The Tudor Sheriff

Jonathan McGovern holds BA and MSt degrees from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of York. His work has won a number of prizes, including the Parliamentary History Essay Prize (2019), the Sir John Neale Essay Prize (2018) and the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (2018). He has published widely on the history and literature of the sixteenth century, on themes ranging from allegory, sermons, and balladry to political and parliamentary history.

• 1: Introduction 2: Fundamentals 3: Appointment and First Days in Office 4: The Execution and Return of Writs 5: Police Powers, Prison Keeping, and Other Duties 6: The County Court 7: The Sheriff's Tourn 8: The London Sheriffs' Court and the York Court of Pleas 9: Revenue Collection and Accounting at the Exchequer Conclusion Appendix 1: List of known sheriffs' tourns in the Tudor period, excluding municipal tourns Appendix 2: Undersheriffs in England, Ireland and Wales Appendix 3: Undersheriffs and Attorneys of the London Sheriffs' Court Appendix 4: Bonds and indentures Appendix 5: The status of sheriffs

Drawing upon impressively wide-ranging archival work in administrative and legal records... the book ably succeeds in its central ambition of demonstrating in comprehensive detail the workings of the shrieval system under the Tudors.