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3 unusual facts about Justice of Chester


Bucklow Hundred

The Justice of Chester presided over the courts, and he would spend several days visiting each hundred in the region.

Justice of Chester

Within the County Palatine (which encompassed Cheshire, the City of Chester, and Flintshire), the Justice enjoyed the jurisdiction possessed in England by the Court of Common Pleas and the King's Bench.

Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Montgomeryshire were made part of the Chester circuit, over which the Justice presided.


Madog Crypl

He was still a child at the death of his father Gruffydd Fychan in 1289, so that he lands were placed in the custody of the queen and then of Reginald de Grey, Justice of Chester and then Thomas of Macclesfield.


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