The commission of the peace, 1675-1720
<p>In the period from 1675 to 1720, the Justices of the peace in the English and Welsh counties were appointed by royal authority delegated to the Lord Chancellor. The Chancellor thus possessed a formidable instrument of patronage, which he operated both by power of appointment and by power of...
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1973
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