Twelve good men and true : the criminal trial jury in England, 1200-1800 / edited by J.S. Cockburn and Thomas A. Green.

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988.

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Jury -- Great Britain -- History.

Criminal procedure -- History.

1. The early-thirteenth-century criminal jury

2. Juror attitudes towards local disorder: the evidence of the 1328 trialbaston proceesings

3. Jury lists and juries in the late fourteenth century

4. Jury trial at goal delivery in the late middle ages: the midland circuit, 1400-1429

5. Lawless juries? The composition and behavior of Hertfordshire juries, 1573-1624

6. Twelve silly men? The trial jury at assizes, 1560-1670

7. Juries and the middling sort: recruitment and performance a Devon quarter sessions, 1649-1670

8. London juries in the 1690s

9. "Illiterate plebeians, easily misled": jury composition, experience, and behavior in Essex, 1735-1815

10. The class composition of the palladium of liberty: trial jurors in the eighteenth century

11. A retrospective on the criminal trial jury, 1200-1800.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

0691055114

xvii, 413 p. : ill. ; 25 cm