This is your guide to the mechanisms of Government.

The Privy Council: advising the King or running the country?

Crown Finances: where does the King's money come from?

The Writing Offices: Chancery, Privy Seal, Signet and Exchequer.

The Judiciary: Manor, Communal and Shire Courts, Quarter Sessions and Assizes, King's Bench and Common Pleas, the Council, Chancery, Palatine and other franchise courts (see below), Church courts and the quality of justice.

The Counciliar Courts: Admiralty, Chivalry and the Verge.