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By Ian A. Burney. 245 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-6240-X.

In the late 12th century, the office of the coroner came into being in England. The coroner served as the king's local agent to ensure the receipt of royal revenues from the administration of justice. Sir Thomas Smith's 16th-century De Republica Anglorum provided a rationale for the coroner's inquest: Because "the death of everie subject by violence is accounted to touch the crowne of the Prince, and to be a detriment unto it, the Prince account[s] that his strength, power and crowne doth stande and consist in the force of his people, and the maintenaunce of them in securitie and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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