Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- The English and the Welsh in Fouke le Fitz Waryn
- Royal Piety in Thirteenth-century Scotland: The Religion and Religiosity of Alexander II (1214–49) and Alexander III (1249–86)
- The 1213 Pipe Roll and Exchequer Authority at the End of John's Reign
- The Public Debate during the Baronial Rebellion
- Richard of Cornwall and the Baronial Opposition in 1263
- Les liens personnels entre les cours de France et d'Angleterre sous le règne de Philippe III, 1270–85
- The Lay Opposition to Edward I in 1297: Its Composition and Character
- Peacekeepers and Lawbreakers in London, 1276–1321
- ‘The peace less kept’? The Origins, Revelations and Impact of Edward I's ‘Trailbaston’ Commissions of 1305–7
- Notes and Documents
- Knightly Society and the Augustinian Canons in the North-west of England
- A Year in the Life of a Royal Justice. Gilbert de Preston's Itinerary, July 1264–June 1265
- Living with Father's Reputation: The Careers of Two Thirteenth-century Oxfordshire Knights of Alien Origin, Thomas de Bréauté and Hugh de Plessis
- The Charters of Richard of Cornwall for the Empire
A Year in the Life of a Royal Justice. Gilbert de Preston's Itinerary, July 1264–June 1265
from Notes and Documents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- The English and the Welsh in Fouke le Fitz Waryn
- Royal Piety in Thirteenth-century Scotland: The Religion and Religiosity of Alexander II (1214–49) and Alexander III (1249–86)
- The 1213 Pipe Roll and Exchequer Authority at the End of John's Reign
- The Public Debate during the Baronial Rebellion
- Richard of Cornwall and the Baronial Opposition in 1263
- Les liens personnels entre les cours de France et d'Angleterre sous le règne de Philippe III, 1270–85
- The Lay Opposition to Edward I in 1297: Its Composition and Character
- Peacekeepers and Lawbreakers in London, 1276–1321
- ‘The peace less kept’? The Origins, Revelations and Impact of Edward I's ‘Trailbaston’ Commissions of 1305–7
- Notes and Documents
- Knightly Society and the Augustinian Canons in the North-west of England
- A Year in the Life of a Royal Justice. Gilbert de Preston's Itinerary, July 1264–June 1265
- Living with Father's Reputation: The Careers of Two Thirteenth-century Oxfordshire Knights of Alien Origin, Thomas de Bréauté and Hugh de Plessis
- The Charters of Richard of Cornwall for the Empire
Summary
Gilbert de Preston was one of the best-known and longest-serving justices in thirteenth-century England, his career spanning from his appointment as a royal justice in 1240 at the age of just over thirty to his death, probably in December 1273, while chief justice of the Common Bench, an office he had held almost continuously from 1260. David Crook found that he served in fifty-five general eyres as a junior justice between 1239 and 1254, and between 1254 and 1272 he was chief justice in twenty-nine eyres. Gilbert was from a Northamptonshire knightly family, which held land in several places in the county and took its name from Preston Deanery, a couple of miles from Northampton. Preston Deanery was a substantial manor with house, gardens, fishpond, dovecot, a wind-mill and over thirty virgates in demesne, thirty-seven customary tenants, twenty-three cottagers and a handful of free tenants. It also had and still has a church that today is virtually unchanged from how Gilbert himself must have known it. Though the records of his work are incomplete, many surviving eyre rolls, assize rolls, bench rolls and feet of fines bear witness to his heavy workload and constant travels. This paper focuses on one of these rolls, the assize roll JUST 1/1197.
JUST 1/1197 is in an excellent state of preservation. Of its twenty-six membranes, twenty are written on both sides, giving forty-six sides of records altogether, though some membranes are not totally filled.
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- Thirteenth Century England XIIProceedings of the Gregynog Conference, 2007, pp. 155 - 166Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009