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List of Texts Used. 1 - Sir Frederick Pollock, The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, vol. 1 [1898]

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The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I. Reprint of 2nd edition, with a Select Bibliography and Notes by Professor S.F. Milsom. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010). Vol. 1.

Part of: The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, 2 vols.

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List of Texts Used.1

[R = Rolls Series. Rec. Com. = Record Commission.

Seld. = Selden Society. Camd. = Camden Society.

Surt. = Surtees Society.]

  •  

    Collections of ancient laws and documents.

    Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, ed. F. Liebermann, in progress.
  • Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, ed. Reinhold Schmid, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1858.
  • Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, 8vo ed. (Rec. Com.).
  • Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents, ed. Haddan and Stubbs, vol. iii. Oxford, 1871.
  • Quadripartitus, ed. F. Liebermann, Halle, 1892.
  • Consiliatio Cnuti, ed. F. Liebermann, Halle, 1893.
  • Leges Edwardi Confessoris, ed. F. Liebermann, Halle, 1894.
  • Instituta Cnuti, ed. F. Liebermann, Transactions of Royal Hist. Soc. N. S. vol. vii. p. 77.
  • Codex Diplomaticus Ævi Saxonici, ed. J. M. Kemble (Eng. Hist. Soc.).
  • Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici, ed. B. Thorpe, London, 1865.
  • Cartularium Saxonicum, ed. W. de G. Birch, 1885 ff.
  • Placita Anglo-Normannica, ed. M. M. Bigelow, London, 1879.
  • Select Charters, ed. W. Stubbs, Oxford, 1881.
  • Chartes des Libertés Anglaises, ed. Ch. Bémont, Paris, 1892.
  • Statutes of the Realm, vol. i (Rec. Com.), 1800.

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    Judicial Records.

    Rolls of the King’s Court, Ric. I. (Pipe Roll Soc.).
  • Rotuli Curiae Regis temp. Ric. I. et Joh., ed. Palgrave (Rec. Com.).
  • Placitorum Abbreviatio (Rec. Com.).
  • Select Pleas of the Crown, 1200–1225 (Seld.).
  • Select Civil Pleas, 1200–1203 (Seld.).
  • Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester, 1221, ed. Maitland, London, 1884.
  • Bracton’s Note Book, ed. Maitland, Cambridge, 1887.
  • Three Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland (Surt.).
  • Placita de Quo Warranto (Rec. Com.).
  • Somersetshire Assize Rolls (Somers. Record Soc.).
  • Select Cases from Coroners’ Rolls (Seld.).
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum, vol. i (official edition).
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, 1305 (R).
  • Select Pleas in Manorial Courts (Seld.).
  • The Court Baron (Seld.).
  • Durham Halmote Rolls (Surt.).
  • The Leet Jurisdiction in Norwich (Seld.).

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    Miscellaneous Records.

    Domesday Book (official edition).
  • Pipe Roll of 31 Henry I. (Rec. Com.).
  • Pipe Rolls of Henry II. (Pipe Roll Soc.).
  • Red Book of the Exchequer (R).
  • Liber Niger Scaccarii, ed. Hearne, Oxford, 1728.
  • Rotuli Literarum Clausarum, 1204–1227 (Rec. Com.).
  • Rotuli Literarum Patentium, 1201–1216 (Rec. Com.).
  • Rotuli Chartarum, 1199–1216 (Rec. Com.).
  • Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus, temp. Joh. (Rec. Com.).
  • Excerpta e Rotulis Finium, 1216–1272 (Rec. Com.).
  • Fines, sive Pedes Finium, 1195–1215, ed. Hunter (Rec. Com.).
  • Feet of Fines, 1182–1196 (Pipe Roll Soc.).
  • Rotuli Hundredorum, Hen. III. et Edw. I. (Rec. Com.).
  • Parliamentary Writs (Rec. Com.).
  • Testa de Neville (Rec. Com.).
  • Documents illustrative of English History, ed. Cole (Rec. Com.).
  • Calendarium Genealogicum (Rec. Com.).
  • Foedera, Conventiones etc., ed. 1816 (Rec. Com.).
  • Prynne, Records, i.e. An exact Chronological Vindication . . . of the King’s Supreme Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, etc., London, 1655.
  • Munimenta Gildhallae (R), containing Liber Albus and Liber Custumarum.

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    Law-books.

    Bracton, Tractatus de Legibus, ed. 1569.
  • Bracton and Azo (Seld.).
  • Britton, ed. F. M. Nichols, Oxford, 1865.
  • Fleta, seu Commentarius Iuris Anglicani, ed. 1685.
  • Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus, ed. 1604.
  • Hengham, Summae, printed at the end of Selden’s ed. of Fortescue, De Laudibus.
  • The Mirror of Justices (Seld.).

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    Law reports.

    Year Books of 20–21, 21–22, 30–31, 32–33, 33–35 Edward I. (R).

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    Chronicles, Annals etc.

    Abbatum. Gesta Abbatum Monasterii S. Albani (R).
  • Abingdon, Chronicon Monasterii de (R).
  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (R).
  • Annales Monastici (R).
  • Antiquis Legibus, Liber de (Camd.).
  • Becket. Materials for the Life of Thomas Becket (R).
  • Benedictus Abbas. See Gesta Henrici.
  • Brakelonda, Chronica Jocelini de (Camd.).
  • Burton, Annales de, in Annales Monastici, vol. i (R).
  • Cambrensis. See Giraldus.
  • Canterbury. See Gervase.
  • Coggeshall, Radulphi de, Chronicon Anglicanum (R).
  • Cotton, Bartholomaei de, Historia Anglicana (R).
  • Diceto, Radulfide, Opera Historica (R).
  • Dunstaplia, Annales Prioratus de, in Annales Monastici, vol. iii (R).
  • Durham, Symeon of, The Historical Works of (R).
  • Eadmeri, Historia Novorum (R).
  • Edward I. and Edward II., Chronicles of (R).
  • Eveshamensis, Chronicon Abbatiae (R).
  • Flores Historiarum (R).
  • Franciscana, Monumenta (R).
  • Gervase of Canterbury, Works of (R).
  • Gesta Henrici Secundi (Benedict of Peterborough) (R).
  • Giraldus Cambrensis, The Works of (R).
  • Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle of Robert of (R).
  • Hemingburgh, Walteri de, Chronicon (Eng. Hist. Soc.).
  • Hovedene, Rogeri de, Chronica (R).
  • Hugonis, Magna Vita S. (R).
  • Huntendunensis, Henrici, Historia (R).
  • Liber de Antiquis Legibus (Camd.).
  • Malmesbiriensis, Willelmi, Gesta Regum (R).
  • Mapes, Gualterus, de Nugis Curialium (Camd.).
  • Melsa, Chronicon Monasterii de (R).
  • Monte, Roberti de, Chronica, in Chronicles of Stephen etc. vol. iv (R).
  • Newborough, William of, in Chronicles of Stephen etc. vol. i (R).
  • Parisiensis, Matthaei, Chronica Majora (R).
  • Parisiensis, Matthaei, Historia Anglorum (R).
  • Ramsey, Chronicle of the Abbey of (R).
  • Rishanger, Willelmi, Chronica et Annales (R).
  • Tewkesbury, Annals of, in Annales Monastici, vol. i (R).
  • Torigneio, Roberti de, Chronica, in Chronicles of Stephen etc. vol. iv (R).
  • Triveti, Nicholai, Annales (Eng. Hist. Soc.).
  • Waverleia, Annales de, in Annales Monastici, vol. ii (R).
  • Wigorniensis, Florentii, Chronicon (Eng. Hist. Soc.).
  • Wykes, Thomae, Chronicon, in Annales Monastici, vol. iv (R).
  • York, Historians of the Church of (R).

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    Letters, etc.

    Academica, Munimenta (R).
  • Cantuarienses, Epistolae, in Chronicles etc. of Richard I., vol. ii (R).
  • Cantuarienses, Literae (R).
  • Dunelmense, Registrum Palatinum (R).
  • Grosseteste, Letters of Bishop (R).
  • Lanfranci Opera, ed. Giles, Oxford, 1844.
  • Northern Registers, Historical Papers and Letters from (R).
  • Osmund, Register of St. (R).
  • Peckham, Registrum Johannis (R).
  • Royal and other Historical Letters, Henry III. (R).
  • Saresberiensis, Joannis, Opera, ed. Giles, Oxford, 1848.

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    Cartularies.

    Bath, Two Chartularies (Somerset Record Soc. 1893).
  • Battle, Cartulary (Camd.).
  • Brinkburn, Cartulary (Surt.).
  • Burton, Cartulary (Salt Society, 1884).
  • Gloucester, History and Cartulary (R).
  • Guisborough, Cartulary (Surt.).
  • Malmesbury, Register (R).
  • Newminster, Cartulary (Surt.).
  • Paul’s, Domesday of St. (Camd.).
  • Peterborough, Black Book of, at the end of Chronicon Petroburgense (Camd.).
  • Ramsey, Cartulary (R).
  • Rievaulx, Cartulary (Surt.).
  • Sarum, Charters and Documents of (R).
  • Selby, Coucher Book (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc. 1891–93).
  • Whalley, Coucher Book (Chetham Soc. 1847).
  • Whitby, Cartulary (Surt.).
  • Winchcombe, Landboc, vol. i, ed. D. Royce, Exeter, 1892.
  • Worcester, Register (Camd.).
  • Round, Ancient Charters (Pipe Roll Soc.).
  • Madox, Formulare Anglicanum, London, 1702.
  • Monasticon Anglicanum, ed. 1817 etc.

[1 ] For texts relating to Normandy see below, vol. i. pp. 70–71; and for texts relating to the English boroughs, see below, vol. i. p. 676.