylde later sued him in the Consistory Court to uphold the contract, Rote claimed that the contract he had made was conditional on Chylde's good governance.

14 GL, MS 9065, fols. 48v–49v, 53v–55r; GL, MS 9064/1, Commissary Court of London Act Book, 1470–73, fol. 134r.

15 McIntosh, CM, pp. 73–74.

16 See my “Men and Masculinity in Late Medieval London Civic Culture: Governance, Patriarchy, and Reputation,” in Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, ed. Murray, Jacqueline (New York, in press)Google Scholar; Stephanie Tarbin of the Department of History, Australian National University, also makes an argument along these lines in “Tropes of Behaviour: The Prosecution of Sexual Misconduct in Fifteenth-Century London” (article in preparation).

17 McIntosh, CM, pp. 7, 33–34, 40–45, 136.

18 Ibid., pp. 70–72, and “Finding Language,” pp. 90, 97.

19 McIntosh, CM, p. 72.

20 Corporation of London Record Office (CLRO), Letter Book K, 1422–61, fol. 179r (calendared in Calendar of Letter Books Preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London [CLB], Letter Books A–L, ed. Sharpe, Reginald R. [London, 1899–1912], CLBK, pp. 230–31)Google Scholar. About 1384, the correction of bawds, adulterers, and whores was ordered “al plesance de dieu, saluacion de lour almes, et netture et honestete de la dicte Citee” (CLRO, Letter Book H, 1375–99, fol. 146v); also in Riley, Henry Thomas, ed., Liber Albus, Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, Rolls Series, vol. 12, pt. 1 (London, 1859), pp. 457–60Google Scholar. McIntosh makes reference to this latter ordinance in CM, p. 205, n. 73.

21 CLRO, Journal of the Court of Common Council, vol. 9, 1482–92, fol. 17r; also recorded in CLRO, Letter Book L, 1461–97, fol. 189v (transcribed in CLBL, p. 206).

22 CLRO, Journal of the Court of Common Council, vol. 10, 1493–1506, fol. 10v; see also CLRO, Journal of the Court of Common Council, vol. 7, 1462–72, fol. 193r, Journal of the Court of Common Council, vol. 8, 1470–82, fol. 177r, and Journal of the Court of Common Council, vol. 10, fol. 148r.

23 CLRO, Plea and Memoranda Rolls, Roll A66, 1439, m. 5a (Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall, 1323–1482, 6 vols., ed. Thomas, A. H. and Jones, Philip E. [Cambridge, 1926–1961], 5:13–14Google Scholar).

24 “Quod amplius non peccet” (CLRO, Journal of the Court of Common Council, vol. 3, 1436–42, fol. 18r); cf. John 8:11.

25 CLRO, Letter Book I, 1400–22, fol. 289r. For these punishments, see Riley, , Liber Albus, pp. 456–60Google Scholar; CLRO, Letter Book H, fol. 146v; Letter Book K, fol. 179r (calendared in CLBK, pp. 230–31).

26 CLRO, Letter Book K, fol. 11v (calendared in CLBK, p. 17).

27 McIntosh, CM, pp. 187–88, 195–200.

28 Harris, M. D., ed., Coventry Leet Book, 1420–1555 (4 pts. continuously paginated), Early English Text Society, Original Series, vols. 134, 135, 138, 146 (London, 1907–1913), pp. 219–20, 278, 544–46, 552, 568Google Scholar.

29 Ibid., p. 278, quote at p. 544.

30 McIntosh, CM, p. 201, n. 62; the latter point I have inferred from her use of the Coventry example in her section on the influence of the Reformation after 1520.

31 McSheffrey, Shannon, Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420–1530 (Philadelphia, 1995), pp. 37–46Google Scholar.

32 James, Mervyn, “Ritual, Drama and Social Body in the Late Medieval English Town,” Past and Present, no. 98 (1983): 3–29Google Scholar.

33 Harris, , ed., Coventry Leet Book, p. 662Google Scholar; cf. CLBI, p. 276.

34 Phythian-Adams, Charles, Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1979), pp. 102, 112, 118–25, 137–39Google Scholar; Harris, M. D. and Templeman, G., eds., Register of the Holy Trinity Guild, Coventry, 2 vols., Dugdale Society vols. 13, 19 (1935, 1944), 1:xviiiGoogle Scholar; Hanawalt, Barbara A. and McRee, Ben R., “The Guilds of Homo prudens in Late Medieval England,” Continuity and Change 1 (1992): 163–79CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

35 Duffy's, Eamon book, The Stripping of the Altars (New Haven, Conn., 1992)Google Scholar, describes similar ideas, although Duffy ascribes this style of Catholicism to a much wider proportion of the population than I do.

36 I argue this at greater length in Gender and Heresy, pp. 37–46, 124–36.