Richard de Anesty
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Litigant whose account of pursuing a case before Henry II illustrates the burdens of itinerant royal justice.
Sir Francis Palgrave has printed in the second volume of his ‘Rise of the English Commonwealth’ a most curious document, which is the account given by one Richard de Anesty of the trouble and charges to which he was put in respect of a mixed civil and ecclesiastical case which he had before the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Twelfth-century litigant whose own account of bribing royal officials to win a land suit is quoted.
“At last, thanks to our lord the king, and by judgment of his court, my uncle’s land was adjudged to me.
In the narrative of “The costs and charges which I, Richard de Anesty, bestowed in recovering the land of William, my uncle,” (some fifty years before Magna Carta,) are the following items: