Re: 17C - Clerkes of the Outlawes

"Don Moody" wrote:


"cecilia" <myths@xxxxxxxx> wrote
[...] What were the Clerks of the Outlawes?

[...] the deduction would be that Thomas kept the list of those NOT
entitled to benefit or protection, that is to say the list of outlaws.

Thanks for the interest.

Your answer is what I would say if someone asked me the question.
I was hoping for fact not deduction. However, it drove me to some
better Google searching, and I see from
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=29754 and
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1780s/t17880910-143.html
that outlawry was still going on in the 18C, though it seems to have
been also referred to as attainder - language that is more familiar to
me for the post-medieval period.

There's still the question as to whether Thomas did the work himself
or whether he headed a (small?, legal?) "civil service" department,
but I think I know how to ascertain that - in the fullness of time.

And the search led me to Manorial and Forest Courts, which answer a
question posed by a tour guide in France this summer. (He wanted
appropriate English vocabulary, and I had hit one of the many major
gaps in my knowledge of history). So again, thanks.
.