ABSTRACT This article considers an appeal of homicide brought by the widow of a hanged Hereford man, the background to which was what R.A. Griffiths calls the ‘forcible arrangement’ by powerful men of Herefordshire and the Welsh marches of the trial and execution of those said to have been guilty of murdering Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine. While this incident has been considered in the context of disorder perpetrated in England, Wales and the Marches by particular families and affinities, and the efficiency or otherwise of royal justice in the mid-fifteenth century, some of its legal aspects have not been explored, and, in particular, it has generally been overlooked that the case was deemed worthy of a report, so that its essentials could be preserved for the instruction of common lawyers (YB Pasch. 35 Hen. VI f. 57b). This article draws on information from this Year Book report and the records of the King’s Bench, and argues that limitations on existing legal processes should form part of historians’ consideration of criminal justice in the mid-fifteenth century.

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判断赫里福德绞刑：艾格尼丝格洛弗诉沃尔特德弗罗，威廉赫伯特等人，1457

摘要本文考虑了赫里福德一名被绞死的男子的遗孀提起的谋杀上诉，其背景是格里菲斯所说的赫里福德郡权势人物的“强行安排”以及威尔士游行的审判和处决。曾因谋杀 Bredwardine 的 Watkin Vaughan 而被判有罪。虽然这一事件是在英格兰、威尔士和游行中特定家庭和亲缘所犯下的混乱以及 15 世纪中叶皇家司法的效率或其他方面考虑的，但尚未探讨其某些法律方面，尤其是，人们普遍忽视了该案件被认为值得报告的情况，因此可以保留其要点以供普通律师指导（YB Pasch. 35 Hen. VI f. 57b）。