Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
A group of local men called upon by the Sheriff from 1285 onwards to track criminals across the county if the hue and cry failed.
Posse Comitatus appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Crime and Punishment in Britain and Whitechapel, especially Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Nature of Law Enforcement and Punishment.
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