Government

The government is very different here. At the head of English government stood the king. The machinery of government existed in order to put his decisions and policies into practice. One of the laws that I didn't like was that a landed proprietor could always put an end to feuds and personal quarrels. One of the laws that i did like is the right to jurisdiction gave judicial power to the nobles and lords in cases arising in their domains and had no appeal but to the King himself. My religion is Catholic. Conflict between the town and county of Bristol and the liberty of St Augustine's Abbey was largely the consequence of the failure of the county's founding charter of 1373 to recognize the separate existence of the liberty. In 1496 a confrontation between the abbey and the town resulted in an appeal to Council, and the production of The Great White Book, to record the evidence collected for the hearing.