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GCSE History · key term
Meetings of local Justices of the Peace held four times a year to hear cases and conduct local judicial business.
Used by OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Enforcing law and orderJPs also met at quarter sessions, held four times a year, to hear cases requiring more substantial judicial attention. These meetings continued an existing medieval institution; they were not newly invented in this period.
Do not describe quarter sessions as a new early modern invention: they continued from the medieval period.
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