: <i>Law’s Dominion: Jewish Community, Religion, and Family in Early Modern Metz</i>

Parliament as part of the broader project of reforming state finances.Among the most significant reforms were relieving the sheriffs of having to petition the Crown to absorb debts they could not collect from bodies that no longer existed, such as farms from monasteries that had been dissolved in the 1530s.These reforms, like changes to the sheriffs' duties and obligations throughout the period, exemplify the adaptability of the office to meet the needs of the Tudor state and the Parliaments willingness to recognize it as such.McGovern provides an essential study of an administrative office that will be of interest to historians of early modern statecraft precisely because it explores the ubiquity and tenacity of the shrieval system at work in impressive detail.