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Assize file, South-Western Circuit (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire,...

Catalogue reference: JUST 4/4/37

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This record is about the Assize file, South-Western Circuit (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire,... dating from 18-22 Edw III in the series Justices in Eyre and Justices of Assize: files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
JUST 4/4/37
Date
18-22 Edw III
Description

Assize file, South-Western Circuit (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire).

Justices: William de Shareshull [Shareshill], John de Stouford [Stowford] and Hamo de Derworthy.

Broken file, reconstructed from loose membranes found in various locations. The upper part of the file, containing documents for Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire, remains largely on two sections of the original thong, knotted at the top. However, relatively few documents have been discovered from the lower part of the file, covering Hampshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, and the membranes which do survive are clearly not in their original order.

(c. 800 mm)

The two concurrent assize rolls for this circuit are at JUST 1/1430 and JUST 1/1434; this file would seem to relate to the latter.

Note
Added from unsorted miscellanea Jan 2010
Related material

For a related assize roll see JUST 1/1434

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11689555/

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