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The Assize of Northampton, largely based on the Assize of Clarendon of 1166, is among a series of measures taken by King Henry II of England that solidified...

Proclamation of 18 October 1258 Assize of Bread and Ale 1267 Grant of custom on exported wool, woolfells and hides 1275 Statute of the Jewry 1275 Distraint of knighthood...

century. "The intent was to use the Jewry as a reservoir equally open to receive and closed to retain the surplus wealth of the surrounding population, so...

1475, was called to be a Serjeant-at-law in 1503, a Justice of Assize in 1513, a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1518, and finally to the King's Bench in...

from being used for assize courts, the Great Hall was also used for sessions of the Parliament of England most notably the Parliament of Bats in 1426, when...

resembling the fashionable work of John Vanbrugh. The local architect John Carr then built the Assize Courts on the site of the old Jury House between 1773...

two official West German estimates. During the 1965 trial of Kurt Franz, the Court of Assize in Düsseldorf concluded that at least 700,000 people were...

p.489; Statutes of the Realm, i, pp.53–54. Statutes of the Realm, i, pp.55–68. The Welsh Assize Roll, p.266 Powicke (1966), p. 663. Rymer, Thomas, Foedera...

of Norwich. In 1181, the Assize of Arms forbade Jews from owning a hauberk or chain mail. The York Massacre of 1190, one of a series of massacres of Jews...

confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris. 1181 The Assize of Arms of 1181 orders that all weapons held by Jews must be confiscated, claiming...

farm of Feckenham Forest was unpaid for 12 years to 1242, and unpaid sums from his Walter's time also remained unpaid. William used powers of assize to...

trial of Thomas Becket in 1164, the publication of the Assize of Northampton in 1176, the declaration of peace with Scotland in the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton...

the Forest of Dartmoor. 1196 Spring – in London, a popular uprising of the poor against the rich is led by William Fitz Osbern. Assize of Measures establishes...

Instead of having to face one's accuser, new laws allowed the state to be the defendant and bring charges on its own behalf. The Assize of Arms of 1252 appointed...

bloodshed, encroachments, overcharging the common, breaches of the assize of ale and of weights and measures, and nuisance were heard. By 1310 the courts...

Richard II, Duke of Normandy, Rouen Jewry suffered from persecutions that were so terrible that many women, in order to escape the fury of the mob, jumped...

Roger of Lench, possibly the lord of the manor, and Stephen of Lench, initiated an assize of novel disseisin to prevent them, perhaps on behalf of the commoners...

1435), but he was benefactor of St Michael Cornhill and requested burial there. As Sheriff, Russ presided at an assize of frisca forcia at Westminster...