vol.ii.p.

136, 142, 189, 252.
*** Rush.

vol.ii.p, 158, 159, etc.

Franklyn, p.

412.
It is not improbable, that the king's intention was only to prevent inconveniencies, which arose from the bringing of every cause, from the most distant parts of the kingdom, into Westminster Hall: but the consequence, in the mean time, of this measure, was the putting of all the northern counties out of the protection of ordinary law, and subjecting them to an authority somewhat arbitrary.