The city law courts

London Women, the Courts and the ‘Golden Age’: A Quantitative Analysis of Female Litigants in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

“…35 Like the Sheriffs' Court, the Mayor's Court and the Courts of Hustings were held in the Guildhall; the former meeting as often as needed, even daily if necessary, and the latter meeting weekly. 36 Extraneous to this system of courts, a royal Eyre visited the City in early 1321, sitting in the Tower of London. However, without parallel post-plague records, the evidence of this visitation of the king's justices is of only limited use in establishing trends in litigation, as are the surviving rolls of the Mayor's Court, which continue only through 1307, and the rolls of the highly specialized Courts of Hustings.…”