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- Title
The great purge of 1625: ‘the late Murraine amongst the Gentlemen of the peace’.
- Authors
Wall, Alison
- Abstract
It is known that late in 1625 some county J.P.s were dismissed, but close investigation reveals there was in fact a major purge. On 22 December 1625, chancery issued new commissions of the peace to remove justices. But how can we discover who, how many, and why? For at least 20 counties we can reconstruct the composition of the commissions of the peace, and show that between thirty and forty per cent of J.P.s were abruptly dismissed. It was not only the lazy or the insignificant that lost their places, but nobles, knights and those who had carried the burden of sessions work – especially if they had opposed King Charles and the duke of Buckingham.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; JUSTICES of the peace; COURTS of first instance; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (Law); CHURCH &; state; BACON, Francis, 1561-1626; CHARLES I, King of England, 1600-1649; BRITISH politics &; government, 1603-1649
- Publication
Historical Research, 2009, Vol 82, Issue 218, p677
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2281.2008.00472.x