Calendar of Assize Records, Elizabeth and James I

FAIN: RE-*0515-77

University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
J. S. Cockburn (Project Director: November 1976 to October 1990)

To complete a ten volume calendar series of unique 16th and early 17th century criminal court records. The five English counties concerned are grouped around London and are the only place where such records have survived for this period. This period is of exceptional importance in the development of English criminal law and trial procedure.