Abstract:

Over the course of the fourteenth century approximately 38,000 letters patent of pardon were issued from the royal chancery, and numbers were increasing across the period, despite the dramatic fall in population after the Black Death in mid-century.1 This compares with approximately 800 petitions for (or relating to) pardon that survive in the collections of The National Archives.2 Thus barely 2 per cent of the pardons known to have been issued can be matched ...

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