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Manuscripts
f. ii: 19th century notes regarding the Bengough family. ff. 1-4v: chapter list to Bracton; f. 4v: a prayer, a note on herbs, verses about Tedaldus (pope Gregory X), a political prophecy in verse attributed to the chaplain of Roger le Brabazon (justice of King's Bench in 1296), verses about a pope Lucius. ff. 5-263: [Henry Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Anglie]: Rubric: Que sunt Regi necessaria. Incipit liber domini Henrici de Bracton. Incipit: In rege qui recte regit necessaria sunt duo hec, arma videlicet et leges ... Explicit: qui sunt ad fidem domini Regis sive inde preceptum habuerint sive non. Explicit liber Henrici de Bractoun de legibus et consuetudinibus Anglicanis. ff. 263-264: [Statutes, including the Statute for religious men; Extenta manerii; Assize of weights and measures; Assize of bread and ale]. ff. 264-265: [Ordinatio cartarum]: Incipit: Quam prona sunt estatis studia et quanto vivamus diucius tanto proniora et hec quare plurimi sunt contractus utpote conductiones emptiones venditiones obligationes ... Explicit: Ego A. de B. et heredes mei vel assignati totam terram predictam cum pertinentiis sicut prius dictum est prefacto C. de B. et cetera. Explicit ordinacio Cartarum. ff. 265-267v: [Statutes, including a note on weights and measures; the View of frankpledge; Magna Carta; verses; a copy of a writ of entry brought by William of Sparesholte against Gerald de Insula dated at Winchester, 21 September in the year of "our" reign 13; the Versus Bruti ad Dianam and its pendant Responsio Diane; the Carta de foresta ending defectively].
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