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how the the
hundred courts. On 13 the
to the of
The king to the of . . . We
you that In your full county yen say to the
good men of your that they elect from aino::^ them-
selves four of the lawful and knights, v*"ho are
to be before us at Westminster, three the feast of
St. Michael, for the whole county, for the purpose of thtre
showing the complaint, if they have any* against you in
regard to the articles in the charter cf hbtTtks
granted to them; yon yourself are then to be* there to
show reason for the which you them.
. . « And you are to the the
names of the knights . . . writ. Witness the
king at Northampton* the of the
eleventh year, etc.
This language no the
were to be regarded as in the
they were to for the county. It is
certain that they to be popularly elected in so far
as that could be in the courts of
those days. And they to up
respective counties to at the time place*
Before whom or with whom were they to at West-
minster? The writ no the do
not, but in view of the activities of the
Council throughout the minority just the of
business to be considered at this the
presence of the Mng, and the of it
safe to conclude that it the Council. We
nothing of a great council meeting on
The main purpose of assembling of the
was, it is clear, to get inforroatioxi—information of an unoffi-
cial sort, the people's side of the story. . „ . They
juries representing the honesty and knowledge of their re-
spective localities; and popularly in order that this