English monarchies in the Post\|Conquest period especially Henry Ⅰ and Henry Ⅱ took a series of severe measures to rectify the shire governments among which there were three very important steps.One was to set up Ex...English monarchies in the Post\|Conquest period especially Henry Ⅰ and Henry Ⅱ took a series of severe measures to rectify the shire governments among which there were three very important steps.One was to set up Exchequer to control sheriff’s financial powers,another was to form the itinerant court to weaken sheriff’s judicial powers.The most important step was to transform the hereditary shrievalty into the appointive and removal office with the aim of containing “feudlization” of the shrievalty.By means of these measures,at the later stage of the 12th century,the shire government was finally transformed into the highest local organs of power which was wholly and really controlled by royal powers.This historical phenomenon presents one aspect of the course about the political centralization of English feudal monarchy.展开更多
文摘English monarchies in the Post\|Conquest period especially Henry Ⅰ and Henry Ⅱ took a series of severe measures to rectify the shire governments among which there were three very important steps.One was to set up Exchequer to control sheriff’s financial powers,another was to form the itinerant court to weaken sheriff’s judicial powers.The most important step was to transform the hereditary shrievalty into the appointive and removal office with the aim of containing “feudlization” of the shrievalty.By means of these measures,at the later stage of the 12th century,the shire government was finally transformed into the highest local organs of power which was wholly and really controlled by royal powers.This historical phenomenon presents one aspect of the course about the political centralization of English feudal monarchy.
