libertatibus, vel de rebus aliis in Anglia vel in Wallia, eis statim
sine placito reddantur; et si fuerint dissaisiti vel elongati de
tenementis suis Anglie per patrem vel fratrem regis sine juditio parium
suorum, rex eis sine dilatione justiciam exhibebit, eo modo quo exhibet
Anglicis justiciam de tenementis suis Anglie secundum legem Anglie, et
de tenementis Wallie secundum legem Wallie, et de tenementis Marchie
secundum legem Marchie; idem facient Walenses regi et suis.
45. Ut rex reddat filium Lewelini et } nisi aliter esse
preterea omnes obsides de Wallia, et } debeat per cartas
cartas que ei liberate fuerunt in } quas rex habet
securitatem pacis . . . } per juditium
46. Ut rex faciat regi Scottorum de } archiepiscopi et
obsidibus reddendis, et de libertatibus } aliorum quos
suis, et jure suo, secundum formam } secum vocare
quam facit baronibus Anglie . . . . } voluerit.
47. Et omnes foreste que sunt aforestate per regem tempore suo
deafforestentur, et ita fiat de ripariis que per ipsum regem sunt in
defenso.
48. Omnes autem istas consuetudines et libertates quas rex concessit
regno tenendas quantum ad se pertinet erga suos, omnes de regno tam
clerici quam laici observabunt quantum ad se pertinet erga suos.
[Here, there occurs a blank space in the original.]
49. Hec est forma securitatis ad observandum pacem et libertates inter
regem et regnum. Barones eligent .xxv. barones de regno quos voluerint,
qui debent pro totis viribus suis observare, tenere et facere observari,
pacem et libertates quas dominus rex eis concessit et carta sua
confirmavit; ita videlicet quod si rex, vel justiciarius, vel ballivi
regis, vel aliquis de ministris suis, in aliquo erga aliquem deliquerit,
vel aliquem articulorum pacis aut securitatis transgressus fuerit, et
delictum ostensum fuerit .iiii^{or}. baronibus de praedictis .xxv.
baronibus, illi .iiii^{or}. barones accedent ad dominum regem, vel ad
justiciarium suum, si rex fuerit extra regnum; proponentes ei excessum,
petent ut excessum illum sine dilatione faciat emendari; et si rex vel
justiciarius ejus illud non emendaverit, si rex fuerit extra regnum,
infra rationabile tempus determinandum in carta, predicti .iiii^{or}.
referent causam illam ad residuos de illis .xxv. baronibus, et illi
.xxv. cum communa totius terre distringent et gravabunt regem modis
omnibus quibus poterunt, scilicet per captionem castrorum, terrarum,
possessionum, et aliis modis quibus poterunt, donec fuerit emendatum
secundum arbitrium eorum, salva persona domini regis et regine et
liberorum suorum; et cum fuerit emendatum, intendant domino regi sicut
prius. Et quicumque voluerit de terra jurabit se ad predicta exequenda
pariturum mandatis predictorum .xxv. baronum, et gravaturum regem pro
posse suo cum ipsis; et rex pubblice et libere dabit licentiam jurandi
cuilibet qui jurare voluerit, et nulli umquam jurare prohibebit. Omnes
autem illos de terra qui sponte sua et per se noluerint jurare .xxv.
baronibus de distringendo et gravando regem cum eis, rex faciet jurare
eosdem de mandato suo sicut predictum est. Item si aliquis de predictis
.xxv. baronibus decesserit, vel a terra recesserit, vel aliquo modo alio
impeditus fuerit quominus ista predicta possint exequi, qui residui
fuerint de .xxv. eligent alium loco ipsius pro arbitrio suo, qui simili
modo erit juratus quo et ceteri. In omnibus autem que istis .xxv.
baronibus committuntur exequenda, si forte ipsi .xxv. presentes fuerint
et inter se super re aliqua discordaverint, vel aliqui ex eis vocati
nolint vel nequeant interesse, ratum habebitur et firmum quod major pars
ex eis providerit vel preceperit, ac si omnes .xxv. in hoc
consensissent; et predicti .xxv. jurabunt quod omnia antedicta fideliter
observabunt et pro toto posse suo facient observari. Preterea rex faciet
eos securos per cartas archiepiscopi et episcoporum et magistri
Pandulfi, quod nichil impetrabit a domino papa per quod aliqua istarum
conventionum revocetur vel minuatur, et, si aliquid tale impetraverit,
reputetur irritum et inane et numquam eo utatur.
VI. WRITS SUPPLEMENTARY OF JOHN’S GREAT CHARTER.
(1) _Writ to Stephen Harengod, dated 23rd June, 1215, announcing that
terms had been arranged_.[1099]
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Footnote 1099:
The text follows that of _New Rymer_, I. 133, but has been collated
with _Rot. Pat._, I. 143 (17 John m. 23) and two corrections made.
This writ is here given as a specimen of many despatched during the
week following the truce at Runnymede, intimating that peace had been
made, and instructing release of hostages, etc. This writ is referred
to _supra_ 48 n. and 49 n. where its date is discussed.
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Rex Stephano Harengod etc., Sciatis quod firma pax facta est per Dei
gratiam inter nos et barones nostros die Veneris proximo post festum
Sancte Trinitatis apud Runemed., prope Stanes; ita quod eorum homagia
eodem die ibidem cepimus. Unde vobis mandamus firmiter precipientes quod
sicut nos et honorem nostrum diligitis et pacem regni nostri, ne
ulterius turbetur, quod nullum malum de cetero faciatis baronibus
nostris vel aliis, vel fieri permittatis, occasione discordie prius orte
inter nos et eos. Mandamus etiam vobis quod de finibus et tenseriis
nobis factis occasione illius discordie, si quid superest, reddendum,
nichil capiatis. Et si quid post illum diem Veneris cepistis, illud
statim reddatis. Et corpora prisonum et obsidum captorum et detentorum
occasione hujus guerre, vel finium vel tenseriarum predictarum, sine
dilatione deliberetis. Hec omnia predicta, sicut corpus vestrum
diligitis, faciatis. Et in hujus etc., nobis mittimus. Teste meipso apud
Runemed., xxiij. die Junii anno regni nostri xvij.
(2) _Writ to Hugh de Bova, dated 23rd June, 1215, ordering disbandment
of mercenaries._[1100]
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Footnote 1100:
See _supra_, p. 522. The text is given in _New Rymer_, I. 134, and in
_Rot. Pat._, I. 144 (17 John m. 23).
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Rex Hugoni de Bova, salutem. Mandamus vobis quod in fide qua nobis
tenemini non retineatis aliquem de militibus vel servientibus qui
fuerunt apud Dover., sed in patriam suam in pace sine dilatione ire
faciatis. Et in hujus, etc. Teste meipso apud Runimed. xxiij. die Junii
anno regni nostri xvij^{mo.}
(3) _Writs issued to the sheriffs of counties on 19th June, 1215._[1101]
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Footnote 1101:
See _supra_, pp. 50-51, 512–3 and 552. The text is taken from _Rot.
Pat._, I. 180 (17 John m. 23, d.). It will be found also in _New
Rymer_, I. 134, and in Stubbs _Sel. Chart._, 306–7.
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Rex vicecomiti, forestariis warennariis, custodibus ripariarum et
omnibus baillivis suis in eodem comitatu, salutem. Sciatis pacem firmam
esse reformatam per Dei gratiam inter nos et barones et liberos homines
regni nostri, sicut audire poteritis et videre per cartam nostram quam
inde fieri fecimus, quam etiam legi publice precepimus per totam
bailliam vestram et firmiter teneri; volentes et districte precipientes
quod tu vicecomes omnes de baillia tua secundum formam carte predicte
jurare facias xxv. baronibus de quibus mentio fit in carta predicta, ad
mandatum eorundem vel majoris partis eorum, coram ipsis vel illis quos
ad hoc atornaverint per litteras suas patentes, et ad diem et locum quos
ad hoc faciendum prefixerint predicti barones vel atornati ab eis ad
hoc. Volumus etiam et precipimus quod xii milites de comitatu tuo, qui
eligentur de ipso comitatu in primo comitatu qui tenebitur post
susceptionem litterarum istarum in partibus tuis, jurent de inquirendis
pravis consuetudinibus tam de vicecomitibus quam eorum ministris,
forestis, forestariis, warennis et warennariis, ripariis et earum
custodibus, et eis delendis, sicut in ipsa carta continetur. Vos igitur
omnes sicut nos et honorem nostrum diligitis, et pacem regni nostri,
omnia in carta contenta inviolabiliter observetis et ab omnibus
observari faciatis, ne pro defectu vestri, aut per excessum vestrum,
pacem regni nostri, quod Deus avertat, iterum turbari contingat. Et tu,
vicecomes, pacem nostram per totam bailliam tuam clamari facias et
firmiter teneri precipias. Et in hujus, etc. vobis mittimus. Teste me
ipso apud Runimede, xix. die Junii, anno regni nostri xvij^{mo.}
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Footnote 1102:
See supra, p. 553. The text is given by _New Rymer_, I. 134, and in
_Rot. Pat._, I. 134 (17 John, m. 21). A French version appears in
D’Achery, _Spicilegium_, XII. 573, and in Bémont, _Chartes_, xxiv. n.
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(4) _Writs issued to the sheriffs of counties on 27th June, 1215._[1102]
Rex vicecomiti Warewic. et duodecim militibus electis in eodem comitatu
ad inquirendum et delendum pravas consuetudines de vicecomitibus et
eorum ministris forestis et forestariis warennis et warennariis ripariis
et earum custodibus salutem. Mandamus vobis quod statim et sine
dilatione saisiatis in manum nostram terras et tenementa et catalla
omnium illorum de comitatu Warewic. qui jurare contradixerint viginti
quinque baronibus secundum formam contentam in carta nostra de
libertatibus vel eis quos ad hoc atornaverint. Et si jurare noluerint
statim post quindecim dies completos preterquam terre et tenementa et
catalla eorum in manu nostra saisita fuerint, omnia catalla sua vendi
faciatis et denarios inde preceptos salvo custodiatis, deputandos
subsidio terre sancte. Terras autem et tenementa eorum in manu nostra
teneatis, quousque juraverint. Et hoc provisum est per judicium domini
Cantuar. archiepiscopi et baronum regni nostri. Et in hujus etc. Teste
meipso, apud Winton. xxvij die Junii anno regni nostri xvij^{mo.}
_Idem mandatum est omnibus vicecomitibus Anglie._
(5) _Conventio facta inter Regem Anglie et barones ejusdem regni._[1103]
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Footnote 1103:
See _supra_, pp. 51-2 and 560-1. The text is taken from _New Rymer_,
I. 133 on the authority of _Rot. Claus._, 17 John, m. 27 d. It is
printed by Blackstone, _Great Charter_, 25–6.
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Hec est conventio facta inter dominum Johannem regem Anglie, ex una
parte, et Robertum filium Walteri, marescallum exercitus Dei et sancte
ecclesie in Anglia, et Ricardum comitem de Clare, Gaufridum comitem
Essex, et Glouc., Rogerum Bigot comitem Northfolc. et Suthfolc., Saherum
comitem Wint., Robertum comitem Oxon., Henricum comitem Hereford., et
barones subscriptos, scilicet Willielmum Mariscallum juniorem,
Eustachium de Vescy, Willielmum de Mobray, Johannem filium Roberti,
Rogerum de Monte Begonis, Willielmum de Lanvalay, et alios comites et
barones et liberos homines totius regni, ex altera parte, videlicet quod
ipsi comites et barones et alii prescripti tenebunt civitatem London, de
baillio domini regis, salvis interim domino regi firmis redditibus et
claris debitis suis, usque ad assumptionem beate Marie anno regni ipsius
regis xvii^{mo.} et dominus Cant. tenebit similiter de baillio domini
regis turrim London, usque ad predictum terminum, salvis civitati
London. libertatibus suis et liberis consuetudinibus suis, et salvo
cuilibet jure suo in custodia turris London., et ita quod interim non
ponat dominus rex munitionem vel vires alias in civitate predicta vel in
turri London. Fiant etiam infra predictum terminum sacramenta per totam
Angliam viginti quinque baronibus sicut continentur in carta de
libertatibus et securitate regno concessis vel attornatis viginti
quinque baronum sicut continentur in literis de duodecim militibus
eligendis ad delendum malas consuetudines de forestis et aliis. Et
preterea infra eundem terminum omnia que comites et barones et alii
liberi homines petunt a domino rege que ipse dixerit esse reddenda vel
que per xxv barones aut per majorem partem eorum judicata fuerint esse
reddenda reddantur secundum formam predicte carte. Et si hec facta
fuerint vel per dominum regem non steterit quominus ista facta fuerint
infra predictum terminum tunc civitas et turris London. ad eundem
terminum statim reddantur domino regi salvis predicte civitati
libertatibus suis et liberis consuetudinibus suis sicut prescriptum est.
Et si hec facta non fuerint et per dominum regem steterit quod ista non
fiant infra predictum terminum barones tenebunt civitatem predictam et
dominus archiepiscopus turrim London. donec predicta compleantur. Et
interim omnes ex utraque parte recuperabunt castra terras et villas quas
habuerunt in initio guerre orte inter dominum regem et barones.
(6) _Protest by the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin, and other
prelates, that chapter 48 of the Great Charter was to be interpreted
by both sides as limited._[1104]
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Footnote 1104:
See _supra_, pp. 52, 513, and 560. The protest is recorded in _Rot.
Claus._, 17 John, m. 27 d.; and is printed in _New Rymer_, I. 134.
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Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presentes littere pervenerint, Sancti
Dei gracia, Cantuar. archiepiscopus, tocius Anglie primas et sancte
Romane ecclesie cardinalis et H. eadem gracia, archiepiscopus Dublin.,
W. quoque London., P. Winton., J. Bathon et Glaston., H. Lincoln., W.
Wygorn., et W. Coventr., ejusdem gracie dono episcopi, salutem in
Domino. Cum dominus Rex concesserit et per cartam suam confirmaverit,
quod omnes male consuetudines de forestis, et forestariis et eorum
ministris, statim inquirantur in quolibet comitatu, per duodecim milites
juratos de eodem comitatu; qui debent eligi per probos homines ejusdem
comitatus; et infra xl. dies post inquisitionem factam penitus, ita quod
nunquam revocentur, deleantur per eosdem; dum tamen dominus Rex hoc
prius sciat; universitati vestre notum fieri volumus, quod articulus
iste ita intellectus fuit ex utraque parte, quum de eo tractabatur, et
expressus, quod omnes consuetudines ille remanere debent, sine quibus
foreste servari non possint: et hoc presentibus litteris protestamur.
(7) _Protest by the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin and other
prelates that the barons who had renewed their homage at Runnymede
had repudiated their promise to ratify their oaths by formal
charters._[1105]
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Footnote 1105:
See _supra_, 560. The protest is printed in _Rot. Pat._, I. 144 (17 m.
21 d.), and also in _New Rymer_, I. 134.
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Omnibus Christi fidelibus etc. Stephanus, Dei gracia, Cantuar.
archiepiscopus, totius Anglie primas, et sancte Romane ecclesie
cardinalis Henricus Dublin archiepiscopus, Willielmus London., Petrus
Winton., Joscelinus Bathon, et Glaston., Hugo Lincoln., Walterus
Wigorn., Willielmus Conventr., Ricardus Cicestr., episcopi et magister
Pandulfus domini Pape subdiaconus et familiaris, salutem. Noverit
universitas vestra, quod quando facta fuit pax inter dominum regem
Johannem et barones Anglie, de discordia inter eos orta, idem barones
nobis presentibus et audientibus, promiserunt domino Regi, quod
quamcumque securitatem habere vellet ab eis de pace illa observanda,
ipsi ei habere facerent, preter castella et obsides. Postea vero quando
dominus Rex petiit ab eis, ut talem cartam ei facerent:—
“Omnibus etc. Sciatis nos astrictos esse per sacramenta et homagia
domino nostro Johanni Regi Anglie, de fide ei servanda de vita et
membris et terreno honore suo, contra omnes homines qui vivere
possint et mori; et ad jura sua et heredum suorum, et ad regnum
suum custodiendum et defendendum.”
Ipsi id facere noluerunt. Et in hujus rei testimonium id ipsum per hoc
scriptum protestamur.
VII. THE GREAT CHARTER OF HENRY III.[1106]
(SECOND REISSUE, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1217.)
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Footnote 1106:
See _supra_, pp. 171-9. The text is taken from that of the _Statutes
of the Realm_, I. 17-19.
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Henricus Dei gratia rex Anglie, dominus Hibernie, dux Normannie,
Aquitanie, et comes Andegavie, archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus,
prioribus, comitibus, baronibus, vicecomitibus, prepositis, ministris et
omnibus ballivis et fidelibus suis presentem cartam inspecturis,
salutem. Sciatis quod intuitu Dei et pro salute anime nostre et animarum
antecessorum et successorum nostrorum, ad exaltationem sancte ecclesie
et emendationem regni nostri, concessimus et hac presenti carta
confirmavimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris in perpetuum, de consilio
venerabilis patris nostri domini Gualonis tituli Sancti Martini
presbiteri cardinalis et apostolice sedis legati, domini Walteri
Eboracensis archiepiscopi, Willelmi Londoniensis episcopi, et aliorum
episcoporum Anglie et Willelmi Mariscalli comitis Pembrocie, rectoris
nostri et regni nostri, et aliorum fidelium comitum et baronum nostrorum
Anglie, has libertates tenendas in regno nostro Anglie in perpetuum.
1. In primis concessimus Deo et hac presenti carta nostra confirmavimus
pro nobis et heredibus nostris in perpetuum quod anglicana ecclesia
libera sit, et habeat jura sua integra et libertates suas illesas.
Concessimus etiam omnibus liberis hominibus regni nostri pro nobis et
heredibus nostris in perpetuum omnes libertates subscriptas, habendas et
tenendas eis et heredibus suis de nobis et heredibus nostris.
2. Si quis comitum vel baronum nostrorum sive aliorum tenencium de nobis
in capite per servicium militare mortuus fuerit, et, cum decesserit,
heres ejus plene etatis fuerit et relevium debeat, habeat hereditatem
suam per antiquum relevium, scilicet heres vel heredes comitis de
baronia comitis integra per centum libras, heres vel heredes baronis de
baronia integra per centum libras, heres vel heredes militis de feodo
militis integro per centum solidos ad plus; et qui minus debuerit minus
det secundum antiquam consuetudinem feodorum.
3. Si autem heres alicujus talium fuerit infra etatem, dominus ejus non
habeat custodiam ejus nec terre sue antequam homagium ejus ceperit; et,
postquam talis heres fuerit in custodia, cum ad etatem pervenerit,
scilicet viginti et unius anni, habeat hereditatem suam sine relevio et
sine fine, ita tamen quod, si ipse, dum infra etatem fuerit, fiat miles,
nichilominus terra remaneat in custodia dominorum suorum usque ad
terminum predictum.
4. Custos terre hujusmodi heredis qui infra etatem fuerit non capiat de
terra heredis nisi rationabiles exitus et rationabiles consuetudines et
rationabilia servicia, et hoc sine destructione et vasto hominum vel
rerum; et si nos commiserimus custodiam alicujus talis terre vicecomiti
vel alicui alii qui de exitibus terre illius nobis debeat respondere, et
ille destructionem de custodia fecerit vel vastum, nos ab illo capiemus
emendam, et terra committatur duobus legalibus et discretis hominibus de
feodo illo qui de exitibus nobis respondeant vel ei cui eos
assignaverimus; et si dederimus vel vendiderimus alicui custodiam
alicujus talis terre, et ille destructionem inde fecerit vel vastum,
amittat ipsam custodiam et tradatur duobus legalibus et discretis
hominibus de feodo illo qui similiter nobis respondeant, sicut predictum
est.
5. Custos autem, quamdiu custodiam terre habuerit, sustentet domos,
parcos, vivaria, stagna, molendina et cetera ad terram illam pertinencia
de exitibus terre ejusdem, et reddat heredi, cum ad plenam etatem
pervenerit, terram suam totam instauratam de carucis et omnibus aliis
rebus, ad minus secundum quod illam recepit. Hec omnia observentur de
custodiis archiepiscopatuum, episcopatuum, abbatiarum, prioratuum,
ecclesiarum et dignitatum vacancium que ad nos pertinent, excepto quod
hujusmodi custodie vendi non debent.
6. Heredes maritentur absque disparagatione.
7. Vidua post mortem mariti sui statim et sine difficultate aliqua
habeat maritagium suum et hereditatem suam, nec aliquid det pro dote sua
vel pro maritagio suo vel pro hereditate sua, quam hereditatem maritus
suus et ipsa tenuerint die obitus ipsius mariti, et maneat in capitali
mesuagio mariti sui per quadraginta dies post obitum ipsius mariti sui,
infra quos assignetur ei dos sua, nisi prius ei fuerit assignata, vel
nisi domus ilia sit castrum; et si de castro recesserit, statim
provideatur ei domus competens in qua possit honeste morari, quousque
dos sua ei assignetur secundum quod predictum est, et habeat rationabile
estoverium suum interim de communi. Assignetur autem ei pro dote sua
tercia pars tocius terre mariti sui que sua fuit in vita sua, nisi de
minori dotata fuerit ad hostium ecclesie.
8. Nulla vidua distringatur ad se maritandam, dum vivere voluerit sine
marito, ita tamen quod securitatem faciet quod se non maritabit sine
assensu nostro, si de nobis tenuerit, vel sine assensu domini sui, si de
alio tenuerit.
9. Nos vero vel ballivi nostri non seisiemus terram aliquam nee redditum
pro debito aliquo quamdiu catalla debitoris presencia sufficiunt ad
debitum reddendum et ipse debitor paratus sit inde satisfacere; nee
plegii ipsius debitoris distringantur quamdiu ipse capitalis debitor
sufficiat ad solutionem debiti; et, si capitalis debitor defecerit in
solutione debiti, non habens unde reddat aut reddere nolit cum possit,
plegii respondeant pro debito; et, si voluerint, habeant terras et
redditus debitoris quousque sit eis satisfactum de debito quod ante pro
eo solverint, nisi capitalis debitor monstraverit se inde esse quietum
versus eosdem plegios.
10. Civitas Londonie habeat omnes antiquas libertates et liberas
consuetudines suas. Preterea volumus et concedimus quod omnes alie
civitates, et burgi, et ville, et barones de quinque portubus, et omnes
portus, habeant omnes libertates et liberas consuetudines suas.
11. Nullus distringatur ad faciendum majus servicium de feodo militis
nec de alio libero tenemento quam inde debetur.
12. Communia placita non sequantur curiam nostram, set teneantur in
aliquo loco certo.
13. Recognitiones de nova disseisina et de morte antecessoris non
capiantur nisi in suis comitatibus, et hoc modo: nos, vel si extra
regnum fuerimus, capitalis justiciarius noster, mittemus justiciarios
per unumquemque comitatum semel in anno, qui cum militibus comitatuum
capiant in comitatibus assisas predictas.
14. Et ea que in illo adventu suo in comitatu per justiciarios predictos
ad dictas assisas capiendas missos terminari non possunt, per eosdem
terminentur alibi in itinere suo; et ea que per eosdem propter
difficultatem aliquorum articulorum terminari non possunt, referantur ad
justiciarios nostros de banco, et ibi terminentur.
15. Assise de ultima presentatione semper capiantur coram justiciariis
nostris de banco et ibi terminentur.
16. Liber homo non amercietur pro parvo delicto nisi secundum modum
ipsius delicti, et pro magno delicto, secundum magnitudinem delicti,
salvo contenemento suo; et mercator eodem modo salva mercandisa sua; et
villanus alterius quam noster eodem modo amercietur salvo wainagio suo,
si incident in misericordiam nostram: et nulla predictarum
misericordiarum ponatur nisi per sacramenta proborum et legalium hominum
de visneto.
17. Comites et barones non amercientur nisi per pares suos, et non nisi
secundum modum delicti.
18. Nulla ecclesiastica persona amercietur secundum quantitatem
beneficii sui ecclesiastici, sed secundum laicum tenementum suum, et
secundum quantitatem delicti.
19. Nec villa, nec homo, distringatur facere pontes ad riparias nisi qui
ex antiquo et de jure facere debet.
20. Nulla riparia decetero defendatur, nisi ille que fuerunt in defenso
tempore regis Henrici avi nostri, per eadem loca et eosdem terminos
sicut esse consueverunt tempore suo.
21. Nullus vicecomes, constabularius, coronatores vel alii ballivi
nostri teneant placita corone nostre.
22. Si aliquis tenens de nobis laicum feodum moriatur, et vicecomes vel
ballivus noster ostendat litteras nostras patentes de summonitione
nostra de debito quod defunctus nobis debuit, liceat vicecomiti vel
ballivo nostro attachiare et inbreviare catalla defuncti inventa in
laico feodo ad valenciam illius debiti per visum legalium hominum, ita
tamen quod nichil inde amoveatur donec persolvatur nobis debitum quod
clarum fuerit, et residuum relinquatur executoribus ad faciendum
testamentum defuncti; et si nichil nobis debeatur ab ipso, omnia catalla
cedant defuncto, salvis uxori ipsius rationabilibus partibus suis.
23. Nullus constabularius vel ejus ballivus capiat blada vel alia
catalla alicujus qui non sit de villa ubi castrum situm est, nisi statim
inde reddat denarios aut respectum inde habere possit de voluntate
venditoris; si autem de villa ipsa fuerit, infra quadraginta dies
precium reddat.
24. Nullus constabularius distringat aliquem militem ad dandum denarios
pro custodia castri, si ipse eam facere voluerit in propria persona sua,
vel per alium probum hominem, si ipse eam facere non possit propter
rationabilem causam, et, si nos duxerimus eum vel miserimus in
exercitum, erit quietus de custodia secundum quantitatem temporis quo
per nos fuerit in exercitu de feodo pro quo fecit servicium in exercitu.
25. Nullus vicecomes, vel ballivus noster, vel alius capiat equos vel
carettas alicujus pro cariagio faciendo, nisi reddat liberationem
antiquitus statutam, scilicet pro caretta ad duos equos decem denarios
per diem, et pro caretta ad tres equos quatuordecim denarios per diem.
26. Nulla caretta dominica alicujus ecclesiastice persone vel militis
vel alicujus domine capiatur per ballivos predictos.
27. Nec nos nec ballivi nostri nec alii capiemus alienum boscum ad
castra vel alia agenda nostra, nisi per voluntatem illius cujus boscus
ille fuerit.
28. Nos non tenebimus terras eorum qui convicti fuerint de felonia, nisi
per unum annum et unum diem; et tunc reddantur terre dominis feodorum.
29. Omnes kidelli decetero deponantur penitus per Tamisiam et Medeweiam
et per totam Angliam, nisi per costeram maris.
30. Breve quod vocatur Precipe decetero non fiat alicui de aliquo
tenemento, unde liber homo perdat curiam suam.
31. Una mensura vini sit per totum regnum nostrum, et una mensura
cervisie, et una mensura bladi, scilicet quarterium Londonie, et una
latitudo pannorum tinctorum et russettorum et haubergettorum, scilicet
due ulne infra listas; de ponderibus vero sit ut de mensuris.
32. Nichil detur de cetero pro brevi inquisitionis ab eo qui
inquisitionem petit de vita vel membris, set gratis concedatur et non
negetur.
33. Si aliquis teneat de nobis per feodifirmam vel soccagium, vel per
burgagium, et de alio terram teneat per servicium militare, nos non
habebimus custodiam heredis nee terre sue que est de feodo alterius,
occasione illius feodifirme, vel soccagii, vel burgagii, nec habebimus
custodiam illius feodifirme vel soccagii vel burgagii, nisi ipsa
feodifirma debeat servicium militare. N os non habebimus custodiam
heredis vel terre alicujus quam tenet de alio per servicium militare,
occasione alicujus parve serjanterie quam tenet de nobis per servicium
reddendi nobis cultellos, vel sagittas, vel hujusmodi.
34. Nullus ballivus ponat decetero aliquem ad legem manifestam vel ad
juramentum simplici loquela sua, sine testibus fidelibus ad hoc
inductis.
35. Nullus liber homo decetero capiatur vel inprisonetur aut
disseisiatur de aliquo libero tenemento suo vel libertatibus vel liberis
consuetudinibus suis, aut utlagetur, aut exulet, aut aliquo alio modo
destruatur, nec super eum ibimus, nec super eum mittemus, nisi per
legale judicium parium suorum, vel per legem terre.
36. Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus rectum vel justiciam.
37. Omnes mercatores, nisi publice antea prohibiti fuerint, habeant
salvum et securum exire de Anglia, et venire in Angliam, et morari, et
ire per Angliam tarn per terram quam per aquam ad emendum vel vendendum
sine omnibus toltis malis per antiquas et rectas consuetudines,
preterquam in tempore gwerre, et si sint de terra contra nos gwerrina;
et si tales inveniantur in terra nostra in principio gwerre,
attachientur sine dampno corporum vel rerum, donee sciatur a nobis vel a
capitali justiciario nostro quomodo mercatores terre nostre tractentur,
qui tunc invenientur in terra contra nos gwerrina; et, si nostri salvi
sint ibi, alii salvi sint in terra nostra.
38. Si quis tenuerit de aliqua escaeta, sicut de honore Wallingefordie,
Bolonie, Notingeham, Lancastrie, vel de aliis que sunt in manu nostra,
et sint baronie, et obierit, heres ejus non det aliud relevium nec
faciat nobis aliud servicium quam faceret baroni, si ilia esset in manu
baronis; et nos eodem modo eam tenebimus quo baro eam tenuit; nec nos,
occasione tabs baronie vel escaete, habebimus aliquam escaetam vel
custodiam aliquorum hominum nostrorum, nisi alibi tenuerit de nobis in
capite ille qui tenuit baroniam vel escaetam.
39. Nullus liber homo decetero det amplius alicui vel vendat de terra
sua quam ut de residuo terre sue possit sufficienter fieri domino feodi
servicium ei debitum quod pertinet ad feodum illud.
40. Omnes patroni abbatiarum qui habent cartas regum Anglie de
advocatione, vel antiquam tenuram vel possessionem, habeant earum
custodiam cum vacaverint, sicut habere debent, et sicut supra declaratum
est.
41. Nullus capiatur vel imprisonetur propter appellum femine de morte
alterius quam viri sui.
42. Nullus comitatus decetero teneatur, nisi de mense in mensem; et, ubi
major terminus esse solebat, major sit. Nec aliquis vicecomes vel
ballivus faciat turnum suum per hundredum nisi bis in anno et non nisi
in loco debito et consueto, videlicet semel post Pascha et iterum post
festum sancti Michaelis. Et visus de franco plegio tunc fiat ad ilium
terminum sancti Michaelis sine occasione, ita scilicet quod quilibet
habeat libertates suas quas habuit et habere consuevit tempore regis
Henrici avi nostri, vel quas postea perquisivit. Fiat autem visus de
franco plegio sic, videlicet quod pax nostra teneatur, et quod tethinga
integra sit sicut esse consuevit, et quod vicecomes non querat
occasiones, et quod contentus sit eo quod vicecomes habere consuevit de
visu suo faciendo tempore regis Henrici avi nostri.
43. Non liceat alicui decetero dare terram suam alicui domui religiose,
ita quod eam resumat tenendam de eadem domo, nec liceat alicui domui
religiose terram alicujus sic accipere quod tradat eam illi a quo ipsam
receperit tenendam. Si quis autem de cetero terram suam alicui domui
religiose sic dederit, et super hoc convincatur, donum suum penitus
cassetur, et terra illa domino suo illius feodi incurratur.
44. Scutagium decetero capiatur sicut capi consuevit tempore regis
Henrici avi nostri.
45. Omnes autem istas consuetudines predictas et libertates quas
concessimus in regno nostro tenendas quantum ad nos pertinet erga
nostros, omnes de regno nostro tam clerici quam laici observent quantum
ad se pertinet erga suos.
46. Salvis archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, prioribus, templariis,
hospitalariis, comitibus, baronibus et omnibus aliis tam ecclesiasticis
personis quam secularibus, libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus quas
prius habuerunt.
47. Statuimus etiam, de communi consilio tocius regni nostri, quod omnia
castra adulterina, videlicet ea que a principio guerre mote inter
dominum Johannem patrem nostrum et barones suos Anglie constructa
fuerint vel reedificata, statim diruantur. Quia vero nondum habuimus
sigillum hanc [cartam] sigillis domini legati predicti et comitis
Willelmi Mariscalli rectoris [nostri] et regni nostri fecimus sigillari.
VIII. CARTA DE FORESTA.[1107]
(6 NOVEMBER, 1217.)
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Footnote 1107:
See _supra_, pp. 171-2. The text is taken from that of the _Statutes
of the Realm_, I. 20-21.
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Henricus Dei gratia rex Anglie, dominus Hibernie, dux Normannie,
Aquitanie et comes Andegavie, archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus,
prioribus, comitibus, baronibus, justiciariis, forestariis,
vicecomitibus, prepositis, ministris, et omnibus ballivis et fidelibus
suis, salutem. Sciatis quod, intuitu Dei et pro salute anime nostre et
animarum antecessorum et successorum nostrorum, ad exaltacionem Sancte
Ecclesie et emendacionem regni nostri, concessimus et hac presenti carta
confirmavimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris in perpetuum, de consilio
venerabilis patris nostri domini Gualonis tituli sancti Martini
presbiteri cardinalis et apostolice sedis legati, domini Walteri
Eboracensis archiepiscopi, Willelmi Londoniensis episcopi, et aliorum
episcoporum Anglie, et Willelmi Marescalli comitis Penbrocie, rectoris
nostri et regni nostri, et aliorum fidelium comitum et baronum nostrorum
Anglie, has libertates subscriptas tenendas in regno nostro Anglie, in
perpetuum:
1. In primis omnes foreste quas Henricus rex avus noster afforestavit
videantur per bonos et legales homines et, si boscum aliquem alium quam
suum dominicum afforestaverit ad dampnum illius cujus boscus fuerit,
deafforestentur. Et si boscum suum proprium afforestaverit, remaneat
foresta, salva communa de herbagio et aliis in eadem foresta, illis qui
eam prius habere consueverunt.
2. Homines qui manent extra forestam non veniant decetero coram
justiciariis nostris de foresta per communes summoniciones, nisi sint in
placito, vel plegii alicujus vel aliquorum qui attachiati sunt propter
forestam.
3. Omnes autem bosci qui fuerunt afforestati per regem Ricardum
avunculum nostrum, vel per regem Johannem patrem nostrum usque ad primam
coronacionem nostram, statim deafforestentur, nisi fuerit dominicus
boscus noster.
4. Archiepiscopi, episcopi, abbates, priores, comites et barones et
milites et libere tenentes, qui boscos suos habent in forestis, habeant
boscos suos sicut eos habuerunt tempore prime coronacionis predicti
regis Henrici avi nostri, ita quod quieti sint in perpetuum de omnibus
purpresturis, vastis et assartis factis in illis boscis, post illud
tempus usque ad principium secundi anni coronacionis nostre. Et qui de
cetero vastum, purpresturam, vel assartum sine licencia nostra in illis
fecerint, de vastis et assartis respondeant.
5. Reguardores nostri eant per forestas ad faciendum reguardum sicut
fieri consuevit tempore prime coronacionis predicti regis Henrici avi
nostri, et non aliter.
6. Inquisicio, vel visus de expeditacione canum existencium in foresta,
decetero fiat quando debet fieri reguardum, scilicet de tercio anno in
tercium annum; et tunc fiat per visum et testimonium legalium hominum et
non aliter. Et ille, cujus canis inventus fuerit tunc non expeditatus,
det pro misericordia tres solidos; et de cetero nullus bos capiatur pro
expeditacione. Talis autem sit expeditacio per assisam communiter quod
tres ortilli abscidantur sine pelota de pede anteriori; nec expeditentur
canes de cetero, nisi in locis ubi consueverunt expeditari tempore prime
coronacionis regis Henrici avi nostri.
7. Nullus forestarius vel bedellus decetero faciat scotale, vel colligat
garbas, vel avenam, vel bladum aliud, vel agnos, vel porcellos, nec
aliquam collectam faciant; et per visum et sacramentum duodecim
reguardorum quando facient reguardum, tot forestarii ponantur ad
forestas custodiendas, quot ad illas custodiendas rationabiliter
viderint sufficere.
8. Nullum suanimotum de cetero teneatur in regno nostro nisi ter in
anno; videlicet in principio quindecim dierum ante festum Sancti
Michaelis, quando agistatores conveniunt ad agistandum dominicos boscos
nostros; et circa festum Sancti Martini quando agistatores nostri debent
recipere pannagium nostrum; et ad ista duo suanimota conveniant
forestarii, viridarii, et agistatores, et nullus alius per
districtionem; et tercium suanimotum teneatur in inicio quindecim dierum
ante festum Sancti Johannis Baptiste, pro feonacione bestiarum
nostrarum; et ad istud suanimotum tenendum convenient forestarii et
viridarii et nulli alii per districtionem. Et preterea singulis
quadraginta diebus per totum annum conveniant viridarii et forestarii ad
videndum attachiamenta de foresta, tam de viridi, quam de venacione, per
presentacionem ipsorum forestariorum, et coram ipsis attachiatis.
Predicta autem suanimota non teneantur nisi in comitatibus in quibus
teneri consueverunt.
9. Unusquisque liber homo agistet boscum suum in foresta pro voluntate
sua et habeat pannagium suum. Concedimus eciam quod unusquisque liber
homo possit ducere porcos suos per dominicum boscum nostrum, libere et
sine inpedimento, ad agistandum eos in boscis suis propriis, vel alibi
ubi voluerit. Et si porci alicujus liberi hominis una nocte
pernoctaverint in foresta nostra, non inde occasionetur ita quod aliquid
de suo perdat.
10. Nullus de cetero amittat vitam vel menbra pro venacione nostra; set,
si aliquis captus fuerit et convictus de capcione venacionis, graviter
redimatur, si habeat unde redimi possit; et si non habeat unde redimi
possit, jaceat in prisona nostra per unum annum et unum diem; et, si
post unum annum et unum diem plegios invenire possit, exeat a prisona;
sin autem, adjuret regnum Anglie.
11. Quicunque archiepiscopus, episcopus, comes vel baro transient per
forestam nostram, liceat ei capere unam vel duas bestias per visum
forestarii, si presens fuerit; sin autem, faciat cornari, ne videatur
furtive hoc facere.
12. Unusquisque liber homo decetero sine occasione faciat in bosco suo,
vel in terra sua quam habeat in foresta, molendinum, vivarium, stagnum,
marleram, fossatum, vel terram arabilem extra cooperatum in terra
arabili, ita quod non sit ad nocumentum alicujus vicini.
13. Unusquisque liber homo habeat in boscis suis aereas, ancipitrum et
spervariorum et falconum, aquilarum, et de heyrinis et habeat similiter
mel quod inventum fuerit in boscis suis.
14. Nullus forestarius de cetero, qui non sit forestarius de feudo
reddens nobis firmam pro balliva sua, capiat chiminagium aliquod in
balliva sua; forestarius autem de feudo firmam nobis reddens pro balliva
sua capiat chiminagium, videlicet pro careta per dimidium annum duos
denarios, et per alium dimidium annum duos denarios, et pro equo qui
portat sumagium per dimidium annum unum obolum, et per alium dimidium
annum obolum, et non nisi de illis qui de extra ballivam suam, tanquam
mercatores, veniunt per licenciam suam in ballivam suam ad buscam,
meremium, corticem vel carbonem emendum, et alias ducendum ad vendendum
ubi voluerint: et de nulla alia careta vel sumagio aliquod chiminagium
capiatur: et non capiatur chiminagium nisi in locis illis ubi antiquitus
capi solebat et debuit. Illi autem qui portant super dorsum suum buscam,
corticem, vel carbonem, ad vendendum, quamvis inde vivant, nullum de
cetero dent chiminagium. De boscis autem aliorum nullum detur
chiminagium forestariis nostris, preterquam de dominicis boscis nostris.
15. Omnes utlagati pro foresta tantum a tempore regis Henrici avi nostri
usque ad primam coronacionem nostram, veniant ad pacem nostram sine
inpedimento, et salvos plegios inveniant quod de cetero non forisfaciant
nobis de foresta nostra.
16. Nullus castellanus vel alius ten eat placita de foresta sive de
viridi sive de venacione, sed quilibet forestarius de feudo attachiet
placita de foresta tam de viridi quam de venacione, et ea presentet
viridariis provinciarum et cum irrotulata fuerint et sub sigillis
viridariorum inclusa, presententur capitali forestario cum in partes
illas venerit ad tenendum placita foreste, et coram eo terminentur.
17. Has autem libertates de forestis concessimus omnibus, salvis
archiepiscopis, episcopis, abbatibus, prioribus, comitibus, baronibus,
militibus et aliis tam personis ecclesiasticis quam secularibus,
Templariis et Hospitalariis, libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus in
forestis et extra, in warennis et aliis, quas prius habuerunt. Omnes
autem istas consuetudines predictas et libertates, quas concessimus in
regno nostro tenendas quantum ad nos pertinet erga nostros, omnes de
regno nostro tam clerici quam laici observent quantum ad se pertinet
erga suos. Quia vero sigillum nondum habuimus, presentem cartam sigillis
venerabilis patris nostri domini Gualonis tituli Sancti Martini
presbiteri cardinalis, apostolice sedis legati, et Willelmi Marescalli
comitis Penbrok, rectoris nostri et regni nostri, fecimus sigillari.
Testibus prenominatis et aliis multis. Datum per manus predictorum
domini legati et Willelmi Marescalli apud Sanctum Paulum Londonie, sexto
die Novembris, anno regni nostri secundo.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO.
I. COMMENTARIES AND OTHER WORKS ON MAGNA CARTA
(CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED).
1. _The Mirror of Justices_, edited by William Joseph Whittaker (Selden
Society); 1895.
2. Edward Coke, _Second Institute_, 1641; 17th edition, 1817.
3. Edward Cooke, _Magna Charta made in the ninth year of King Henry
III. and confirmed by King Edward I. in the twentieth year of his
reign_; 1684.
4. William Blackstone, _The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, to
which is prefixed the History of the Charters_; 1759.
5. Daines Barrington, _Observations upon the Statutes from Magna Charta
to 21 James I._; 1766.
6. Francis Stoughton Sullivan, _An Historical Treatise on the Feudal
Law, with a Commentary on Magna Charta_; 1772.
7. Richard Thomson, _An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King
John_; 1829.
8. Thaddaeus Lau, _Die Entstehungsgeschichte der Magna Charta_; 1856.
9. Charles Bémont, _Chartes des Libertés Anglaises_; 1892.
10. Boyd C. Barrington, _The Magna Charta and other Great Charters of
England_; 1900.
11. Elemér Hantos, _The Magna Carta of the English and of the Hungarian
Constitution_; 1904.
II. CHRONICLES AND ANNALS.
1. _Annals of Dunstable_, edited by Henry Richards Luard (Rolls
Series); 1866.
2. _Annals of Waverley_, edited by Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series);
1865.
3. Benedict Abbot, _Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi_, edited by William
Stubbs (Rolls Series); 1867.
4. Jocelyn of Brakelond, _Chronica de rebus gestis Samsonis Abbatis
Monasterii Sancti Edmundi_, edited by John Gage Rokewode (Camden
Society); 1840.
5. Matthew Paris, _Chronica Majora_, edited by Henry Richards Luard
(Rolls Series); 1872.
6. _Memorials of St. Dunstan_, edited by William Stubbs (Bulls Series);
1874.
7. Ralph of Coggeshall, _Chronicon Anglicanum_, edited by Joseph
Stevenson (Rolls Series); 1875.
8. Roger of Hoveden, _Chronica_, edited by William Stubbs (Rolls
Series); 1868-1871.
9. Roger of Wendover, _Chronica sive Flores Historiarum_, edited by
Henry Octavius Coxe (Eng. Hist. Society); 1841.
10. Walter of Coventry, _Memoriale_, edited by William Stubbs (Rolls
Series); 1872.
11. Walter of Hemingburgh, _Chronicon de Gestis Regum Angliae_, edited
by Hans Claude Hamilton (Eng. Hist. Society); 1848-9.
12. William of Malmesbury, _Gesta Regum Anglorum_, edited by William
Stubbs (Rolls Series); 1887-9.
III. COLLECTIONS OF STATUTES, CHARTERS, AND TREATIES.
1. _Statutes of the Realm_ (Record Commission); 1810-28.
2. _Statutes at Large._
3. _Acts of the Parliament of Scotland from 1124 to 1707_, edited by
Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes; 1814-75.
4. _Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi Asservata_, edited
by Thomas Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1833.
5. _Rotuli Litterarum Patentum in Turri Londinensi Asservata_, edited
by Thomas Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1835.
6. _Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservata_, edited by Thomas
Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1837.
7. _Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus_, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy
(Record Commission); 1835-6.
8. _Rotuli Parliamentorum_; 1832.
9. _Rotuli Hundredorum_ (Record Commission); 1812-18.
10. _Testa de Neville sive Liber Feodorum_ (Record Commission); 1807.
11. _The Red Book of the Exchequer_, edited by Hubert Hall (Rolls
Series); 1896.
12. _Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis: Liber Albus, Liber Custumarum
et Liber Horn_, edited by Henry Thomas Riley (Rolls Series); 1859-62.
13. Thomas Rymer, _Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae, et cujuscunque
generis acta publica_; 4th edition (Record Commission); 1816-69
(referred to throughout as “New Rymer”).
14. _Ancient Charters, Royal and Private_, edited by John Horace Round
(Pipe Roll Society, vol. 10); 1888.
15. Jean Luc D’Achery, _Vetorum Scriptorum Spicilegium_; 1655-77.
16. _Hemingi Chartularum Ecclesiae Wigornensis_, edited by Thomas
Hearne; 1723.
17. August Potthast, _Regesta Pontificum Romanorum_; 1874-5.
18. Alexandre Teulet, _Layettes du Trésor_; 1863.
19. William Stubbs, _Select Charters and other Illustrations of English
Constitutional History_; 7th edition, 1890.
20. George Walter Prothero, _Select Statutes and other Constitutional
Documents illustrative of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I._;
1894.
21. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, _The Constitutional Documents of the
Puritan Revolution_; 1889.
22. Walter de Gray Birch, _Historical Charters and Constitutional
Documents of the City of London_; 1887.
IV. COLLECTIONS OF PLEAS, TRIALS, AND OTHER RECORD EVIDENCE.
1. _Placitorum Abbreviatio_, Richard I. to Edward II. (Record
Commission); 1811.
2. Melville Madison Bigelow, _Placita Anglo-Normannica_; 1879.
3. _Bracton’s Note Book: a Collection of Cases_, edited by Frederic
William Maitland; 1887.
4. Thomas Bayly Howell and Thomas Jones Howell, _Complete Collection of
State Trials_; 1809-28 (referred to as “State Trials”).
5. _Select Pleas of the Crown_, edited by Frederic William Maitland
(Selden Society); 1888.
6. _Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts_, edited by
Frederic William Maitland (Selden Society); 1889.
7. _Select Pleas of the Forest_, edited by George James Turner (Selden
Society); 1901.
8. _Select Pleas, Starrs, and other Records from the Rolls of the
Exchequer of the Jews_, edited by James McMullen Rigg (Selden
Society); 1902.
9. _Year Books of the Reign of Edward I._, edited by Alfred John
Horwood and Luke Owen Pike (Rolls Series); 1863-1901.
10. _Year Books of Edward II._, 1307–1309, edited by Frederic William
Maitland (Selden Society); 1903.
11. _Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twelfth Year of Henry II._ (Pipe
Roll Society, vol. 9); 1888.
12. Thomas Madox, _History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the
Kings of England_; 2nd edition, 1769 (referred to throughout as
“Madox”).
13. Thomas Madox, _Firma Burgi_; 1726.
14. Thomas Madox, _Baronia Anglica_; 1741.
V. LEGAL TREATISES—MEDIEVAL.
1. Ranulf Glanvill, _Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni
Angliae_.
2. Richard, son of Nigel, _De necessariis Observantibus Scaccarii
Dialogus_ (commonly called _Dialogus de Scaccario_), edited by Arthur
Hughes, C. G. Crump, and C. Johnson; 1902.
3. Henry de Bracton, _De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae_, edited by
Sir Travers Twiss (Rolls Series); 1878-83.
4. Fleta, _Commentarius Juris Anglicani_; edition of 1647.
5. Thomas Littleton, _Treatise of Tenures_; edition of 1841.
VI. LEGAL TREATISES—MODERN.
1. William Reynell Anson, _The Law and Custom of the Constitution_; 2nd
edition, 1892.
2. William Blackstone, _Commentaries on the Laws of England_; edition
of 1826.
3. Edward Coke, _Institutes of the Laws of England_; 17th edition,
1817. (The _First Institute_ is generally referred to as “Coke on
Littleton.”)
4. _Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England_, edited by Alexander Wood
Renton; 1897-8.
5. Matthew Hale, _Historia Placitorum Coronae_; 1736.
6. Edward Jenks, _Modern Land Law_; 1899.
7. John Manwood, _A Treatise and Discourse of the Laws of the Forest_;
1598.
8. Henry John Stephen, _Commentaries on the Laws of England_; 13th
edition, 1899.
9. James Bradley Thayer, _A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the
Common Law_; 1898.
VII. LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES.
1. Melville Madison Bigelow, _History of Procedure in England_; 1880.
2. Heinrich Brunner, _Die Entstehung der Schwurgerichte_; 1871.
3. Edward Creasy, _Progress of the English Constitution_; 1874.
4. Rudolf Gneist, _The History of the English Constitution_, translated
by Philip A. Ashworth; edition of 1891.
5. Rudolf Gneist, _The English Parliament in its Transformations
through a Thousand Years_, translated by A. H. Keane; 1887.
6. William Searle Holdsworth, _A History of English Law_, vol. 1; 1903.
7. Dudley Julius Medley, _A Student’s Manual of English Constitutional
History_; 2nd edition, 1898.
8. Stuart Archibald Moore and Hubert Stuart Moore, _The History and Law
of Fisheries_; 1903.
9. Frederic Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, _The History of
English Law before the time of Edward I._; 1st edition, 1895
(referred to throughout as “Pollock and Maitland”).
10. Luke Owen Pike, _A Constitutional History of the House of Lords,
from original sources_; 1894.
11. John Reeves, _History of English Law_; 3rd edition, 1783–4.
12. James Fitzjames Stephen, _A History of the Criminal Law in
England_; 1893.
13. William Stubbs, _The Constitutional History of England in its
Origin and Development_: (_a_) vol. 1, 6th edition, 1897; (_b_) vol.
2, 4th edition, 1894; (_c_) vol. 3, 5th edition, 1896.
14. Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, _English Constitutional History from
the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time_; 5th edition, 1896.
15. Hannis Taylor, _The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution_;
1898.
VIII. GENERAL HISTORIES.
1. Robert Brady, _Complete History of England_; 1685.
2. Henry Care, _English Liberties in the Freeborn Subjects’
Inheritance_; 1719.
3. John Richard Green, _A Short History of the English People_; edition
of 1875.
4. Robert Henry, _History of Great Britain_; 6th edition, 1806.
5. John Lingard, _A History of England to 1688_; 1819-30.
6. James Mackintosh, _History of England_; edition of 1853.
7. Goldwin Smith, _The United Kingdom: a Political History_; 1899.
8. James Tyrrell, _History of England, 1697–1704_.
IX. HISTORIES OF SPECIAL PERIODS.
1. Mary Bateson, _Mediaeval England_ (Story of the Nations Series);
1903.
2. Edward Augustus Freeman, _The Norman Conquest of England_; 1870-9.
3. Edward Augustus Freeman, _The Reign of William Rufus_; 1882.
4. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, _History of England from the Accession of
James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War_; 1883-4.
5. Henry Hallam, _View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages_;
7th edition, 1837.
6. John Mitchell Kemble, _Saxons in England_; 1849.
7. Kate Norgate, _England under Angevin Kings_; 1887.
8. Kate Norgate, _John Lackland_; 1902.
9. Charles Pearson, _A History of England during the Early and Middle
Ages_; 1867.
10. George Walter Prothero, _The Life of Simon de Montfort, Earl of
Leicester_; 1877.
11. James Henry Ramsay, _The Foundations of England_; 1898.
12. James Henry Ramsay, _The Angevin Empire_; 1903.
X. MISCELLANEOUS.
1. Robert Brady, _A Full and Clear Answer_; 1683.
2. Émile Boutmy, _Etudes de Droit Constitutionnel_; 1885.
3. Edmund Burke, _Works_; edition of 1837 (Boston).
4. Stephen Dowell, _History of Taxation and Taxes in England_; 1884.
5. Hubert Hall, _History of the Customs Revenue in England_; 1885.
6. Charles Gross, Preface to _Select Cases from the Coroners’ Rolls_
(Selden Society); 1896.
7. Gaillard Thomas Lapsley, _The County Palatine of Durham_; 1900.
8. Henry Richards Luard, Preface to vol. 2 of Matthew Paris, _Chronica
Majora_ (Rolls Series); 1872.
9. Achille Luchaire, _Communes Françaises_, 1890.
10. John Luffman, _Charters of London_; 1793.
11. George Neilson, _Trial by Combat_; 1890.
12. John Noorthouck, _A New History of London_; 1773.
13. Jesse Macy, _The English Constitution; a Commentary on its nature
and growth_, 1897.
14. Frederic William Maitland, _Township and Borough_; 1898.
15. Frederic William Maitland, in _Social England_, edited by Henry
Duff Trail, vol. 1; 1st edition, 1893.
16. Frederic William Maitland, Preface to _Select Pleas of the Crown_
(Selden Society); 1888.
17. Frederic William Maitland, Preface to _Select Pleas in Manorial and
other Seignorial Courts_ (Selden Society); 1889.
18. Frederic William Maitland, Preface to _The Mirror of Justices_
(Selden Society); 1895.
19. Charles de Montesquieu, _De l’Esprit des Lois_; edition of 1750,
Edinburgh.
20. Frederic Pollock, _Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics_; 1894.
21. James McMullen Rigg, Preface to _Select Pleas, Starrs, and other
Records from the Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews_ (Selden
Society); 1902.
22. Oskar Rössler, _Kaiserin Mathilde und das Zeitalter der Anarchie in
England_; 1897.
23. John Horace Round, editorial notes to _Ancient Charters, Royal and
Private_ (Pipe Roll Society, vol. 10); 1888.
24. John Horace Round, _Geoffrey de Mandeville: a Study of the
Anarchy_; 1892.
25. John Horace Round, _Feudal England: Historical Studies of the
Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries_; 1895.
26. John Horace Round, _The Commune of London and other Studies_; 1899.
27. Frederic Seebohm, _The English Village Community: an Essay on
Economic History_; 1883.
28. William Stubbs, Preface to Walter of Coventry, _Memoriale_ (Rolls
Series); 1872.
29. George James Turner, Preface to _Select Pleas of the Forest_
(Selden Society); 1901.
30. Paul Vinogradoff, _Villainage in England: Essays in English
Mediaeval History_; 1892.
XI. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE.
1. George B. Adams, _London and the Commune_, in _Engl. Hist. Rev._ for
October, 1904; xix. 706.
2. Mary Bateson, _A London Municipal Collection of the Reign of John_,
in _Engl. Hist. Rev._ for July, 1902; xii. 480.
3. G. H. Blakesley, _Manorial Jurisdiction_, in _Law Quarterly Review_
for April, 1889; v. 113.
4. Hubert Hall, _An Unknown Charter of Liberties_, in _Engl. Hist.
Rev._ for April, 1894; ix. 326.
5. Edward Jenks, _The Story of the Habeas Corpus_, in _Law Quarterly
Review_ for January, 1902; xviii. 64.
6. Edward Jenks, _The Myth of Magna Carta_, in _Independent Review_ for
November, 1904; iv. 260.
7. Frederic William Maitland, Review of Dr. Charles Gross’s _The Early
Historical Influence of the Office of Coroner_, in _Engl. Hist. Rev._
for
October, 1903; viii. 758.
8. Cardinal Manning, _The Pope and Magna Charta_, in _Contemporary
Review_ for December, 1875 (subsequently reprinted 1885, Baltimore).
9. George Walter Prothero, _An unknown Charter of Liberties_, in _Engl.
Hist. Rev._ for January, 1894; ix. 117.
10. John Horace Round, _An unknown Charter of Liberties_, in _Engl.
Hist. Rev._ for April, 1893; viii. 288.
11. John Horace Round, _The Great Assize_, in _The Athenaeum_ for 28th
January, 1899; p. 113.
12. H. B. Simpson, _The Office of Constable_, in _Engl. Hist. Rev._ for
October, 1895; x. 625.
XII. REPORTS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND DICTIONARIES.
1. _Reports from the Lords’ Committee appointed to search the Journals
of the House, Rolls of Parliament, and other Records for all matters
touching the Dignity of a Peer_; 1st Report, 1820.
2. _Reports from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
state of the Public Records of the Kingdom_ (Record Commission);
1800.
3. _Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections_ (Historical
Manuscripts Commission); 1901.
4. Charles Gross, _The Sources and Literature of English History_;
1900.
5. Robert Watt, _Bibliotheca Britannica_; 1824.
6. William Thomas Lowndes, _The Bibliographer’s Manual of English
Literature_; 1857-64.
7. _Dictionary of National Biography_, edited by Leslie Stephen and
Sidney Lee; 1885-1900.
INDEX TO STATUTES.
Page
20 Henry III. c. 6, 78, 252
c. 9, 504
c. 11, 247 n., 492 n.
52 Henry III. c. 15, 264 n.
c. 16, 78 n., 248 n., 324 n.
c. 29, 412, 413 n.
3 Edward I. c. 1, 247 n., 366
c. 6, 345
c. 7, 388 n.
c. 10, 371
c. 11, 424, 433 n.
c. 12, 400
c. 20, 247 n.
c. 21, 245
c. 32, 387, 388 n., 393
c. 36, 81, 306
c. 41, 520 n.
c. 48, 248
4 Edward I. (Stat. of Rageman), 331 n.
6 Edward I. c. 1, 177 n.
c. 4, 67, 259 n.
c. 5, 245
c. 9, 424, 425
7 Edward I. 178
13 Edward I. c. 4, 247 n.
c. 5, 325 n.
c. 9, 424
c. 13, 364
c. 29, 420 n., 424
c. 30, 327, 330, 333
c. 39, 330
c. 47, 357
18 Edward I. 178
27 Edward I. c. 3, 330
28 Edward I. c. 4, 316
c. 5, 315
c. 7, 370
c. 12, 264
c. 14, 375
Stat. 3, c. 13, 366 n.
_Statutes of uncertain date._
Statute of Jewry, 271, 274
_Praerogativa Regis_, 398, 397 n.
_Consuetudines et Assisae de foresta_, 501
1 Edward III. Stat. 2, c. 1, 510
c. 13, 481
c. 17, 364 n.
2 Edward III. c. 2, 330
c. 9, 465 n., 472
c. 11, 310 n.
4 Edward III. c. 15, 376 n.
5 Edward III. c. 9, 441 n.
9 Edward III. c. 1, 472
14 Edward III. Stat. 1, c. 9, 376 n.
c. 21, 465 n.
Stat. 2, 281
Stat. 4, c. 4, 250
c. 5, 250
25 Edward III. Stat. 3, c. 4, 404
Stat. 4, c. 7, 472 n.
Stat. 5, c. 4, 441
c. 11, 82
27 Edward III. Stat. 2, c. 8, 440
28 Edward III. c. 13, 440
37 Edward III. c. 18, 441
38 Edward III. c. 3, 441-2 n.
42 Edward III. c. 1, 185, 424 n.
c. 3, 442 n.
2 Richard II. Stat. 1, c. 1, 473 n.
5 Richard II. Stat. 1, c. 2, 485
6 Richard II. c. 5, 333 n.
c. 6, 529 n.
11 Richard II. c. 7, 473 n.
c. 11, 333 n.
17 Richard II. c. 6, 442 n.
c. 9, 405 n.
4 Henry IV. c. 5, 376 n.
c. 11, 404 n.
5 Henry IV. c. 10, 370
c. 14, 425 n.
1 Edward IV. c. 2, 364 n.
12 Edward IV. c. 7, 404
1 Richard III. c. 8, 415 n.
3 Henry VII. c. 1 (s. 11), 426
32 Henry VIII. c. 46, 248
1 Edward VI. c. 14, 481
c. 12 (s. 16), 253 n.
4 James I. c. 1 (s. 22), 475-6
3 Charles I. c. 1, 390, 442, 459
16 Charles I. c. 16, 501, 511
12 Charles II. c. 24, 67, 70, 72 n., 248, 387
13 Charles II. c. 8, 387, 392 n.
12 George III. c. 20, 400-1
54 George III. c. 145, 401 n.
57 George III. c. 61, 502
59 George III. c. 46, 421, 427
8 George IV. c. 28, 401
3 and 4 William IV. c. 27, 320 n.
c. 106 (s. 10), 401
5 and 6 William IV. c. 76 (s. 14), 473
14 and 15 Victoria, c. 42, 502
15 and 16 Victoria, c. 76, 434
33 and 34 Victoria, c. 14, 477
c. 23, 401
37 and 38 Victoria, c. 94, 70, 80
50 and 51 Victoria, c. 35, 360 n.
INDEX.
Abbeys, 505-7, 526.
Advowson, 325, 506. (See also _Presentment_.)
Agistors, 488.
Aids (feudal), 72, 80-2, 275, 276-7, 292, 301-6, 308.
Aids (general), 277-81.
Alexander II. (King of Scots), 252, 537, 541-3.
Aliens. (See _Foreigners_.)
Allegiance, 474, 477-8.
Amercements, 88, 141, 334-351, 530-3.
Anglo-Saxon period, 5, 7, 9.
Anselm, 21, 226, 239, 249.
Anson, Sir William R., 127 n., 292 n., 298 n.
Appeal (to a higher court), 10, 14.
Appeal (or accusation), 108, 160, 161, 371, 418, 425-7, 527-30.
Arbitrary imprisonment. (See _Imprisonment_.)
Aristotle, 6.
Arthur (John’s nephew), 219, 243, 516, 540 n.
Articles of the Barons, 39, 44-5, 143, 151, 171, 200-2, 223, 230, 232,
252, 277, 279, 292, 332, 350, 355, 363, 436, 438, 443, 444, 452,
524, 526, 531, 535-6, 549, 561;
text of, 570.
Ashford _v._ Thornton, 426-7.
Assize (different meanings of), 320 n.
Assize of Arms, 15.
Assize of Clarendon, 14, 74, 107, 160, 293 n., 397-8, 399, 431, 432,
436.
Assize of Measures, 371, 414-7.
Assize of Northampton, 107, 160, 243, 319 n., 324, 327 n., 370, 397.
Assize of Wine, 415-7.
Assize of Woodstock, 337 n., 483, 484, 487, 496, 497 n., 498, 499.
Assize (Grand), 109, 162, 321-3, 324, 325, 406, 407-8, 411, 412.
Assizes (Petty), 109, 111, 162-3, 176, 317-33, 407, 412.
(See also _Justice of Assize_.)
Attainder, 74, 401.
Bailiffs, 358, 372, 376, 385, 392, 393, 430, 431, 432 n., 435, 467,
502.
Barons, (legal position of), 103, 152, 229, 232, 236, 293, 295-7,
346-9, 474.
Barons (John’s and Henry’s)—
their motives, 59, 64, 139-140, 140 n., 143, 469-70, 534, 543-5;
their grievances, 58-112, 229, 262-3, 307, 492, 495, 503-4, 507;
their policy, 62, 82-3, 107, 111, 144, 148, 165, 173, 452;
their various factions, 220-1.
Barons’ War (against Henry III.), 147, 168, 471.
Barony, 76, 232, 235-6.
(See also _Honour_.)
Barrington (Hon. Daines), 209, 245 n., 256-7.
Bateson, Miss Mary, 68-9, 285 n.
Battle. (See _Trial by combat_.)
Becket (Thomas à), 15, 224, 225, 294.
Bémont, Charles, 207, 210-1, 565 n.
Bench. (See _King’s Bench_ and _Common Pleas_.)
Benefit of clergy. (See _Clergy_.)
Bigelow, M. M., 316 n., 408, 430 n., 438 n., 441 n.
Bishops, 366, 379, 382, 498, 515 n.;
as holders of baronies, 22, 76, 83, 238, 248, 294;
election of, 22, 23, 166, 226-7, 251-2;
Crown’s wardship over, 76, 117, 121, 224, 225, 249, 250, 506;
pay scutage, 87;
no relief, 238-9, 249.
Blackstone, Sir William, 47, 50 n., 53, 58, 65, 72 n., 78, 89, 130,
134, 169 n., 171, 175 n., 179 n., 182 n., 197, 198, 199, 201, 206,
209, 248 n., 259 n., 319 n., 328 n., 386 n., 403 n., 419, 437 n.,
448 n., 502, 551 n.
Blench tenure in Scotland, 69 n.
Bloodfeud, 334-5, 418.
Boroughs, 277-80, 284, 291, 376, 415, 468-9;
privileges of, 26, 284, 415, 468;
obligations of, 376.
Bot, 335.
Boutmy, Émile, 120.
Bouvines (Battle of), 37.
Bracton, 80 n., 244, 253, 259 n., 272, 345, 348, 383, 396 n., 399, 418
n., 422, 481 n., 527 n., 529.
Bréauté, Falkes de, 176, 521, 522.
Bridges, obligation to repair, 352-8.
Briwere, William, 181, 184.
Burgage tenure, 69-70, 76, 427-9.
Burgess, 136, 252.
(See also _Merchant_.)
Burke, Edmund, 156 n.
Canonical election, 22-3, 28, 39, 506. (See also _Bishops_.)
Capitulary of Kiersey, 73.
Carta de foresta. (See _Forest_.)
Cartae (of 1166), 15.
Castellans. (See _Constables_.)
Castles, private, 10, 176, 179, 258, 516, 523, 560.
Castles, royal, 176, 268-9, 390-1, 393.
Central government, problem of, 16-20.
Champions, in duel, 527;
king’s, 68.
Chancery, 16, 108, 401;
Court of, 312, 476-7.
Charter, John’s Great:
date when sealed, 48, 564 n.;
its prototypes, 113-23;
historical antecedents, 4-5, 7, 58-112, 123, 210-1;
historical sequel to, 164-93;
its form, 123-9, 182;
its contents and characteristics, 129-44;
how far a baronial manifesto, 133-9;
its value, 144-50;
its defects, 150-4, 186, 187, 413, 504, 554-61;
its traditional interpretations, 154-63, 437;
how far declaratory, 130-2, 364-5, 405;
its relations to Henry II.’s, reforms, 123, 130, 131-2, 318, 320-8,
363, 398, 439, 449;
how far reactionary, 132-3, 406, 409, 413, 449;
its practical nature, 144, 153 n., 437;
its attitude towards Church and clergy, 139, 222-7, 250, 474-7, 506;
towards boroughs and traders, 50, 140, 277-81, 284-91, 463-73;
towards tenants of mesne lords, 139-40, 301-6, 410-1, 478-81, 543-5;
towards lower classes, 133-5, 141, 508-9;
towards villeins, 133, 141-3;
its sanction, 137-8, 150-1, 152-3, 165, 187, 193, 547-61;
variations from Articles of Barons, 50, 139, 140, 151, 223, 252, 277,
279, 292, 332-3, 350, 363, 436, 512, 524, 526, 536-7;
exaggerated estimates of, 144, 146, 149, 155-7, 275, 292, 437;
manuscripts of, 194-200;
restored by Prince Louis, 194-200.
(See also _Table of Contents_.)
Charter, Henry III.’s first reissue (1216), 57, 165, 227, 382 n., 388,
392, 405, 432, 506;
its additions, 240-1, 250, 252, 258, 264, 290, 470, 506;
its omissions, 166-9, 270, 274, 351, 355, 385, 474, 500, 504, 508;
its respiting clause, 168-9, 172, 355 n., 508, 514;
on wardship, 240-1, 248, 250, 506;
on rights of Church and clergy, 250, 351, 474;
on marriage, 252;
on quarantine, 258;
on debtors, 264, 382 n.;
on Jews, 270, 274;
on aids and scutages, 276, 283, 301, 304, 305;
on merchants, 470.
Charter, Henry III.’s second reissue (1217), 142, 151, 388, 391, 392,
410 n., 514, 545;
its omissions, 151, 175, 382 n.;
its additions, 142, 172-179, 355-6, 391, 432-3, 444, 448, 480, 506,
545;
its reactionary side, 173-4, 177;
on widows’ rights, 255, 258, 382 n.;
on scutages, 172-3, 276, 283-4, 300;
on petty assizes, 326, 327, 327-8, 333;
on villeins, 343, 448, 449 n.;
on clergy, 351;
text of, 580.
Charter, Henry III.’s third reissue (1225), 168 n., 181, 183, 184, 228,
364, 410 n., 506 n., 508, 509;
its additions, 181-2, 228-9, 382 n.;
marks final form of Magna Carta, 183, 206;
its price, 182, 228-9.
Charter of Liberties of Henry I., 35, 58, 115-8, 219, 230, 239, 242-3,
336 n., 337, 385 n., 494, 544;
the model of Magna Carta, 35, 39, 58, 113, 123;
its tenor, 117-8, 242-3, 494;
on marriage, 253, 261;
on wardships, 242-3, 249, 250;
text of, 565.
Charter of Henry II., 121-2;
text of, 568.
Charter of Stephen, 77 n., 119, 120, 219, 385 n., 494 n.;
text of, 567.
Charter of Liberties (the so-called “unknown charter”). (See _Schedule
of Grievances_.)
Chase, 492.
Chatham, Lord, 133.
Chattels, 262-4, 271, 377, 385, 444 n.;
of felons’, 371, 384 n., 395-9;
of intestates, 166, 383-4, 385 n.
Church, (English), Henry II.’s struggle with, 15;
relations to State, 20, 23, 27, 226, 379;
relations to Rome, 20, 21, 27, 167 n., 227, 228 n., 474;
freedom of, 22-23, 50, 117, 120, 138, 166, 217, 222-5, 564-5;
national character of, 21, 224 n.;
question of investitures, 21-2;
canonical election (see _Bishops_);
influence of church on Charter, 50, 145, 223, 382-4, 474;
relations to Crown, 116, 220, 227, 474;
relations to John, 61, 62, 139;
relations to barons, 62;
relations to lower classes, 61-2;
its wealth, 178-9, 379.
(See also _Clergy_.)
Clergy, 167 n., 349-51, 417, 474;
Benefit of, 23, 121, 122, 138, 139, 224, 253 n., 515 n.
Cnut, 7, 17, 18, 484.
Coinage, private, 10.
Coke, Sir Edward (Chief Justice), 66, 70 n., 79 n., 133, 141, 156, 157,
183, 208, 211, 221, 236, 241 n., 246 n., 252 n., 256, 259, 329 n.
338 n., 345, 364 n., 370 n., 371 n., 396, 401, 406 n., 410 n., 442,
445, 447, 448, 463, 476, 530, 544;
his unhistorical method, 208, 447.
Combat. (See _Trial by combat_.)
_Comitatus_, 238 n., 317 n.
(See _Shire_, _Shire Court_, and also _Earldom_.)
Commissions of Justices, 329-331.
Committee of Executors. (See _Executors_.)
Common Law, 433 n.;
growth of, 15.
Common Pleas, 109, 111, 308-17;
Court of, 14, 109, 177, 311-5.
Commons (House of), 156 n., 191, 554.
_Commune Concilium_, 81, 82, 110, 124, 150, 166, 167, 173, 188, 190,
274-284, 291-301, 348, 450 n., 453, 557;
functions of, 151-2, 174, 192, 298-300, 557;
composition of, 293-8.
Commune, 138, 286-9, 553-4.
Commune of London. (See _London_.)
Compurgation, 103, 104, 432.
Confirmatio Cartarum, 85, 185, 281.
Constables, 269, 270, 358, 368-70, 387-8, 390-1, 456 n., 486 n., 502-5.
Constitutional development in England, 3, 60, 143-4, 173, 188, 192,
556.
Constitutions of Clarendon, 23, 225, 238 n., 248, 350 n., 474.
Contenement, 334, 339, 345-6, 347.
Conviction, 391-401, 415.
Coronation, 119, 218, 220;
oath, 114, 115, 116, 122, 131.
Coroner, 20, 358, 362, 370-2, 415 n.
Copyhold, 65.
Cotton, Sir Robert, 195, 196-7.
Council of St. Alban’s (1213), 34, 123, 365, 503.
Council of Oxford (1213), 36.
Councils, Lateran. (See _Lateran_.)
County, 18, 366, 368, 372-5, 431.
(See also _Firma Comitatus_.)
County Court, 13, 94, 99, 103, 177, 261, 319, 331-2;
to appoint twelve Knights to reform abuses, 51, 511, 513;
to appoint Knights for assizes, 327-8.
Courts, three rival systems of, 94-112.
Courts, Christian, 121, 379, 384-5.
Courts, local, 94, 99, 106.
(See also _County_ and _Hundred_.)
Courts, private, 60, 64, 95-7.
Courts, royal, 14, 93-112, 308-9, 319.
(See _Curia Regis_, _Chancery_, _Common Pleas_, _Exchequer_, _King’s
Bench_.)
Creasy, Sir Edward, 133-4, 212, 437 n., 446 n.
Creditors, 262-6, 271, 273-4, 316-7.
(See also _Jews_.)
Criminal Law, 107-8, 334-7, 360, 361-3, 398-401, 420-7, 446, 453-5.
(See also _Pleas of the Crown_.)
Crown: relation to feudatories, 10;
title to, 9, 113, 217, 219.
(See also _Pleas of the Crown_.)
Crusaders, 523-6, 535.
Curia Regis, 13, 14, 63, 71, 97, 106, 109, 115, 190, 191, 219, 220,
294, 309, 311, 451.
Customs, 445, 465, 468-9, 512, 543.
Cygony, Engelard de, 486 n., 503, 518-21.
Darrein presentment. (See _Presentment_.)
David I., King of Scots, 538.
Debtors, 262-6, 269, 271, 273-4, 316-7, 376-8.
_Dialogus de Scaccario_, 75, 136, 231 n., 232 n., 240, 263 n., 264 n.,
295 n., 303 n., 338 n., 384 n., 480 n.
Dicey (Prof. A. V.), 148.
Disparagement, 250-2, 541.
Disseisin, 142, 323, 324, 444, 448, 526.
Disseisin (novel), 317, 323-4, 326.
Domesday Book, 12.
“_Dominus_” (meaning of), 218.
Dower, 255-6, 260, 273-4, 531.
_Duellum._ (See _Trial by Combat_.)
Dunstan, 17, 20, 114, 116.
Dymoke (Family of), 68.
Ealdormen, 10, 17, 18.
Earldoms, Anglo-Saxon, 9;
Norman, 236-8.
Earls, 10, 18, 103, 152, 229, 232, 237, 293, 317 n., 346-9, 366, 474.
Earls Palatine, 9, 18, 78 n.
Edward Confessor, 7, 9, 18, 113;
his laws confirmed, 33, 39, 118, 130, 131, 145, 503.
Edward I., 85, 176, 271, 298, 307-8, 315, 356, 365 n., 366 n., 411,
412-3, 471, 510, 523, 543, 556-7;
his reforms, 186-193;
his attitude to the Charter, 186, 189, 412-3;
his attitude to the Church, 227;
his Parliaments, 189-192;
his _Inspeximus_ of the Charter, 198, 205, 206, 232 n., 352 n.
Edward II., 472, 501, 510.
Edward III., 281, 357, 389, 472, 475, 510.
Election; meaning of word, 328;
principle of, 25, 51, 176, 327-8;
of knights to reform abuses, 51, 511;
in relation to kingship, 219-220;
of jurors, 327-8.
England, growth of a united, 4, 6;
unification of, 7.
English church. (See _Church_.)
English law. (See _Law_.)
English monarchy. (See _Monarchy_.)
Escheat, 73-5, 179, 394-7, 478-81.
Estovers, 254, 258-9, 399, 496.
Exchequer, 11-12, 13, 14, 19, 63, 171, 172, 196, 262, 264, 311, 316 n.;
Court of, 311-2, 316-7.
Executive, two types of, 5.
Executors of Charter, 51, 53, 513, 525, 532, 534, 543-561.
Eyres. (See _Justices of Eyre_.)
Falconry. (See _Fowling_.)
Fee-farm, 67, 70, 427-9.
Felony, 73, 74, 371, 384 n., 394-401.
Feudal aids. (See _Aids_.)
Feudal anarchy, 7, 10, 13, 16, 60, 148, 409.
Feudal grievances, 58-112, 145, 409.
Feudalism in England, 8, 9, 10, 64-5, 66, 70, 409.
Feudal incidents, 72-80, 308.
(See also _Reliefs_, _Escheats_, _Wardships_, _Marriages_, _Primer
Seisins_, and _Fines for Alienations_.)
Feudal jurisdictions. (See under _Jurisdictions_ and under _Courts_.)
Feudal obligations, 64-93, 138-9, 166, 230, 308.
(See also _Services_, _Incidents_, and _Aids_.)
Feudal services, 15, 64, 65, 71, 82-6, 234, 306-8.
Feudal tenures. (See _Tenures_.)
Fictions (legal), 81, 317 n., 412-3.
Fines, 90-1, 245, 261, 307, 337, 461, 493, 498, 530-3;
differ from amercements, 337, 344-5.
Fines for alienations, 79-80.
_Firma burgi_, 284, 285, 376, 519.
_Firma comitatus_, 166, 372-6, 519.
Fishing, 357-8, 403-4.
Fitz Aylwin, Henry, 41.
Fitz Peter, Geoffrey, 36.
Fitz Walter, Robert, 30, 31, 41, 446, 507 n., 517, 551.
Flambard, Ralph, 10, 71, 234, 238, 239, 242, 249.
Foreigners, 140, 145, 290-1, 440, 465-73, 474.
Foreign service, 85-6, 154, 307-8.
Forest Charters, 53, 171, 175, 181, 184, 185, 337 n., 356, 485, 487,
495, 496, 497 n., 499, 501.
Forest Courts, 482, 489-92, 497-8.
Foresters, 34, 485-9, 497, 499-501, 502 n., 503, 508-9.
Forests, 166, 368, 482-502, 507-14, 526;
protests by prelates anent, 52;
boundaries of, 184, 185, 507-11.
Fowling, King’s rights of, 353-8, 507-8.
Frankalmoin, 67, 70, 307, 350.
Freedom, problem of, 4-5.
Freehold, 65-71, 445.
Freeman, Prof., 71, 86, 87, 114, 115 n., 219, 234.
Freeman, defined, 135-7, 228-9, 338 n., 352 n., 448;
rights of, 334, 338-40, 392, 405, 436, 440.
Free socage. (See _Socage_.)
Fyrd, 15, 352.
Glanvill, 74, 80, 230 n., 233 n., 344 n., 345, 383, 395-6, 406, 408 n.,
428 n., 429 n., 441 n., 504, 528, 529.
Gneist, Dr. Rudolf, 129-130, 134, 145 n., 212, 442 n., 450, 557-8.
Godwin, 18.
Government. (See _Local government_.)
Grand Assize. (See _Assize_.)
Grand Jury. (See _Jury_.)
Great Charter. (See _Charter_.)
Great Serjeanties. (See _Serjeanties_.)
Green, John Richard, 26, 134.
Grey, John de, 28.
Gross, Dr. Charles, 362 n.
Gualo (papal legate), 56, 57, 164, 170, 171.
Guardian, 259.
(See also _Wardship_)
Guilds, 466, 470, 473.
Habeas corpus. (See _Writ of_.)
Hall, Hubert, 85 n., 173 n., 203-4, 464-5 n.
Hallam, Henry, 78, 134, 135, 243, 328, 364, 389, 437 n., 458, 460, 532.
Hardell (William), Mayor of London, 289 n., 551.
Harold, King, 9.
Hawking. (See _Fowling_.)
Henry I., 7, 11-12, 19, 21, 116, 117, 219, 230, 242, 243, 494;
his achievements, 10-12;
relations to church, 21, 22, 224, 226, 239;
scutage under, 87;
charter to Jews, 269;
charter to London, 285-6;
Charter of liberties.
(See _Charter_.)
Henry II., 7, 13-16, 249, 294, 295, 313, 384 n., 478, 494, 497, 538;
achievements of, 13-15, 59, 158;
institutes new system of procedure, 14, 107-112, 319, 325, 361, 407;
his policy, 106-7, 366-7, 466;
invents writ process, 108, 406-9;
opposes the hereditary principle, 19;
discourages trial by combat, 108, 161, 162, 320-2, 419-20;
attacks the private jurisdictions, 106, 322 n., 406-9, 432, 455;
relations to church, 22-3, 122, 224, 225, 249;
takes aids, 81;
his levy of scutage, 81, 86, 87, 88, 172;
lays foundations of trial by jury, 158-163;
Charter to London, 286;
opens royal courts to all freeholders, 14, 93-4, 97-8, 106, 411, 460.
(See also _Charter_.)
Henry III., 147, 164, 168, 271, 305, 314, 358, 384 n., 452, 461, 471,
474, 507, 509-10, 556;
his advisers accept the Charter, 57, 187;
takes aids, 81;
takes scutages, 174-5, 304;
his attitude to Magna Carta, 164, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186-7, 471,
507, 509;
his alliance with Rome, 167 n., 227, 228, 384 n.;
declared of age, 180, 183.
(See also under _Charter_.)
Honorius III., 180, 181.
Honours, 10, 71, 232, 235-6;
Courts of, 10.
Hostages, 30, 514-8, 536, 541, 560.
Hoveden, Roger of, 9, 415, 416.
House of Commons. (See _Commons_.)
House of Lords. (See _Lords_.)
Hubert de Burgh, 44, 51, 57, 170, 180, 182 n., 183, 290, 542 n., 559.
Hubert, Walter (Archbishop), 25, 27, 132, 361, 380 n., 404, 411 n.
Hundred, 94, 96, 372-4, 431;
court of, 13, 94, 99, 159.
Imprisonment (arbitrary), 156, 457-9.
Incidents. (See _Feudal incidents_.)
Indictment, 108, 160, 364, 398-9, 431, 436.
Innocent III., 28, 31, 40, 42, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 85, 182,
222, 516, 541, 561.
Innocent IV., 227.
Inquest of Service (1212), 29, 89-90, 91-2, 172.
Inquest of Sheriffs. (See _Sheriffs_.)
_Inquisitio_, principle of. (See _Recognitio_.)
Interest, 265-6, 310. (See also _Jews_ and _Usury_.)
Interregnum, 116.
Investitures (struggle of), 21-2.
James I., 72 n., 387, 394, 475.
Jarls (Danish), 18.
Jews, 166, 171, 175, 256, 262-74, 305, 310, 384 n., 435, 439-40.
Joan (John’s natural daughter), 29, 30.
John; his title to Crown, 217-220;
his excessive exactions, 26-7;
his levies of scutage, 86-93;
his charters to English Church, 39, 41, 63, 77, 139, 226, 227, 249;
to London, 41, 288-9, 404, 470;
to Jews, 269;
meets barons at Runnymede, 43, 46;
takes Crusader’s vow, 40;
his relations with national Church, 39, 44, 61, 62, 249;
with Rome, 28-9, 36, 61, 62, 63, 91;
his surrender to Innocent, 31-2, 36;
asks Innocent to annul charter, 53, 182;
his treatment of Welsh hostages, 30, 514-8;
his death, 57.
(See also _Charter_.)
Judges (King’s), 108, 109, 225, 358, 416, 502-5.
Judgment (in medieval law), 101, 103-5.
Judgment of peers. (See _Peers_).
Jurisdiction, royal, 14, 93-112, 169 n., 309.
(See also _Courts_.)
Jurisdictions, private, 10, 14-15, 93-112, 169 n., 406-9.
(See also _Courts_.)
Jury, trial by, 25, 456-7;
relation to _recognitio_, 106, 159;
relation to writ _de odio_, 108, 161, 420-1;
relation to Magna Carta, 158-163, 419-21.
Jury (of accusation or presenting jury), 158, 159-160, 431.
Jury (civil), 158, 161-3.
Jury (grand), 158, 160.
Jury (petty), 158, 161, 420-1, 457.
Justice, three systems of, 93-9, 313, 328, 360 n.
(See also _Courts_ and _Jurisdictions_.)
Justices (King’s). (See _Judges_.)
Justices of the Peace, 20, 331, 367.
Justices, itinerant (or of Eyre), 12, 13, 19, 20, 318-9, 329, 361.
Justices of Assize, 176, 177, 318, 319-20, 329-331, 332;
commissions of, 329-331.
Kiersey, capitulary of, 73.
King’s Bench, 14, 109, 311-2, 313, 314-5, 348.
Knight’s fee, 83, 92, 233, 277 n., 306.
Knight’s service, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 233, 427-8.
Kydells. (See _Weirs_.)
Lanfranc, 21, 116.
Lateran Council (1099), 21.
Lateran Council (1215), 55, 161, 399, 432.
Law (English), development of, 14.
Law (_lex_), technical meaning of, 102, 161, 430, 440-1.
(See also _Trial_.)
Leasehold, 65-6.
Legal fictions. (See _Fictions_.)
Legal procedure. (See _Procedure_.)
Leofric, 18.
Letters testimonial, 50;
text of, 563 n.
Littleton, 66, 68, 69, 70 n., 233 n., 252, 428.
Llywelyn, 29, 536.
Local Government (problem of), 16-20.
London, 42, 56, 57, 119, 140, 270, 274-5, 284-91, 340, 404-5, 467,
470-3;
City and Tower granted by John in security, 51, 560;
taxation of, 274-5, 277-81;
John’s charters to, 41, 288-9, 404, 470.
Longchamp, 63.
Lords (House of), 237, 455-6.
Louis (son of King Philip of France), 56, 165, 170.
Macy, Prof. Jesse, 127 n.
Magna Carta. (See _Charter_.)
Maitland, Prof. F. W., 95 n., 98 n., 128 n, 144 n., 153 n., 207, 362
n., 456.
Manors, 10, 71, 141, 342, 352 n., 393;
on royal demesne, 372, 376.
Manorial courts, 10, 93, 96, 106.
(See also _Courts_ and _Jurisdictions_.)
Marriage, feudal incident of, 66, 68, 69, 77-8, 250-3, 260-1.
Maritagium, 254-7, 531.
Marshal (William, earl Marshal), 39, 44, 215, 216, 507, 559;
a mediator between King and barons, 39, 40, 43, 559;
acts as Regent, 164, 165, 170, 171, 180, 184, 201, 299.
Matilda (daughter of Henry I.), 12-13, 118, 162.
Mayor of London, 288, 289, 290, 551.
Medley (Prof. D. J.), 295 n., 296, 327 n., 564 n.
Mercenaries, 15, 30, 39, 165, 166, 261, 391, 522-3.
Merchants, 61, 63, 140, 145, 334, 340-1, 402, 415, 416, 440, 463-73,
474.
Ministerial responsibility, 25, 150, 188, 192, 298, 505.
Minorities (Rights of), 299-300.
Mirror of Justices, 207, 357 n., 431 n., 434.
Monarchy, two types of, 5.
Monarchy (English), 60, 409;
growth of, 4, 6, 12, 13, 15, 18, 20;
strength of, 7, 12, 15, 16, 24, 59;
weakness of, under Anglo-Saxons, 16, 20;
functions of, 94, 97.
Monopolies, 140, 156, 445-6, 469, 470-5.
Montfort (Simon de), 188, 189.
Moore, Stuart A. and H. S., 358, 403 n.
Mort d’ancestor, 317, 324, 333 n., 426.
Municipalities. (See _Boroughs_.)
Nationality (conception of), 149, 156.
National unity in England, growth of, 6, 149;
forces opposed to, 7.
Neilson, George, 321 n., 527 n., 528 n.
Nicholas (Papal legate), 36, 227, 365.
Norgate, Miss Kate, 36, 49 n., 50 n., 58 n., 90 n., 92 n., 212, 288,
374 n., 559.
Norman Conquest, 5, 9, 20, 71, 105, 115, 158, 321, 366, 484.
Norman period and rule, characteristics of 5, 7.
Novel disseisin. (See _Disseisin_.)
Oligarchic elements in England, 5.
Ordeal, 74, 102, 103, 104, 161, 399, 415, 430-3, 528-9.
Original writs. (See _Writs_.)
Outlaws, 74, 446, 473-4.
Parliament, 150, 173, 185-6, 188, 190, 294, 557;
rights of, 81;
functions of, 174, 190-1, 298;
composition of, 190.
Parliamentary taxation. (See _Taxation_.)
Parliamentary Representation. (See _Representation_.)
Palatine earldoms. (See _Earls_.)
Pandulf (Papal legate), 31, 54, 561.
Papal Bull, annulling Charter, 55.
Papal _Curia_, 28.
Papal interference in England, 21, 28, 32, 54, 56, 182, 227.
Papal legates. (See _Gualo_, _Nicholas_, _Pandulf_.)
Paris, Matthew, 32, 53, 58, 181, 293 n., 300-1, 453, 543 n., 550, 559,
561 n.
Parks, 247, 492.
Peasantry. (See _Villeins_.)
Peers, 103, 152, 216 n., 346-9.
Peers (Judgment of), 158 n., 346, 436, 438-40, 449-50 n. , 452-6, 523.
Peter des Roches (Bishop of Winchester), 36-7, 51, 54, 58, 180, 183,
215, 300, 452, 503.
Peter of Wakefield, 30.
Petition of Barons (1258), 232 n., 252, 333 n., 430, 481, 507.
Petty Assize. (See _Assize_.)
Petty Jury. (See _Jury_.)
Petty Serjeanty. (See _Serjeanty_.)
Philip (King of France), 31, 33, 37, 56, 470.
Pike, L. O., 152 n., 295 n., 313, 347, 348 n., 442 n., 444 n., 449-50
n., 456, 457 n.
Pipe Rolls, 11.
Pleas. (See _Common pleas_.)
Pleas of the Crown, 107, 109, 111, 112, 310, 314-5, 359-363, 370-1,
398;
in Scots law, 360.
Pleas of the forest, 368.
Pollock, Sir Frederic, 310.
Pope, 61, 79 n., 164, 167 n., 227.
(See _Papal_, also _Honorius_ and _Innocent_.)
Presentment (darrein), 176-7, 225, 317, 325, 326, 333.
Primer seisin, 78-9, 248, 254.
Privy Council, 191.
Procedure (legal), 14, 99-112;
Henry II.’s reforms, 14, 106-112.
Proof (in medieval law), 102-3;
(See also _Trial_.)
Protests by the prelates in John’s favour, 52, 560-1;
text of, 579.
Prothero, G. W., 85 n., 117 n., 125 n., 131-2, 139-140, 149 n., 154 n.,
175 n., 203, 212 n., 228 n., 448.
Provisions of Oxford (1258), 187, 504.
Purprestures, 495.
Purveyance, 142, 369, 386-90, 392-4.
Quarantine (Widow’s), 258.
Queen’s gold, 232.
Ramsay, Sir James, 92 n., 212, 225 n., 243 n., 375 n., 394 n.
_Recognitio_ (principle of), 34, 105-6, 159, 160, 162, 323, 325, 512.
Reeves, John, 209-210, 257, 340 n., 447 n., 450.
Regarders, 484, 490, 491.
Regency, 164, 169.
Relief (feudal incident of), 68, 69, 73, 117, 179, 239-241, 249, 276
n.;
not due from bishop-elect, 117, 238-9;
not due after wardship, 239;
definition of sums due, 230-3.
Representation, principle of, 25, 34, 36, 160, 190, 192, 297-8;
parliamentary, 292, 297-8.
Responsibility. (See _Ministerial_.)
Restoration (The), 66, 67, 248, 387, 502.
Richard I., 24-6, 63, 81, 89, 148, 231, 286, 539;
lessons of his reign, 25-6.
Richard II., 473.
Roches (Peter des). (See _Peter_.)
Roger, bishop of Salisbury, 11, 119.
Roger of Hoveden. (See _Hoveden_.)
Roger of Wendover. (See _Wendover_.)
Rolls. (See _Pipe Rolls_.)
Rome. (See _Pope_ and _Papal_.)
Round, John Horace, 71, 85 n., 87, 88, 92, 95 n., 119, 121 n., 202-3,
225 n., 234, 285-7, 324 n.
Royal justice. (See _Courts_ and _Jurisdiction_.)
Royal writs. (See _Writs_.)
Runnymede, 43-5, 53, 64.
Salisbury, Roger, bishop of. (See _Roger_.)
Salisbury Plain, oath of homage sworn on, 10.
Schedule of grievances (27 April, 1215), 40, 44-5, 84 n., 202-5, 245,
246, 258 n., 307 n.;
text of, 569.
Scotland, 30;
relations to England, 537-43;
land tenures in, 67, 69 n., 70, 72 n., 80;
kings of (see _Alexander_, _David_, and _William_);
Princesses Margaret and Isabel of, 537, 539-42.
Scutage, 15, 29, 37, 64, 84 n., 86-93, 172-3, 274-6, 294, 302, 304,
308;
grand serjeanties not liable for, 68;
in charter of 1215, 274-6, 292;
in charter of 1217, 172-3;
by sub-tenants, 302.
_Scutum._ (See _Knight’s fee_.)
Seal (king’s great), 169, 180, 181, 184.
Seebohm, Frederic, 95 n., 341.
Seisin, 323.
(See also _Primer Seisin_ and _Disseisin_.)
Serjeanty (grand), 67-8, 70, 78 n., 233, 307.
Serjeanty (petty), 68-9, 70, 78 n., 233, 307, 427, 429.
Service. (See under _Feudal service_, _Foreign service_, and _Knight’s
service_.)
Sheriff, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18-19, 34, 42, 47, 50, 51, 177, 244, 364,
366-8, 372, 376, 392, 398, 399, 431, 502-5, 511, 513;
chief magistrate of county, 18, 366;
his powers, 364, 366-7, 376, 399;
his gradual decline, 20, 367;
his tyrannies, 20, 359, 366 n., 373-5, 377;
his “tourn,” 97, 177, 360, 364;
his “aid,” 261;
not to hold pleas of Crown, 358-72;
in Scotland and in America, 367-8.
Sheriffs (inquest of), 19.
Shire. (See _County_.)
Socage, 66-7, 69, 70, 76, 81, 233, 307, 427-9.
Statutes. (See separate _Index to Statutes_.)
Stephen (King), 12-13, 19, 118-9, 162, 219, 243;
relations to Church, 22, 77 n., 119, 224;
his title, 119-120, 219.
(See also _Charters of_.)
Stephen Langton, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 43, 52, 62, 122, 139, 145,
181, 223, 226, 227, 249, 451, 506, 532,542 n., 551;
a mediator between king and barons, 39, 40, 50, 52, 54, 513, 524-5,
531, 542 n., 560, 562;
influence on substance of Great Charter, 50, 506.
Stubbs, Bishop, 43, 54, 86, 87, 117, 118, 125, 134, 140 n., 143 n.,
149, 165 n., 169 n., 170 n., 179 n., 182 n., 184 n., 206, 211, 220
n., 247 n., 257 n., 259, 284-5, 296, 299 n., 351 n., 365 n., 391 n.,
430 n., 453 n., 483, 491, 493, 503, 532, 544, 559.
Succession, intestate, 166, 175, 382-5;
testate, 376-82.
Suit and service, 72, 82-6.
Suit, at county and hundred courts, 94, 177, 261, 332;
at forest courts, 482, 497-8;
at lord’s court, 72, 82.
Suit (or forewitnesses), 101-2, 433-4.
Swanimotes, 491.
Synod of Whitby, 7.
Tallage, 140, 142, 270, 272, 277-81, 376.
Taxation, 20, 26-7, 152, 165, 166, 185, 196, 274-284;
heavy under Richard, 24-5, 148, 288;
common Council’s rights over, 152, 174, 185, 274-284, 298;
parliamentary, 281, 281-4.
Taylor, Dr. Hannis, 130, 140, 159 n., 212, 296.
Tenant, 65.
Tenement, 65, 345.
Tenure by barony, 66.
Tenure by castle-ward, 70 n.
Tenure in chivalry. (See _Knight’s service_.)
Tenures, 95-71.
(See also _Burgage_, _Fee-farm_, _Frankalmoin_, _Knight’s service_,
_Serjeanty_, _Socage_, _Villeinage_, also under _Freehold_.)
Thayer, Prof. J. B., 159 n., 430 n., 433 n., 441 n.
Thomson, Richard, 210, 211.
Tourn. (See _Sheriff’s tourn_.)
Traders. (See _Merchants_.)
Treason, 74, 395-7.
Trial (in medieval law), 101, 102-5, 161, 399, 417, 430.
Trial by combat, 103, 105, 108, 109, 161, 162, 320-1, 323, 325, 406,
417-420, 425-7, 433, 527-30.
Trial by jury. (See _Jury_.)
Turner, G. J., 184 n., 484 n., 509 n.
“Unknown Charter of Liberties.” (See _Schedule of Grievances_.)
Usury, 262, 265-6, 270, 272, 384 n.
(See also _Jews_.)
Verderers, 368, 487.
Vesci, Richard de, 30, 31, 40, 446, 517, 551.
_Vicecomes._ (See _Sheriff_.)
Villeinage, 66, 342, 449.
Villeins, 93, 94-5, 106, 136, 141-3, 143 n., 145, 245, 252, 278, 334,
338 n., 341-4, 393, 410 n., 448, 449 n.;
legal status of, 341-3.
Vinogradoff, Prof. Paul, 344 n.
Wales, 29, 30, 533-7.
Wapentake, 94, 160, 372-4.
War, right of private, 10.
Warden, 485-6.
(See _Constable_, also _Guardian_.)
Wardship, ordinary, 67, 68, 69, 75-7, 78, 117, 142, 179, 239-250, 259,
265, 427-8, 461 n., 526;
over vacant sees, 117, 224, 225, 239, 505-7;
prerogative, 428-30, 526.
Warrens, 247 n., 492-3, 511.
Waste of ward’s lands, 244-6, 250;
of felon’s lands, 394-7;
in forests, 495, 496-7.
Watling Street, 7.
Weirs, 357, 402-5.
Welshmen, 30, 440, 533-7.
Wendover (Roger of), 30, 35, 38, 43, 53, 123, 204, 205, 355 n., 550 n.,
561 n.
Wer, 335, 336, 340.
Wessex, supremacy of, 7, 17;
royal House of, 16, 113.
Westminster, 12, 111, 177, 310, 314, 316, 326, 333.
Whitby, Synod of, 7.
Widow’s rights, 243, 253-261, 273-4, 380, 384, 527.
Wills, 376-82.
William I., 7, 8-10, 12, 16, 21, 71, 83, 106, 115, 116, 191, 234, 507,
514;
difficulties and policy of, 8-10, 65;
local government under, 16, 18-19;
relations to Rome, 21-2;
his innovations, 105-6;
his title to English Crown, 9, 115.
William II., 10-11, 21, 71, 116, 239, 242, 249;
his relations to the church, 21, 238-9, 249.
William the Lion, King of Scots, 252, 538-41.
Witenagemot, 9, 18, 114, 219, 294.
Wites, 335, 336, 337 n.
Witnesses, 102.
Writ _de odio et atia_, 108, 161, 417-25.
Writ _praecipe_, 108-9, 405-13.
Writ of _habeas corpus_, 156, 421-2.
Writ _ne exeat regno_, 476-7.
Writs (royal), 14, 406, 417, 460.
Writ process, 14, 108, 406-9.
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Transcriber’s Note
The entry for ‘3 Edward I. c. 41’ refers to ‘520 n.’ which appears in
‘527 n.’
The entry for ‘5 Henry IV. c. 14’ in the index of Statutes refers to
‘425 n.’ That note refers to ‘1 Henry IV. c. 14’, which is most likely
correct. One summary of that Statute says that it “abolished appeals of
treason in parliament, and sent the accuser to established courts of
law.” (Lolme, _The Constitution of England_, 1839, p. 137.)
Coincidentally, a reference in the index entry for ‘Constables’ refers
to ‘456 n.’ No note on that page mentions that topic. However, the
‘Court of the Constable and Marshal’ _is_ mentioned in the same ‘425
n.’, which is not indexed to that topic. We suggest that the reference
to 425 n. was intended.
Lapses in the punctuation of index and footnote entries have been
regularized with no further mention.
Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected,
and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the
original. Those with a third number refer to the line within a footnote
beginning on that page.
65.37 copyhold and leasehold[.] Restored.
83.118.4 go with the King an[d] serve him Restored.
149.23 whether conscious or uncon[s]cious Inserted.
219.328.1 a prisoner in Corfe Castle[.[ Added.
307.31 to those of Charles II[.] Added.
323.37 twelve local gentlem[e/a]n Replaced.
367.20 for each county by p[r]icking at random Removed.
386.3 he can have postpon[e]ment Inserted.
422.762.1 _En[t]stehung der S[ch]wurgerichte_ Inserted.
425.14 I[n/t] was unfair that he should be Replaced.
435.793.1 _En[t]stehung der Schwurgerichte_ Inserted.
440.809.1 See _Placitorum Abbrev[i]atio_ Inserted.
483.33 these high[ ]places of royal prerogative Inserted.
488.914.3 to speak of "agisting a wood,[”] Added.
490.35 exercised functions anal[a/o]gous to those Replaced.
537.11 to be otherwise acc[c]ording Removed.
540.1052.4 virtually her fellow-[p]risoners Restored.
547.41 the said five-and[-]twenty barons Restored.
577.37 manu nostra saisita[ saisita] fuerint Removed.
588.33 sumagio aliquod chim[u/i]nagium capiatur Replaced.
588.38 detur chiminagium for[i/e]stariis nostris Replaced.
601.18 influence o[n/f] church on Charter Replaced.