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Statutes primarily from the reigns of Henry III and Edward I : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 20-169v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. On f. 2, notes of courts held at Audeley; f. 2v, copy of a court roll dated at Audeley 1329; f. 3r-v, cancelled leaf; ff. 4-13, chapter list of Magna Carta and other statutes; f. 13v, miniature; ff. 14-19v, calendar (added, s. XV).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1340 and 1360]
Call number: mssEL 34 A 8
Creator: England(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The material on f. 2v suggests early ownership in Staffordshire. On f. 149, three armorial shields: the first, of England: gules, 3 lions passant gardant or; the second, of Spencer: quarterly argent and gules, 2 and 3 fret or, overall a bend sable; the third, of Garland of Lincolnshire (?): gules, 2 bars or, in chief 3 bezants. On f. 1v, ca. 1500, "Robert Bulkeley." On f. 3, pressmarks in the hand of John Egerton (1622-86), 2nd Earl of Bridgewater: "T/4," "L:CC:G.8," and "L:CC:H:15./1."

Statutes dating from the reign of Edward III to the reign of Edward IV : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-49; ff. 49v-50v blank. Index to statues, Accusacions to Wurstede. French. ff. 51-54, 56-147v, 148v-252v, 256-389v. Statuta nova. Latin; French. From 1 Edward III to 8 Edward IV. ff. 54-55. Incipit statutum eodem anno primo [About Statutes of Edward I]. Incipit: Come nadgairs en temps le Roy E. fitz le Roy Henry plusours graundz de poeple de Roialme d'engleterre surmeissent a hugh le dispenser le pier plusours maufaitz par enquestz countre l'estat de de [sic] dit Roy. Explicit: qe tous ceux trespases felonies enemytes disobeisantz et rebellions soient quitez et par cest accord assent et estatuit a toutz iours. Rubric: Incipit statutum eodem anno primo. French. f. 55r-v. Ad huc de anno primo Letter, Edward III. Incipit: Le Roy as tous as queux cestez lettres viendrent salutz. Sachez que come la bone memorie Sir E. iadis Roy d'engleterre nostre aiel iadis enst assignee ses foialx et lez purailez en ces forests affaire auxi bien de cea Trent come de la. Explicit: En ter de quel chose nous avons fait faire nous lettres overtez. Teste nous meismez et cetera. Rubric: Ad huc de anno primo. French. See Calendar of Patent Rolls...Edward III, A.D. 1327-30 (London 1891) p. 39, membr. 15, for 13 March, 1 Edward III. ff. 55v-56. Incipit statutum de anno secundo Regis Edwardi tercii Revocacio brevium de audiendo et terminando. Incipit: Accorde est par nostre seigneur le Roy et son conseill a cest parlement de North. que tous les oiers et terminers grauntez contre fourme de statut. Explicit: n'est pas mys en estatut einz est bailee al chauncerie per bille. Rubric: Incipit statutum de anno secundo Regis Edwardi tercii. French. This text also in HM 906, f. 125r-v, HM 930, f. 12 and HM 19920, f. 165. ff. 147v-148v. [Levying of tax]. Incipit: Al honur de dieu et pur l'onur et bien de nostre seignur le Roy et pur bien comune et en defense du Roialme D'engleterre lez seignurs et les comunes de mesme le roialme esteant en ceste present parlement ont grauntez a nostre dit seignur le Roy une disme et di. xv a lever dez leiez gentz. Explicit: a vostre pouer sauvant au Roy sa prerogatif et liberte de sa coronne. French. ff. 253-256. Incipiunt statuta apud Westmonasterium edita eodem anno secundo [About Statute of Westminster]. Incipit: Henricus dei gratia Rex anglie et frauncie et dominus hibernie vic. Warwic. et leicestr. qui nunc est vel qui pro tempore fuerit salutem cum in statuto et in parleamento domini regis nuper regis anglie progenitoris nostri anno regni sui quarto tento edito inter cetera contineatur quod pro eo quod populus multum gravatus extitit de eo quod blada fenum bestie et alia genera victualium et bonorum. Explicit: dicte ordinacionis in predicto parliamento nostro ut promittitur edito. Teste me ipso apud Westmonasterium xxo die februarii anno regni nostri iio. Rubric: Incipiunt statuta apud Westmonasterium edita eodem anno secundo. Latin.

mssEL 9 H 10

Statutes : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-6v: [Magna Carta with rubric, "Incipiunt provisiones de Ronnemede scilicet carta Regis Iohannis," 17 John] f. 7r-v: [Expositio vocabulorum; list of 34 Old English legal terms and their French meanings]. Rubric: Exposiciones verborum antiquorum anglicorum. Incipit: Munthbreche, Trepas vers seignur; Burgbreche, Quite de forfeture de Citee depescer ... Explicit: Danegeld, Estre quit de doner ou ayder al tribut ke les Roys de Engleterre soleient doner a Danays e al Roy de Danemarche. ff. 8-23v, 24v-35v, 37-87v: [Statuta vetera] ff. 23v-24v: [Chapters of the Regard]: Rubric: Capitula foreste. Incipit: Videnda sunt assarta facta in foresta post principium secundi anni prime Coronationis domini Henrici Regis Tercii ... Explicit: vel aliquod ingenium aliud ad malefaciendum domino Regi de feris suis. f. 36-36v: [Chapters on Frankpledge, added in 15th c.]: Incipit: Hec sunt capitula que inqueri debent a capitalis franci plegii in singulis locis Anglie ubi homines sunt in decena scilicet bis per annum in festo sancti Michaelis et Pasche. Et de hoc etiam primo iuratus iurare quod verum dicet de capitalis que ab eo exiguntur ex parte domini Regis et quod pro nullo dimittet quando verum dicet. Si omnes libere tenentes [?] summoniti fuerint. Explicit: Si aliqua via vel legalis Semita sit obstructa vel consternata vel levata contra libertatem domini et quis est ille qui hoc fecit. [f. 36v blank].

mssHM 25782

Statutes : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-7v. [Index to statutes from Counterple de voucher to Christien court]. French. Alphabetical subject index to statutes from Counterple de voucher to Christien [for the letter X] court, citing earlier statutes not copied in this volume, from Magna Carta on; text begins defectively and is misbound, with the 2 center bifolia in exchanged order. ff. 8-10, 10v-12, 12v-195v; f. 196r-v blank. [Statuta nova]. Latin; French. f. 10r-v. [La patent de perambulacion fait de bou des forestes = Perambulation of forests]. Incipit: Le Roy a touz as queux cestes lettres viendront salutz. Sachez que come la bone memorie seignur Edward iadys Roy D'engleterre nostre aiel iadys ent assigne ces foialx a le puraillez en ces forestes. Explicit: a Westm. le xiiie iour de march l'an du nostre regne primer. Rubric: La patent de perambulacion fait de bou des forestes. French. See Calendar of Patent Rolls. . .Edward III, A.D. 1327-1330 (London 1891) p. 39, membr. 15. f. 12. [Iste particulus erat Norhamptoun editus eodem Anno Revocacio brevium de audiendo et terminando]. Incipit: Accorde est par le Roy et soun Counseille a cest parlement de Norhampton que toutz les oiers et terminers grauntez countre fourme de l'estatut fait en temps le Roy E. aiel le Roy que ore est. Explicit: n'est pas mys en estatut einz est baille de la Chauncelrie par bille. Rubric: Iste particulus erat Norhamptoun editus eodem Anno. French. This text also in HM 906, f. 125r-v, HM 19920, f. 165 and EL 9 H 10, ff. 55v-56.

mssHM 930

Bracton's De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae and several leaves of Statutes : [manuscript]

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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].

mssHM 31911

Statutes and other legal writings : [manuscript]

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ff. 6-15v, 16-89v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. On ff. 1-5v, preliminary matter. ff. 15v-16. Sententia lata super cartas. Incipit: En le noun del pier del fyz e del seynt espiryt amen. Cum nostre seignur le Roi al honur de deu e de seynt eglise e al comun profist de sun Reaum a touz lours les choses desus escrytes, Nous Roberd Erceveske de Canterbyry et primas de tut Engletere amovescoms un foyz deus foyz e troys foyz puys que la brefte del temps plus loynge demure. Explicit: e de touz les sacramentes de seynt eglise enseveroms fiat fiat amen. Rubric: Incipit sentencia lata super cartas. French. ff. 89v-100. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres sive circa plures tenentes pro indiviso. Explicit: et sic procedere debent alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Iudicium Essoniorum. Rubric: Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 116-42. ff. 100-107. Modus componendi brevia. Incipit: Cum sit necessarium conquerentibus in Curia domini Regis ut sibi in suis casibus congruum exibeatur remedium. Explicit: Licet antecessor conquerentis de pastura illa fuerit disseysitus. Explicit modus componendi Brevia. Rubric: Modus componendi Brevia. Latin. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 143-59, here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 107-113v. Summa de bastardia. Incipit: Nota quod si bastardus se clamando legitimum heredem. Explicit: quamvis uxor infantis obierit dum fuerit in custodia. Nota si un hom claym par meyme la descent par bref de possessioun l'autre mette encuntre ly q'il est bastard qe unkes sun pier esposa sa mere l'enqueste deyt estre prys en la curt le Roi. Explicit Bastardia. Rubric: Sequitur Summa de Bastardia. Latin. See Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, 1 and n. 3. ff. 113v-125v; ff. 125v-127v blank. Hengham Parva. Incipit: Notandum quod quinque sunt essonia. Prima de ultra mare, Secundum de terra sancta. Explicit: Quia nichil tam naturale est quam unumquisque dissolvi eo genere quo est ligatum. Explicit parvum hyngham. Rubric: Sequitur parvum hyngham. Latin. On ff. 125v-126, added material. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 51-71; for the passage that begins"Homagium est iuris vinculum" see G. E. Woodbine, ed., Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, trans. and with notes by S. E. Thorne (Harvard University Press and the Selden Society 1968-77) 2:228. ff. 128-195v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right, dated 20 Edward [I], 1291/92, with names of persons by initial only.

Statutes : [manuscript]

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ff 1-66, 66v-83, 84, 85-125v, 126-158v, 159v-160v. [Statuta vetera] Latin; French. f. 66r-v. De antiquo dominico corone. Incipit: Licet in antiquo dominico corone non currat aliud breve nisi parvum breve de Recto clausum. Explicit: nisi forte ius habeat in aliqua dote secundum consuetudinem manerii. Rubric: Incipit tractatus de antiquo dominico corone. Latin. A. J. Horwood, ed., Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the first, years XX and XXI. RS 31 pt. 16 (London 1866) pp. xviii-xix , here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. f. 83r-v. Placita corone. Incipit: In principio sciendum est quod omnia attachiamenta et placita Corone debent atthachiari [sic] per Coronatorem. Explicit: eiusdem ville inventoris Iusticis Itinerantibus. A. [?] et W. [?] et cetera. Rubric: Incipiunt placita corone. Latin. Note on coroners' duties concerning crown pleas to be taken before advent of justices, followed by 3 examples of crown pleas (abjuration of realm, accusation of rape, death by misadventure) occuring at "C. in Norfolk.". ff. 83v-84. Modus dirationis exceptiones. Incipit: Notandum est quod quatuor modis dicitur exceptio, scilicet exceptio dilatoria et exceptio peremptoria. Explicit: non valet ad aliam resortire responcionem. Explicit quot modis dicitur exceptio. Rubric: Incipit quot modis dicitur excepcio. Latin. ff. 84v-85. Exceptiones generales ad brevia. Incipit: Si nomen petentis vel eius cognomen non concordant brevi suo, si sit excommunicatus. Explicit: set si se absentaverit non amittet nisi breve. Expliciunt exceptiones generales ad brevia. Rubric: Incipiunt excepciones generales ad brevia. Latin. f. 125r-v. Revocacio brevium de audiendo et terminando. Incipit: Acorde est par nostre seignour le Roi et son conseil au parlement de Norhampton que touz les oyers et terminers grantez encontre forme de statutes fait en temps le Roi Edward ael le Roi qe orest. Explicit: ne est pas mys en estatut einz est baille en la Chauncellerie par bille et cetera et explicit. Rubric: Revocacio brevium de audiendo et terminando. French. This text also in HM 930, f. 12, HM 19920, f. 165 and EL 9 H 10, ff. 55v-56. ff. 158v-159v. [Writ]. French. Writ directed to Geoffrey Scrope, empowering him to receive the oaths of Lambert of Threekingham, John of Cambridge, John of Redenhall, John Randolf and Thomas of Louth for the opening of the eyre of Northamptonshire (6 November 1329), followed by the oaths for justices and for clerks, in French; see D. W. Sutherland, ed., The Eyre of Northamptonshire, 3-4 Edward III, A.D. 1329-1330. Selden Society 97 (London 1983) xlii-xlix, for brief biographies of these 6 justices. ff. 161v-163v. [Moot cases]. French. Added, s. XV: Five moot cases, in French, concerning wardship and land tenure, with the names of Alice Attedale, John de F., Margery Russell and Sybil Russell, followed by a note on the number of knights, of churches, etc. in England, signed "quod Pynchebek ." On f. 164, ownership note and note concerning exchequer distraints; f. 164v, blank.

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