Quarter Sessions Records for the Country of Somerset, Vol. 1: James I, 1607-1625 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Quarter Sessions Records for the Country of Somerset, Vol. 1: James I, 1607-1625The contents of this volume are the record of the work of the Court of Quarter Sessions in the period 1608 - 1625, so far as they relate to the administrative duties, and not to the judicial functions of the Justices of the Peace. It must be supposed that they knew rightly what matters should be the subject of an order and what of a trial but an examination of the business done will show that an order might Often include, or confirm, a sentence of considerable severity.By the reign of James I., the Court of Quarter Sessions was practically the centre of governance in the county, as the justice was the representative of law and order. The Sheriff and the County Court, as the keeper of the peace and the' lawful court of the freemen of the Shire, had been losing ground for some time before the police statute of Winchester in 1285 and that of Trailbaston in 1305 Showed that the Old English system of keeping the peace and administering justice required to be strengthened.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.