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Crime and Punishment: Medieval Enforcement Part 2
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- 1Which courts in the medieval period heard the most serious cases?Royal Courts
- 2Jurors in the Royal courts would be drawn from where?The criminal's own area
- 3In 1293 Edward I ordered that royal judges from London to visit each county to try cases of serious crime. What do we call the courts they held?The county assizes
- 4Which group of law enforcement officials came into being in 1361?JPs (Justices of the peace)
- 5What were the quarter sessions?They were the four times a year that the JPS met in the counties to enforce royal law.
- 6Which courts dealt with most crime medieval England?The Manor Courts
- 7Who ran the manor courts?The lord or his steward
- 8Why were manor courts losing influence by 1500?JPs heard more and more cases
- 9What was the role of watchmen?To patrol the gates and walls of medieval towns at night
- 10What name is given to courts run in the towns?Borough courts
- 11Which courts were most likely to deal with offences such as, offences concerning priests, sex outside of marriage, homosexuality, failing to attend church, gambling.Church courts
- 12Who was responsible for hearing the evidence and passing judgment in the church courts?Priests
- 13Why were medieval juries selected from a defendant's parish or hundred?They were expected to use their knowledge of a person's character, background and past offences to reach a verdict.
- 14Except for treason, roughly how many people accused of crime in the middle ages were found not guilty?over 50%
- 15Why might medieval juries have been reluctant to find people guilty of serious offences?Punishments for serious offences were exceptionally harsh.
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