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There are no sources to prove that the carts themselves were arranged to form a rough , fortified precinct but it would be strange if they were not . This brief examination reveals the chancery under Urraca as a moderately busy place . In an age when any healthy man could draw a bow to some effect and even may have had rudimentary training in handling a spear , the army was automatically supplied with skirmishers to the number of a rough seven hundred . No medieval king was so stupid as to imagine that every wish could be translated into act or that every act would enjoy the obedience of his subjects . If we take as a rough gauge that such a general court is an assemblage that includes at least five of the fourteen bishops of the realm , it is possible to identify six [ 145 ] such general curias during the ten years being considered . Subsequent historians who have not fully appreciated the method of the author have been led to accept an erroneous chronology and to multiply events , taking transitional passages supplied by the author as wholly new developments . Beyond the management of the royal household , a king was also the chief justiciar of the realm , responsible for maintaining the public peace and a rough justice .