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‘In the Elizabethan period most of the population did not come into direct contact with the central authorities at all. For the great majority of the Queen’s subjects it was local officials, especially the justices of the peace, who determined their fates.’1
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Local Government
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Powell, K., Cook, C. (1977). Local Government. In: English Historical Facts 1485–1603. Palgrave Historical and Political Facts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01913-7_4
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