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| An Act of 1389 granted justices a daily allowance of four shillings. The wealthy landowners failed to collect these expenses and they lapsed. The justices became - as they still are - 'the great unpaid'. | ||||||||||||||
| For the following 600 years, and continuing today, Justices of the Peace have undertaken the greater part of the judicial work carried out in England and Wales on behalf of the Sovereign. | ||||||||||||||
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