Aurche the king caused a husting to be summoned from all the lands that stood in his hand; he bade them counsel him at such need.
The Britons held husting with great wisdom; they took anon Aurelie, the elder brother, in the noble husting, and raised him to be king.
And further there shall be no miskenning [false plea causing a person to be summoned to court] in a husting or in a folkmoot [meeting of the community], or in any other court within the City.
And the husting shall sit once a week, to wit, on Monday.
And there shall no longer be “miskenning”[33] in the husting or in the folkmoot or in other pleas within the city.
One of the best proofs of the season and duration of the Black Death in London is got from the number of wills enrolled in the Husting Court of the city in the successive months.
The series of Husting Rolls for Pleas of Land, preserved at the Guildhall, commence in the mayoralty of Hervy’s successor.
Upon making his appearance in the Court of Husting at the Guildhall, it was the duty of the Mayor, or other official holding the court, to rise and meet him and place him by his side.
The County Court found its co-relative in the Husting Court of the City; the Hundred Court in the City Wardmote.
The king’s own letter was also publicly read in the Husting by the regent’s order.
For the past year no Court of Husting had been held, and therefore no wills or testaments had received probate; whilst all pleas of land, except trespass, had to stand over until the country became more settled.
For one month after the Feast of St. Botolph the Abbot [17 June], the Court of Husting in London was closed, owing to the absence of citizens attending the fair.
The Troy weight was kept in the Husting of London and known as the Husting-weight.
Business was often at a standstill, the law courts had to be removed to the country, and the sittings of the London Husting suspended.
An investigation of the wills enrolled in the Court of Husting shows the relative popularity of different convents among the citizens of London.
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