The law-courts sat at Westminster.

The judges rode on circuit as of old.

The system of jury trial took more and more its modern form by the separation of the jurors from the witnesses.
But beneath this outer order and prosperity the growth of wealth in the trading classes was fast bringing about a social revolution which tended as strongly as the outrages of the baronage to the profit of the crown.
The rise in the price of wool was giving a fresh impulse to the changes in agriculture which had begun with the Black Death and were to go steadily on for a hundred years to come.

These changes were the throwing together of the smaller holdings, and the introduction of sheep-farming on an enormous scale.

The new wealth of the merchant classes helped on the change.