Table of Contents

Why 1199? Bureaucracy and Enrolment under John and his Contemporaries - Nicholas C. Vincent
The English Royal Chancery in the Thirteenth Century - David Carpenter
Finance on a shoestring: The Exchequer in the Thirteenth Century - Nick Barratt
The Local Administration of Justice: A reappraisal of the 'Four Knights' System - Anthony Musson
The Mortmain Licensing System, 1280-1307 - Paul A Brand
Women as Sheriffs in Early Thirteenth Century England - Louise J. Wilkinson
King and Lord: The Monarch and his demesne tenants in central Nottinghamshire, 1163-1363 - David Crook

About the Author

ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

Reviews

A useful and illuminating collection of essays.
*HISTORY, JULY 2005*