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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Gaol Delivery Fiats were the product of a court sitting under the king’s commission of Assize Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery. They are orders issued by the court and signed by the Judges. By a charter of 1373 Bristol had been made a county in its own right with its own sheriff on the grounds that it was difficult for Bristolians to leave their business to attend assizes in Gloucester and Ilchester. It was to have its own Court of Assize court of Quarter Sessions and a court of the Mayor and sheriff. In 1499 a body of five Aldermen one of whom was the Recorder was established in Bristol. The aldermen were to be justices of the peace and were to be appointed by the mayor and commonalty and not by a commission of the crown. In his charter the king stated that ‘We have granted… to the aforesaid Mayor and Commonalty and to the said five Aldermen (of whom the Mayor and Recorder of the said Town shall be o) that they may be Justices of the Peace… to deliver all the said prisoners within the said Town of Bristol the Liberties and Precincts of the same… from time to time as often as need shall be according to the Law and Custom of the Kingdom of England. (LL)