The Public Record Office Museum

Date:
1908
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Public Record Office Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE D. 44. Roll of pleas in the Court of King’s Bench at West- minster in Trinity term, 6 Henry VIII. [a.p. 1514.] Latin. Illuminated title. The initial P. contains a representation of the King enthroned with two prelates and two courtiers standing near him, The series of Plea Rolls in the Public Record Office extends from the reign of Richard I. to that of Victoria. 45. Roll of pleas in the Court of King’s Bench at West- minster and at St. Albans in Michaelmas term, 35 Henry VIII. [a.p. 1543.] Latin. Illuminated title. The initial P. contains a representation of the King enthroned. Michaelmas term was, in 1548, adjourned from Westminster to St. Albaus, on account of the pestilence raging in London. 46. Roll of pleas in the Court of King’s Bench at West- minster in Easter term, 3 Edward VI. [a.p. 1549.] Latin. Illuminated title. The initial P. contains a representation of the King enthroned between a man kneeling and a man in armour carrying a shield of the arms of William Tusser, prothonotary of the Court of King’s Bench, impaling those of Smith. On a scroll above is the legend :— ‘‘O mercyfull God do us not forsake, though of thinges forbod oft tymes parte we take and make our hartes bende to leeve in thy awe, But always defende ‘our king, realme and lawe.”
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