Nine. "Illiterate Plebeians, Easily Misled": Jury Composition, Experience, and Behavior in Essex, 1735-1815

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables viii
5. Preface xiii
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. One. The Early-Thirteenth-Century Criminal Jury 1
8. Two. Juror Attitudes toward Local Disorder: The Evidence of the 1328 Lincolnshire Trailbaston Proceedings 36
9. Three. Jury Lists and Juries in the Late Fourteenth Century 65
10. Four. Jury Trial at Gaol Delivery in the Late Middle Ages: The Midland Circuit, 1400-1429 78
11. Five. Lawless Juries? The Composition and Behavior of Hertfordshire Juries, 1573-1624 117
12. Six. Twelve Silly Men? The Trial fury at Assizes, 1560-1670 158
13. Seven. Juries and the Middling Sort: Recruitment and Performance at Devon Quarter Sessions, 1649-1670 182
14. Eight. London Juries in the 1690s 214
15. Nine. "Illiterate Plebeians, Easily Misled": Jury Composition, Experience, and Behavior in Essex, 1735-1815 254
16. Ten. The Class Composition of the Palladium of Liberty: Trial furors in the Eighteenth Century 305
17. Eleven. A Retrospective on the Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 358
18. Notes on Contributors 401
19. Index 403