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This chapter aims to do two things: to outline the structures of the central courts in the fourteenth century; and to examine the personnel of those courts in order to understand something of the social and political context in which they operated. It must be appreciated that up to 1300, and for some way beyond, the ‘centre’ denoted not so much a fixed geographical point as the place within the realm where the king’s government happened to be functioning. Not least of the interesting features of royal justice in the fourteenth century, however, is the contribution made by the senior courts to the development of Westminster and London as the administrative capital of England.1
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Musson, A., Ormrod, W.M. (1999). Royal Justice at the Centre. In: The Evolution of English Justice. British Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27004-0_2
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