Excerpt from The General Eyre: Lectures Delivered in the University of London at the Request of the Faculty of LawsThe early English courts. The county court, its jurisdiction and those who were bound to attend it. The procedure thereat. The hundred and seignorial courts. Regalities usurped by these courts. Onerous duties cast upon freeholders. Commencement of the sys tem of itinerant justices in England. Sources of our knowledge of the eyres Proceedings immediately anterior to an eyre. Pre liminary proceedings in an eyre. Unhappy experiences of the mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of London In the eyre of 1321. Sup pression of markets and fairs during an eyre. Power of justices to billet in all houses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.