Add MS 35179

LEGAL COLLECTIONS, etc., in Latin: a compilation (perhaps made in Cheshire, v. art. 11, etc.), of which a large part (artt. 10, 1, 6, 2-5) is closely akin to Harley MS. 746. Some account of the MS. relations of these articles will be found in the works of F. Liebermann cited. Artt. 4, 5 form part of the collection called "Tripartita," but in that place are joined with the other edition of art. 1 . i. "Incipit lex gloriosi Anglorum regis Ædwardi": the Leges Edwardi Confessoris in their earlier form, beg. "Post quartum annum adquisicionis" (v. Liebermann, Ueber die Leges E. C., Halle, 1896). f 4.

2. "Incipit lex que Angli[c]e Danelage est uocata, latine uero lex Dacorum est interpretata," etc.: the Instituta Cnuti aliorumque Regum Anglorum, beg. "Hec est institucio quam Chnutus rex" (v. Liebermann in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., N. S. vii. p. 77, and Gesetze der Angel-Sachsen, i. p. 59). f. 9.

3. De potentia Knuti regis, beg. "Chnutus rex cum xx annis regnasset": a short note including the well-known anecdote. f. 16.

4. "Decreta Willelmi Regis," beg. "Hic intimatur quid Willelmus": the Articuli Willelmi or "Hic Intimatur" (Liebermann's III. W1., v. his Quadripartitus, p. 145). f. 16 b.

5. "Descripcio Genealogie Ducum Normannorum a Rollone," beg. Primus Normannie dux Rollo qui et Robertus," etc., down to John (printed by Liebermann, Ueber die Leges E. C., p. 134). f. 17.

6. "De longitudine et latitudine Anglie," beg. "Anglia habet in longitudine dccc miliaria," etc.: on the civil, ecclesiastical and legal divisions of England (v. Liebermann, Ueber die Leges Angliae Londoniis Collectae, p. 7, note). f. 19.

7. "Incipit Practica Equorum" (the colophon gives "Cyru[r]gia de Curis Equorum," and a later hand inserts the title "Liber de Surgere dez Chiualxz"): a tract on veterinary medicine. Includes mention of a vice "retrogradacio quod in uulgari Gallico restiuacio, in Lombardo reop dicitur," and references to "magister E" and "B de Marsilia." Beg. "Forma uirtus color in equis de iure notantur," and ends "fleobotomabis eum de vena colli et erit liberatus." f. 20 b.

8. "Incipiunt breuia de iustic[ia] et de Iudiciis": a Registrum Brevium made out in the name of Hen. III. and with dates extending to 39 Hen. III. [1253-4]. Begins with writs "De atthachiacione," "De ponendo per vadia," "Propter libertatem non owittere," etc., and ends with "De die warantizato." f. 31.

9. "Hic incipiunt casus et iudicia": select pleas, 36-39 Hen. III. (one at the end is 40 Hen. III.). The references in this, as in the preceding article, are to the county and first word of the enrolment, e.g. "Suff. Robertus," "Oxon. Job. fil. Thome." f. 36.

10. "Incipit tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie tempore Regis H[enrici] secundi compositus iusticie gubernacula tenente illustrissimo Ranulfo de Glanuilla," etc., beg. (after the table of capitula) "Regiam potestatem non solum armis": the treatise known by the name of Glanville (Chief Justiciar, 1180- 1190). Contains at the end three paragraphs, beg. "Predicta uero placita siue alia qualiter uel quo iure" (purporting to be by the same author as the rest of the work), which are not in the ordinary MSS. or in Rayner's edition. f. 39 b.

11. Another Registrum Brevium, with forms of date 39 Hen. III. Begins with "Breue de recto," followed by a regula "si terra partibilis sit," and ends with "Breue de vasto communi." Followed, in the same hand (f. 83 b), by a letter from Henry III. to Alan la Zuche, Justice of Chester, 12 July, a^o 39 [1255]; in another hand, by a writ against the Bishop of Coventry, n.d.; and, in a third, by three writs of Chester Justices, of which two are dated in 1 Edw. I. [1273].. f. 74.

12. Rules for drawing up [a manorial steward's] accounts, beg. "Primo reddatur compotus de toto anno [sc. annuo] redditu tenencium." f. 84.

13. "Prouisio de Mertonia": the Provisions of Merton, 20 Hen. III. [23 Jan. 1236], v. Statutes of the Realm (1810). i. Stat. p. 1. The last ch. (on bastardy) is omitted. Ends "regis qui nunc est in Britthaniam, et vigorem habeat ista prouisio ut supra." f. 84 b.

14. "Capitula de placitis tempore justiciariorum R. et Symonis et Gilberti et Johannis apud Hereford itinerantibtus anno domini m^occ^ox^ol octauo" [the Justices mentioned are perhaps Roger de Thurkilby, Simon de Wauton, Gilbert de Preston and John de Cobbeham]: the Capitula Itineris, corresponding very nearly to the first 47 articles of those printed without date in Stat. of the Realm, i. p. 233. f. 85. On the fly-leaves are:-(a) Jingle in a 16th cent. hand, Henricus Octavus look from us the land that our forefathers gaue us and left us nought saue a bare faith to saue us, etc." f. 3. In early 14th cent. hands, (b) "De xv sgnis xv dierum precedentium diem iudici": the common extract, beg. "Ieronimus in animalibus [sc. annalibus] Hebreorum" (cf. Burney MS. 357, f. 2 b). f. 87 b;-

(c) Charm against mice in a granary, in Latin. f. 87 b;-(d) Assisa Panis et Ceruisiae (v. Slat. Realm, i. p. 199), with "probationes" of weights and measures and [45 Hen. 111. 1260-1] of the assise of bread, for the county of Chester, with names of those who composed the courts. f. 88 b;-(e) Several writs of Prince Edward, as Earl of Chester, and of the king, 43 Hen. III. [1259]. f. 89 b;-

(f) "Ces sunt les reis qui ont regne en Engletere pus le tens Arthur" to Hen. II. f. 90;-(g) "Assisa tempore Willielmi Maynard et Nicholai le Ferur": an assise of bread at Nottingham, in part dated c. 33 Hen. III. [1248-9]. f. 90 b;-(h) Letter of the King to the barons, etc., of co. Chester, requesting conduct of his victuals to Wales, without prejudice to their liberties, 6 Aug.

30 Hen. III. [1246]. f. 90 b;-(i) Arabic numerals. f. 90 b. Vellum (except ff. 1*, 1); ff. 91. About A.D. 1300. Initials in red and blue. Belonged (f. 4) to Edward Umfreville (author of Lex Coronatoria, 1761). At f. 63 is the name (17th cent. ?) of Benjamin Gardiner. Bought of Triphook, the bookseller, in 1815 by Richard Heber (Heber sale-cat. 1836, lot 117). Then belonged to Sir Thowas Phillipps (MS. 8078, sale-cat. 1895 lot 131), and to H. B. Weaver (sale-cat. 1898, lot 110). Rough calf binding.

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