Table of contents : Half Title Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 3 Title verso......Page 4 Preface......Page 5 Contents......Page 11 List of Contributors......Page 13 List of Abbreviations......Page 15 Acknowledgements......Page 17 Conference Papers not Included in the Present Volume......Page 19 The British Legal History Conference......Page 21 1. "The Dearest Birth Right of the People of England": The Civil Jury in Modern Scottish Legal History......Page 23 2. Towards the Jury in Medieval Wales......Page 39 3. Petit Larceny, Jury Lenity and Parliament......Page 69 4. The Jury in English Manorial Courts.......Page 85 5. Jurors, Evidences and the Tempest of 1499......Page 97 6. No Link: The Jury and the Origins of the Confrontation Right and the Hearsay Rule......Page 115 7. "A Quest of Thoughts": Representation and Moral Agency in the Early Anglo-American Jury......Page 123 8. Jury Research in the English Reports in CD-ROM......Page 153 9. The Limits of Discretion: Forgery and the Jury at the Old Bailey, 1818-21......Page 177 10. The Strange Life of the English Civil Jury, 1837-1914......Page 195 11. The Fate of the Civil Jury in Late Victorian England: Malicious Prosecution as a Test Case......Page 239 Index......Page 261