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English History: The Rise of the Jury

English History:The Rise of the Jury

There is a long history of trial by jury in England, which date to the 11^th century and were cemented in the 12^th century. The following are historical documents describing how the jury came to be used in English trials.

Titles

Origin of the Jury

The Sources

Abbot of St. Augustine’ Claim to a Ship.

Title of the Domesday Inquest for Ely.

Claim of Abbot of St. Augustine to Customs at Newington.

Monks of St. Stephen Versus the King’ Tenants.

Writ of the Earl of Essex in Favor of the Canons of St. Martin.

Constitutions of Clarendon.

The Assize of Clarendon.

Articles from the Assize of Northampton.

Tractatus De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliœ.

Typical Civil Pleas Before the Justices of the Bench and Before the Justices in Eyre.

Typical Pleas of the Crown Before the Justices Itinerant.

Typical Pleas of the Crown Before the Justices Itinerant in Gloucestershire.