Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Individual Pardons
Procedures
Supplicant
Intercessor
Monarch
Part II: General Pardons
Procedures
The Evolution of Group Pardons
Pardoning and Celebration: Edward III's Jubilee
Pardoning and Revolt: The Peasants' Rising of 1381
Pardoning and Revenge: Richard II's 'Tyranny'
Conclusion: Attitudes to Pardoning
Appendices
Bibliography

Reviews

Royal pardons played important, enigmatic roles in English law, politics, and culture in the fourteenth century, roles well portrayed in Lacey's fine book.
*LAW & HISTORY REVIEW*

A work that will be of interest and use to scholars working on late medieval political culture and on the history of English law.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*

Marked by beautifully clear writing and a comprehensive historiographical overview of the subject [it] offers a real insight into the cultural history of fourteenth-century politics.
*HISTORY*

A major addition to the literature that treats royal pardons as its central focus. [...] A book that all scholars working on law, violence and military affairs in late medieval England will find it necessary to read and to integrate into their own research.
*DE RE MILITARI*

Helen Lacey's excellent book appears at a time when the exercise of executive and judicial clemency has become a topical talking point. [...] Dr Lacey has achieved an adept rebalancing of the concept of pardoning in late medieval England and rehabilitated its function within a more holistic view of the legal system.
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY*