Table of contents for Justice and grace

Table of contents for Justice and grace : private petitioning and the English parliament in the late Middle Ages / Gwilym Dodd.

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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Abbreviations xii
1. Introduction 1
PART I PRIVATE PETITIONS IN PARLIAMENT
2. The Emergence of Private Petitions 19
2.1 Beginnings 19
2.2 Motives 25
2.2.1 Pressures 26
2.2.2 Incentives 31
3. `High Noon'-Private Petitions, c.1290-c.1330 49
3.1 The Growth of Petitioning and the Growth of
Bureaucracy 50
3.2 Patterns of Petitioning, 1297-1325 60
3.3 Responding to the Petitions 78
4. Decline and Consolidation: Private Petitions in the Reign of
Edward III 89
4.1 The Triers 91
4.1.1 The Committees of Triers 91
4.1.2 The Work of the Triers 103
4.2 The Crown and Private Petitioning, 1327-1377 108
4.3 Contraction in the Fourteenth Century 116
5. `Common' Petitions in the Fourteenth Century 126
5.1 Phase One: The Antecedents-`Community Petitions' 128
5.2 Phase Two: The Commons' Petitions 133
5.3 Phase Three: Enrolled Common Petitions 142
6. Private Petitions in the Fifteenth Century 157
6.1 Enrolled Private Petitions 158
6.2 Private Petitions Addressed to the Commons 167
6.2.1 Petitions to the Lords 175
6.2.2 Petitions to the Commons 180
6.3 Common Petitions in the Fifteenth Century 188
PART II PRIVATE PETITIONS AND PRIVATE
PETITIONERS
7. Individual Petitioners 201
7.1 Preliminary Considerations 202
7.2 The Identity of Petitioners 207
7.2.1 Peasants 209
7.2.2 Women 213
7.2.3 Nobility 217
7.3 The Content of the Petitions 222
7.4 The King's Grace 234
8. Petitions from Communities 244
8.1 Petitions from the Clergy 245
8.2 Petitions from County Communities 256
8.3 Petitions from Towns 268
9. Writing and Presenting Private Petitions 281
9.1 Structure and Formulae 282
9.2 Language and Rhetoric 292
9.3 Writing and Presentation 304
Conclusion 317
Appendix 1. Rolls and Files 319
Appendix 2. The Evolution of the Petitionary Form 329
Bibliography 333
Index 361

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

England. Parliament -- History -- To 1500.
England. Parliament -- Private bills -- History -- To 1500.
Petition, Right of -- England -- History -- To 1500.