Egerton MS 2788

DOMESDAY-BOOK of the laws and usages of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, compiled in 19 Edw. I. [1290-91]. French. Printed (from Add. 25,012) in the Appendix to the Black Book of the Admiralty, ed. Sir T. Twiss, Rolls series, 1873, vol. ii. p. 16. Preceded and followed, as part of the same MS., by (a) Royal charter to the borough; 1 July, 12 Edw. [III., 1338]. f. 3;-

(b) Extracts from the Great Survey, sc. " in magno domesday de Seaccario domini Regis " (cf. Wodderspoon, Memorials of Ipswich, 1850, p. 50). f. 7 ;-(c) Mode of electing bailiffs and coroners, according to the charter of John (see Wodderspoon, p. 77). f. 9;-

(d) Inquisition of land held by the clergy about Ipswich; 2 John [1200]. f. 11 b;-(e) Names of burgesses made in 2 and 5 John [1200, 1203-4]. f. 12 b ;-(f ) " Assisa de pane vendito per pistores domini Regis." f. 49. On ff. 1-2 is inserted, in a hand of the end of the 14th cent., a copy of an Inquisition of the port of Ipswich, 3 Rich. II. [1379]; on f. 52 is a note of the value of a talent of gold, assessed on the occasion of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, incurring a fine of thirty talents in 1347 (see Blomefield, Hist. of Norfolk, vol. iii. p. 507), followed by a few verses in Latin, English, and French; and on f. 54 is a confirmation, by Richard II. or Henry IV., of Edward II.'s charter to Harwich, co. Essex. Vellum; ff. 55. xivth cent. Apparently written by or for Paul Le Ros or Le Roos, who was Town Clerk in temp. Edw. III. (see ff. 3, 14, and Davy's Suffolk, Collections, Add. 19,093, f. 1). With initials in red and blue. On f. 55 b is the date 18 March, 1731/2, with the names Edward Syer, John Marten, and R. Love. Small Folio.