The Transformation of the Keepers of the Peace into the Justices of the Peace 1327–1380
@article{Putnam1929TheTO, title={The Transformation of the Keepers of the Peace into the Justices of the Peace 1327–1380}, author={Bertha Haven Putnam}, journal={Transactions of the Royal Historical Society}, year={1929}, volume={12}, pages={19 - 48} }
For an adequate understanding of the significance of the “keepers” and the “justices” of the peace, precise answers are needed to several questions. How frequent were breaches of the peace and crimes of violence in the reign of Edward III? Was the situation worse than in the reign of his father or than in the time of the Paston Letters? The orthodox view of the universal prevalence of violence, long ago vividly presented by the late L. Owen Pike, has been recently challenged in an article on…
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