One of these institutions at Oxford was dubbed "the Black" when a supposed curse uttered by Rowland Jencks causedhundreds of onlookers to be stricken with typhus and die in 1577.
One of these institutions at Oxford was dubbed "the Black" when a supposed curse uttered by Rowland Jencks causedhundreds of onlookers to be stricken with typhus and die in 1577. These entities were commissioned by the provision of Oyerand Terminer, and their namesake acts included darrein presentment, mort d'ancestor, and novel disseisin. They had a betterreputation than Quarter Sessions, though both were abolished together in 1971. An edict named for these institutions wasproclaimed in 1166 by Henry II from Clarendon. An infamous one was held partly at Taunton Castle, and sealed the fate of the elderly widow Alice Lisle, as well as Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, in the wake of the Rye House Plot. That examplewas presided over by George Jereys, the "Hanging Judge." For 10 points, name these periodic criminal courts in English law,such as the ones held aftfter the Monmouth Rebellion, which were known as the "Bloody" ones.
One of these institutions at Oxford was dubbed "the Black" when a supposed curse uttered by Rowland Jencks causedhundreds of onlookers to be stricken with typhus and die in 1577.
Assizes [or Courts of Assize, prompt on general answers like "English Criminal Trials/Courts," "courts," "English courts," "British courts," "Turnabout Britain," etc.]