ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

A useful and illuminating collection of essays.

• Why 1199? Bureaucracy and Enrolment under John and his Contemporaries - Nicholas C. VincentThe English Royal Chancery in the Thirteenth Century - David CarpenterFinance on a shoestring: The Exchequer in the Thirteenth Century - Nick BarrattThe Local Administration of Justice: A reappraisal of the 'Four Knights' System - Anthony MussonThe Mortmain Licensing System, 1280-1307 - Paul A BrandWomen as Sheriffs in Early Thirteenth Century England - Louise J. WilkinsonKing and Lord: The Monarch and his demesne tenants in central Nottinghamshire, 1163-1363 - David Crook

ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

A useful and illuminating collection of essays.

• Why 1199? Bureaucracy and Enrolment under John and his Contemporaries - Nicholas C. VincentThe English Royal Chancery in the Thirteenth Century - David CarpenterFinance on a shoestring: The Exchequer in the Thirteenth Century - Nick BarrattThe Local Administration of Justice: A reappraisal of the 'Four Knights' System - Anthony MussonThe Mortmain Licensing System, 1280-1307 - Paul A BrandWomen as Sheriffs in Early Thirteenth Century England - Louise J. WilkinsonKing and Lord: The Monarch and his demesne tenants in central Nottinghamshire, 1163-1363 - David Crook

ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. ANTHONY MUSSON is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy

A useful and illuminating collection of essays.

• Why 1199? Bureaucracy and Enrolment under John and his Contemporaries - Nicholas C. VincentThe English Royal Chancery in the Thirteenth Century - David CarpenterFinance on a shoestring: The Exchequer in the Thirteenth Century - Nick BarrattThe Local Administration of Justice: A reappraisal of the 'Four Knights' System - Anthony MussonThe Mortmain Licensing System, 1280-1307 - Paul A BrandWomen as Sheriffs in Early Thirteenth Century England - Louise J. WilkinsonKing and Lord: The Monarch and his demesne tenants in central Nottinghamshire, 1163-1363 - David Crook