[713] Ibid. iv. 245-8.
[714] Ibid. iv. 253.
[715] Ibid. iv. 262-3, 265. See 268, xvi.
[716] Ibid. iv. 269, 282.
[717] Ibid. 270. For the final settlement see iv. xvii.
[718] Hist. MSS. Com. ix. 300-305. Blomefield, xi. 300-342.
[719] Cromwell’s Colchester, 264-5.
[720] See Mr. Hudson’s admirable work on Leet Jurisdiction in Norwich. (Selden Soc. vol. v.) For the four “vice-comites” of London see Round’s Geoffrey de Mandeville, 363.
[721] Leet Jur. (Selden Soc.) v. p. xviii. lxii, xliii-li.; Hudson, Mun. Org. in Norwich: Arch. Journ. xlvi. no. 184, 312, 316.
[722] According to Mr. Hudson the Norwich Leet Juries were solely a “police” organization. They existed to make “presentments” which involved a certain amount of previous keeping of the peace in their own little neighbourhood. In their individual capacity the capital pledges were the precursors of the “petty constable” [see Selden Soc. v. lxii. no. 1, and cf. pages there cited]; in their collective capacity as juries they preceded the local “Justice of the Peace,” a function usurped to a small extent between (say) 1360 and 1420 by the “twenty-four citizens,” and afterwards wholly usurped by the “Court of Aldermen,” who were the borough magistrates.