Plea Side RecordsKB 13834 Henry III - 11 James ICourt of King's Bench and Other Courts: Various Writs and Returns
A miscellaneous collection mostly of stray writs and returns from files of the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas and justices of assize.
Most are returns which illustrate the exercise of the supervisory power of superior courts over inferior ones, many evidently being from broken recorda files (otherwise in KB 145) of one of those courts, those of King's Bench predominating. Some other items were probably returned into Chancery or the Exchequer.
There are some important individual items of interest, including a roll of charter transcripts made in the Yorkshire eyre of 1293-94; a roll of proceedings before commissioners of sewers in Holderness (1368); records of proceedings in the courts of the Black Prince and of Roger Mortimer, earl of March; various records of commissions of oyer and terminer, including complaints against a bailiff of Queen Eleanor of Castile, Adam de Stratton, Hugh Despenser the younger (1322) and the justice Ralph de Hengham; and a petition by the commons in parliament (1410).