Juries enabled the participation in local governance of those outside national and regional elites in early modern England. Yet their social range is disputed. We investigate coroners’ inquest juries in a range of communities and compare a sample of 148 juries in eleven counties, featuring 2024 jurors, with tax and muster records. These show that while the rural and urban middling sorts were disproportionately represented, the rich and poor were by no means excluded. As militarily able household heads, many jurors matched the wider demands of ‘respectable masculinity’, and this may be reflected in some of the verdicts they reached.

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16 世纪英格兰的验尸官陪审团

在近代早期的英格兰，陪审团使那些非国家和地区精英能够参与地方治理。然而，他们的社会范围存在争议。我们调查了一系列社区的验尸官调查陪审团，并比较了 11 个县的 148 个陪审团样本，其中包括 2024 名陪审员，以及税收和召集记录。这些表明，虽然农村和城市中产阶级的代表比例过高，但富人和穷人绝不被排除在外。作为有军事才能的户主，许多陪审员符合“体面的男子气概”的更广泛要求，这可能反映在他们达成的一些判决中。