Series details JUST 1

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JUST Records of itinerant justices and other court records

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Record Summary

Title

Justices in Eyre, of Assize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of the Peace, etc: Rolls and Files

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English, French and Latin

Former reference (Department)

Former reference (PRO)

Creator names

Justices in Eyre, c 1166-1374
Justices of Assize, c 1166-1971
Justices of Oyer and Terminer, c 1248-1971
Justices of the Peace, c 1264-
Justices of Gaol Delivery, c 1166-1971

Covering dates

1198-1528

Physical description

1603 files and rolls

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Custodial history

The earlier plea rolls and files were kept by the justices or their clerks before being handed in to the Exchequer, which became normal practice from 1257. For details see PRO Handbook no. 21, pp. 12-30. Much detail about their subsequent history can be obtained from the introductions to the Curia Regis Rolls series, volumes XI-XVIII, even though they relate specifically to the rolls in KB 26

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Held by

The National Archives, Kew

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Scope and content
Arrangement	The first section ( JUST 1/1-1170) includes records relating to individual counties, arranged alphabetically by county, and under each county in chronological order; the second section ( JUST 1/1171-1547) is of documents covering a number of counties, arranged in chronological sequence; the third ( JUST 1/1548-1562) comprises items relating to various counties; the concluding sequence ( JUST 1/1563-1603) is a random sequence of records identified and added since the original arrangment was made at the end of the nineteenth century.
Publication note	Many of the records have been printed, especially by the Selden Society and various county record societies, including virtually all the eyre rolls before 1222, and nearly all the peace rolls. Nearly all the quo warranto proceedings in eyre were published in Placita de Quo Warranto (Record Commission, 1818). There is a detailed guide to eyre records in Records of the General Eyre (PRO Handbooks no. 20). A separate catalogue of the assize rolls in JUST 1, from 1206 to 1481, including indexes of justices, counties, venues, dates and litigants and properties in special assizes separately enrolled, has been published in List and Index Society, volume 220. Printed trailbaston material includes the Calendar of London Trailbaston Trials under Commissions of 1305 and 1306 (1975). Records of the trial of Walter Langton are printed in Camden Fourth Series, vol. 6. Transcripts of a great deal of the material from the peace rolls is to be found in Proceedings before the Justices of the Peace in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Edward III to Richard III, edited by B H Putnam (Ames Foundation, 1938). Transcripts of some entries from the rolls of justices of labourers is in B H Putnam, The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers, 1349-1359 (New York, 1908).
Unpublished finding aids	A separate list of the surviving special oyer and terminer proceedings in JUST 1, including indexes of justices, counties, venues, dates and persons and places, is available in the reading rooms; it includes entries for those cases enrolled in assize rolls in the later thirteenth century.
Related material	There are extensive selected abstracts, including indexes, by Arthur Agarde in IND 1/17083-17098. A few other eyre records are in: E 32 E 198 SC 5 Eyre records from the Palatinate of Chester are in CHES 17 Fifteenth century records of oyer and terminer proceedings, together with further peace rolls, are in files now in KB 9 Recorda of eyre proceedings are in KB 145 Some other eyre rolls from 1194 to 1209 are in KB 26 W K Boyd's notes on the rolls are in PRO 66/1/2
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