The fray on the meadow: violence, and moment of government in early Tudor England
<p>On 14 September 1534, two men fought on a meadow outside the town of Weymouth, Dorset, watched by a crowd of their neighbours. Learning of the fight, one of the town constables charged between the men, and killed one of them, leading to his prosecution and subsequent appeal to the court of...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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