The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England by Helen Lacey

The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England

York Medieval Press

Helen Lacey

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nonfiction history sociology
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The letter of pardon was a document familiar to the king's subjects in the middle ages; imbued with symbolic resonance as the judgement of the monarch, it also served a practical purpose, offering a last hope of reprieve from the death sentence or...

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