Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: People from Barnstaple, People from Braunton, People from Ilfracombe, John Gay, Henry de Bracton, Katie Hopkins, Richard Bowen, John Durnford-Slater, Charles Curtis, Francis Chichester, Marc Edworthy, Rosemary West, Phil Vickery, Snowy White, Charles Fraser-Smith, Cuthbert Mayne, Richard Roach Jewell, Richard Eyre, Frank McEwen, William Lethaby, John Gardner, Luke Guttridge, John Richards Lapenotiere, W. N. P. Barbellion, Frederick Richard Lee, Stephen Reed, Danny Seaborne, Robert Chapman, Henry Rolle, Harry Williamson, Princess Caraboo, Leonard Slater, Martin Barlow, Walter Summers, Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, William Scott, Temple Sandford, Douglas Kendrew, Emilia, Lady Dilke, Tim Wonnacott, Ryan Horrell, Iain Bond, Giles White, Charles Poynder, Philip Baker, Carrie Davis, Richard Knill, Peter Griffiths, Gilbert Kelland, Daniel Sandford, Kevin Nancekivell, William Tatem, 1st Baron Glanely, Francis Carruthers Gould, John Loosemore, Claud Thomas Bourchier, Benjamin Incledon, Simon Ireland, John Hurford, Brannoc of Braunton, James Parsons, Hubert Bath. Excerpt: Henry of Bracton, also Henry de Bracton, also Henrici Bracton, or Henry Bratton also Henry Bretton (ca. 1210-68) was an English jurist. He is famous now for his writings on Law, particularly De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (On the Laws and Customs of England), and his ideas on mens rea, or criminal intent. According to Bracton, it was only through the examination of a combination of action and intention that the commission of a criminal act could be established. He also wrote on kingship, arguing that a ruler should only be called 'king', if he obtained and exercised power in a lawful manner. In his writings Bracton manages coherently to set out the law of the royal courts through his use of categories drawn from Roman law, thus incorporatin...