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  ff. 1-214v; ff. 215-217v blank. [Statuta vetera]. Latin; French. See below for 17 other texts that occupy sections of this codex. On ff. 209-210v, list of contents of the volume (for ff. 1-140v), followed by chapter lists of the Magna Carta, of the provisions of Merton, of the statutes of Marlborough, Westminster I, Gloucester and Westminster II. f. 8r-v. Sententia lata super cartas. Incipit: En le noun del pere e del fiz e seynt espirit. Cum nostre seignur le Roi al honur de dieu e del seynt eglise e a commun profit de tut le Reaume est grante pur luy. . .Nous Roberd Ercevesqe de Caunterbury e Primat de tut Engleterre amovescoms un foiz deus foiz e trois foiz puisse qe le brefte du tems plus longe delaie. Explicit: e de touz les sacrementz de seynt Eglise desceveroms. Fiat fiat amen. Rubric: Incipit sentencia super cartas lata. French. ff. 51v-52, 144v-145, 149-200v, 208v, 211v-212. [Materials relating to Scarborough]. Latin. For the register of writs on ff. 149-200v, please see entry for that text. ff. 73-84. Fet asaver. Incipit: Fet asaver a comencement de chesqun ple q est plede en la court le Roy. . .[f. 83v:] s'il n'ad renable enchesoun pur quay il n'y ad fet venir. Rex vicecomiti salutem. Precipimus tibi sicut alias tibi Precepimus quod corpus Rogeri Glere de Linne. Explicit: oportebit de corpore suo vel de predicto debito respondere. Et habeas ibi hoc breve. Explicit summa Fet asaver. French. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 53-115, followed straight on by a writ to arrest Roger Glere de Linne in execution of a recognizance made at Shrewsbury before Thomas Callou and Robert de Bockesers, clerk of the recognizances, to pay a debt to Richard, son of Richard de Bergh on 24 August 1299. ff. 84-104. Hengham Magna. Incipit: Licet ordo placitandi in curia domini Regis per leges et consuetudines Regni. Explicit: si docatur quod is de cuius seisina petit actor non fuisse in seysina rei petite tempore Ricardi Regis Avunculi Regis Henrici patris regis Edwardi sic peremptorie deciditur actio actoris. Explicit Summa Magnum Heyngham. Rubric: Incipit Magnum Heyngham. Latin. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 1-50. ff. 104-109v. Summa bastardie. Incipit: Nota quod si Bastardus se clamando legitimum heredem. Explicit: quamvis uxor infantis obierit dum fuerit in custodia. Nota si un home cleyme par meme le descent en bref de possession e l'autre met encountre Ly q'il est bastard qe unkes son pere esposa sa mere deit estre deit estre [sic] pris en la Curt le Roy. Explicit summa Bastardye. Rubric: Incipit summa Bastardye. Latin; French. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, p. 1 and n. 3. ff. 109v-118v. Hengham Parva. Incipit: Quinque sunt essonia primum de ultra mare secundum de terra sancta. . .si compertus fuisset tenens. Homagium est iuris vinculum quo quis astringitur ad warantizandum. Explicit: et si uterque consenserit potest homagium dissolvi quia nichil tam naturaliter et cetera. Explicit Summa Parvum Heyngham. Rubric: Incipit Parvum Heyngham. Latin. Dunham, Radulphi de Hengham Summae, 51-71; for the passage "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. 118v-123v. Modus componendi brevia. Incipit: Cum sit necessarium conquerentibus in Curia domini Regis ut in suis casibus congruum exhibeatur remedium. Explicit: licet antecessor conquerentibus de pastura illa fuerit disseisitus. Explicit summa cum sit Necessarium. Rubric: Incipit Summa Cum Sit Necessarium. Latin. Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, under the title "Modus componendi brevia," pp. 143-59, ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 123v-126. De corona. Incipit: Eodem modo quo quis feloniam facere potest interficiendo alium idem feloniam facere potest interficiendo se ipsum. Rubric: Incipit tractatus de Corona. Latin. nec sunt per plegios dimittendi nisi sit ex speciali precepto domini Regis et tunc fiat de hiis quod ser__?___itis fit de aliis et cetera. Explicit tractatus Corone. ff. 126v-128. Articuli corone. Incipit: Dictum est ut supra quod nemo potest habere Curiam suam de probatore et latrone cognoscente videamus ergo que placita pertinent ad Curiam et que ad Comitatum. Explicit: quod femine imponunt viro alicui de quo se dicit violenter oppressam et contra pacem domini Regis. Explicit Officium Corone. Rubric: Incipiunt articuli corone. Latin. ff. 129-130. De antiquo dominico corone. Incipit: Licet in antiquo dominico Corone non currat aliquod breve nisi parvum breve de Recto clausum. Explicit: propter quod si ego fuissem assignatus Iusticiarius ego secure procedere ad assisam sicut conueti [sic for "consuevi"] quid alii faciunt ignoro et cetera. Rubric: Incipiunt statuta de antiquo dominico Corone. Latin. A. J. Horwood, ed., Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the first, years XX and XXI. RS 39 pt. 16 (London 1866) xviii-xix , here ending incomplete with respect to the printed text. ff. 133-140v; f. 141r-v blank. Cadit assisa. Incipit: Edwardus dei gratia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et dux Aquitanie vicecomitibus London. salutem. Si Willelmus de Kyrkeby. . ., Cadit assisa si petatur tenementum vel servicium per assisam. Explicit: sic inde [cancelled] probatur __?___ recte ut de Itinere W[illelmi] de R[alegha] in Comitatu [catchword:] Cantie//. Rubric: Incipit quedam summa cadit assisa. Latin. See Woodbine, Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, p. 1 and n. 4 giving references to Bracton; the text is preceded by an assize of mort d'ancestor by William of Kyrkby in the time of Edward I. ff. 143v-144. [Medical astrology]. Incipit: Mens Ianuarius vinum ieiunus bibe. Latin. Other texts in this section include: Magister philosophorum computavit omnes malos dies tocius anni periculosos et sunt xxxta duos dies. . .[list of the dies nefasti or aegyptiaci in each month for beginning a new project, bloodletting or taking medicine]; Si quis in septimo die mensis marcii de dextro brachio sanguine minuerit. . .[bloodletting on special days to avoid loss of eyesight and fevers; special days in which to be born so as to never fall ill]. f. 145. [Claim to liberties]. Incipit: Iste libertates clamant habere ab antiquo. Burgenses clamant rendere dare et legare terras suas in lecto mortali. Explicit: Item habent placita que pertinent ad portum maris. Latin. ff. 145v-146. [Against abuses]. Incipit: De Articulis qui domini Regis scutagium contingunt. De magnatibus et aliis venientibus hospitaturis ad domos Religiosorum per gubernatorem earundem. Explicit: secundum quod in eisdem statutis continetur. Latin. Index of articles, largely against abuses by royal and franchisal officers. ff. 146v-148. Incipiunt Cronice Anglie [i.e. Chronology of England]. Incipit: Scire cupiens quis subscriptas interrogaciones de cronicis ponat prius annum dominicum in presenciarum ultimum. . .; Sepes trina canes et equus hominesque subaddas/ Cervos et corvos aquilas in maria cete. . .; Anni ab origine mundi __?___ septuaginta interpretes sunt. Anni ab incarnacione domini xxvus die marcii. Explicit: Qui vus die februarii in Angliam rediens xx die mensis eiusdem apud Westmonasterium est coronatus. Rubric: Incipiunt Cronice Anglie. Latin. Computistic material, 5 verses to determine the number of years between Adam and Christ, and a brief chronology from the birth of Christ to the coronation of Edward II in 1308; material on ff. 201-202 possibly intended as a continuation of this text. On f. 148, medical recipe added by a different hand. On ff. 148-149, writ in French to the sheriff of Yorkshire. ff. 149-200v. [Register of writs]. Latin. Register of writs, beginning with a writ of right brought by William of Scarborough against H. de Rostoun; text ends defectively in a writ to the justices of the forest beyond the Trent concerning the lawing of dogs. ff. 201-202. [Chronology of England]. Incipit: Anno domini Mo CCCo xi quinto kalendas Octobris ordinaciones cum exilio petri de gaveston cui Rex Edwardus filius Regis Edwardi contulit comitatum cornubie. Explicit: interfecti sunt scotti xxx Milia per Regem Edwardum tercium post conquestum. Latin. Chronology of the years 1311-33, apparently intended as a continuation of the material on ff. 146v-148. Flyleaf, f. iii: f. 1r-v. [Gradual]. Latin. For the mass of the third Sunday in Lent and the following Monday. Layout: 10 lines of text and music. Music: English square notation on 4-line red staves. Constitutes flyleaf, f. iii, in the parent volume. Assigned Date: s. XIII.

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  ff. 1-81v: [Statuta vetera]. ff. 40-42: [Notes of law and cases]: Rubric: Incipit Statutum Suthamptoun. Incipit: In Octabis sancti Michaelis anno quinquagesimo secundo coram N. de litt. precipe priori de monte forti quod iuste et cetera reddat I. et A. uxori eius unum molendinum et 1v acres terre cum pertinentibus in N. in quas idem prior non habet ingressum ... Explicit: et non liberum tenementum est id quod in villenagio tenetur sive ad terminum vite perpetuo sibi et heredibus suis possidendum. f. 48: [De iure calumnie pro Rege]: Rubric: Statutum de iure calumpn. pro Rege. Incipit: De requisitionibus coram Iusticiis quibuscumque capiendis et in quibus dominus Rex est pars qualitercumque. Explicit: Ita [sic] ordinacio et ordinacio de foresta facte fuerunt in parliamento apud Westmonasterium die dominica proxima post festum sancti michaelis Anno regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis henrici tricesimo quinto. f. 48v: [De utlagaria]: Rubric: Incipit Statutum de utlagaria. Incipit: Omnibus ad quos presentes litere pervenerint salutem. Nos legem habemus de tempore ... Explicit: Et ideo dicimus quod Aldemarus Wyntoun in regno nostro Anglie introduci non debet quia de morte hominis et roberiis appellatus fuit et non comparavit et ideo propter suam contumaciam utlagatus est. f. 54: [Officium vicecomitis]: Rubric: Officium vicecomitis. Incipit: Ceux sont les articles touchants nostre coroune et nostre pees enfreint pleablez par viscont autre foitz. Explicit: Et ceux de xii ans que ne sount venuz a hundrede toutz les articles que sont contenuz en vewe de frankplegge et cetera. f. 55: [Sacramentum coronatoris]: Rubric: Sacramentum coronatoris. Incipit: Ceo oiez sire viconte que R. de B. Coroner nostre seignur le Roy deinz le Wapentake de G. loialment et sanz lower demander. Explicit: et quanque a mon office de Coroner appent sanz rien prendre si dieu m'aide et cetera. ff. 62v-64: [De quo warranto]: Rubric: Incipiunt Notabilia de quo Warranto. Incipit: Utrum domino Regi competat accio ad recuperandum dominicum corone sue a corona sua separatum per breve ... Explicit: se possent tueri si calumpniati fuerint per quam se tuerentur huiusmodi magnates vel eorum heredes et cetera. f. 64: [De antiquo dominico corone]: Rubric: Statutum de antiquo dominico corone. Incipit: Licet in antiquo dominico corone non currat aliquod breve nisi parvum breve de recto clausum. Explicit: propter quod si ego fuissem assignatus Iusticiarius ego secure procederem in assisa sicut pluries consuevi quid alii faciunt ignoro. f. 66r-v: [De tonsura Monete]: Rubric: Capitula de tonsura Monete. Incipit: De tonsura monete tam de Iudeis quam de christianis de hiis qui tradiderunt denaros suos retonsore pro habendo lucro tonsure ... Explicit: cum multis de populo ad hoc teneretur licet expresse non consentirent. f. 77: [De villenagio]: Rubric: De villenagio. Incipit: Vous vous [sic] savoir q'en deux maners sont vileins, les uns sont celes que sount del auncien demesne le Roi. Explicit: il demoura vilein a celui a qi il dist q'il fuist avant sokeman et cetera. ff. 81v-82: [Decretum Walteri Grey Archiepiscopi Eboracensis Decree of Walter Grey, archbp. of York]: Rubric: Decretum Walteri Grey Archiepiscopi Eboracensis. Incipit: Decretum domini Walteri Grey Eboracensis Archiepiscopi Anglie primatis. . .et memoriam omnium futurorum. Cum plerumque inter Rectores seu vicarios in provincia Eboracensi constitutos. Explicit: secundum hanc ordinacionem sive constitucionem alias in hac parte probatam. f. 82-92: [Exposicio vocabulorum Dictionary of legal terms]: Rubric: Exposicio vocabulorum. Incipit: Sek hoc est secta de omnibus in Curia nostra secundum consuetudinem regni ... Sak ... Tolhost ... Ton ... Infangenthef ... Explicit: Ferdwite quietus esse de mora in hostagio. . [ff. 83-92 ruled, but blank] ff. 92v-98v: [Calendrical material; on f. 92v, table of golden numbers and leap years, 1413-1500; on ff. 93-98v, Graded calendar with several saints marked as "non sarum."]. ff. 99-258v: [Statuta nova]. ff. 254v-258v blank. ff. 101-102v: [Statutes of Edward I]: Rubric: Item aliud Statutum editum Anno primo. Incipit: Come nadgairs en temps le Roi E. fitz le Roi henri plusours graundz du Roialme D'engleterre surmeissent a hugh le despenser le fitz et hugh le despenser le piere plusours malveistes. Explicit: desobeissances et rebellions soient quitz par ceste acorde assent et estatut a touz iours. ff. 141v-142: [Kingston upon Hull as staple town]: Incipit: Et puis apres fuist ordene par nostre dit seignur le Roi prelates et autres gentz du conseil nostre dit seignur le Roi q'une autre estaple seroit tenuz a kyngestoun sur hull. Explicit: a Westm. le lundy prochein apres la feste de seint marc l'evangelist l'an du regne nostre dit seignur le Roi d'engleterre vint et oeptisme et de France quinzisme et come assent de tout le parlement horspris certeins articles contenuz en un estatut fait en le parlement avaundit. f. 142: [Custom to pay on movement of merchandise]: Incipit: Fait a remembrer q'ia soit ce q'il fuist ordene a conseil tenuz a Westm. le lundy prochein apres le fest de seint matheu l'apostoil darrein passe par les grauntz et autres illeoques este antz que leins et plumbe seroient poisez. Explicit: et illeoques la custume paie les dites leins pealx quirs et plumbe a mesmes les Custumers. f. 165: [Revocacio brevium de audiendo et terminando]: Incipit: Accorde est par nostre seignur et son conseil a ce parlement de Northamptoun que touz les oiers et terminers grauntez contre la fourme d'estatut fait en temps le Roi E. Aiel le Roi qor est. Explicit: mes ce est baille en Chauncellerie par bille. French.

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  ff. 1-38v. Statuta vetera. Latin; French. ff. 38v-44v. Fet asaver. Incipit: Fet asaver que au comencement de chescun play que est plede en la Court le rey. Explicit: Mes si la terre luy fust donee en franc mariage donc covendra que ele seit//. Rubric: Incipit Summa Fet asaver. French. G. E. Woodbine, ed., Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale University Press 1910) 53-96, here ending defectively. ff. 45-50. Hengham Parva. Incipit: //Et iacet solummodo in omni breve de recto ante apparenciam. Explicit: Si compertus fuit ille qui primo cassavit breve verus tenens. Explicit Summa de quinque essoniis. Latin. W. H. Dunham, ed., Radulphi de Hengham Summae (Cambridge 1932) 54-71, the "Summa Parva" here beginning defectively. ff. 50-54. Judicium essoniorum. Incipit: Primum capitulum de difficultate essoniorum circa viros et mulieres. Explicit: et sic procedere debent ad alia placita iuxta eorum discrecionem. Explicit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Rubric: Incipit Summa Iudicium essoniorum. Latin. Woodbine, 116-42. ff. 54-59; f. 59v blank. Cadit assisa. Incipit: Rex vicecomiti salutem. Si Adam Bonde fecerit te securum de clamore suo prosequendo. . ., Cadit assisa si petatur tenementum per assisam. Explicit: si petens ius petendi remanebit possessio suo loco ut predictum est. Rubric: Incipit Summa Cadit assisa. Latin. See Woodbine, p. 1 and n. 4 giving references to Bracton; the text is preceded by an assize of mort d'ancestor by Adam Bonde in the time of Edward I. ff. 60-83v. Latin. Beginning with a writ of right to the sheriffs of London (no names given) and ending defectively in a note concerning disseisin of husband and wife.

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  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.

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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.

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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].

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