TY  - GEN
T1  - The Justices of the Peace 1679 - 1760.
T2  - UC Press voices revived.
A1  - Landau, Norma
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1406409207
AB  - In the eighteenth century the justices of the peace governed England. While Parliament debated questions of trade, taxation, and foreign policy, the justices administered England's internal affairs. So powerful were the later Stuart and early Hanoverian justices that they were virtually independent, and it is their independence which makes them fascinating. Neither the central government nor Parliament told them what to do, closely supervised their activity, o.
OP  - 438
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - KD8309
SN  - 9780520312340
SN  - 0520312341
SN  - 9780520358850
KW  - Justices of the peace : England : History.
KW  - Juges de paix : Angleterre : Histoire.
KW  - Justices of the peace.
KW  - England.
KW  - History.
ER  -