A History of English Assizes; 1558-1714 (Publisher series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History.) by Cockburn, J.S

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [0-521-08449-0] 1972. (Hardcover) 372pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Notes, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is lightly soiled on the spine and there is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. "This book is primarily an account of the most familiar and longest lived of English courts during the most critical as well as the most influential period of its history. It describes all aspects of the court's work, personnel, jurisdiction, and constitutional position, throws incidental light on the nature of local administration and government, and examines the thesis that the function of assizes was governmental - as a main channel of communication between central government and provincial authority - as well as being judicial". Book about Assizes, Court Cases, Court Officials. Time Period 16th Century, 17th Century & 18th Century. Publisher series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History. (Law, Government--England, History--England, Judges, Law).