Sub‐keepers and Constables: the Role of Local Officials in Keeping the Peace in Fourteenth‐Century England

Musson examines the role of the officials responsible for maintaining the peace who were operating below the county level in 14th-century England. The county keepers of the peace were never the sole agents responsible for maintaining law and order in the shire. The county keepers were part of a wider circle of peacekeeping officials functioning at differing levels and within varying jurisdictions. They played a significant role in shire politics and society, as well as in local justice.