Henry VII

and Henry VIII. It consisted of divers lords spiritual and temporal, being privy councillors, together vrith two judges of the courts of common law; and tried, without the intervention of a jury, matters of riots, perjury, misbehavior of sheriffs, and other high misdemeanors. By usurpation of jurisdiction it became also a court of civil matters and revenue; and, owing to great abuses, was abolished under Charles I. 45. The Court of Wards and Liveries was founded under Henry VIII., to inquire into matters arising from tenures in chivalry, as concerning the wardship, marriage, and lands of the King's tenants in capite; and abolished by the 12 Car. II. c. 24. 46. The Court of the Lord High Ste'ward is a court of peers, instituted during the recess of Parliament for the trial of a peer for treason or felony or misprision of either. 47. The Central Criminal Court established the 4 & 5 Will. sex, or Surrey; and Court of Criminal tion of Cro Tivn Cases 12 Vict. c. 78, and was courts, or such as could law reserved by any and terminer, gaol delivery, prisoner had been found final; and its jurisdiction of the High Court of There have been courts which an appeal usually ruptcy, V. Court, 19, The county courts (Court, tion. 51. The 20 &