FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; Part I Individual Pardons; 2 Procedures; 3 Supplicant; 4 Intercessor; 5 Monarch; Part II General Pardons; 6 Procedures; 7 The Evolution of Group Pardons; 8 Pardoning and Celebration: Edward III's Jubilee; 9 Pardoning and Revolt: The Peasants' Rising of 1381; 10 Pardoning and Revenge: Richard II's 'Tyranny'; 11 Conclusion: Attitudes to Pardoning; APPENDICES: Introduction; 1 Total Number of Pardons; 2 Military Service Pardons; 3 Regional Distribution of Pardons; 4.i Intercessors for Pardon: Edward II, 1307-1327
Summary
The letter of pardon was a document familiar to the king's subjects in the middle ages; imbued with symbolic resonance as the judgement of the monarch, it also served a practical purpose, offering a last hope of reprieve from the death sentence or life as
