Royal MS 10 B VIII

YEAR-BOOKS and other collected pleas, tempp. Edw. I- Hen. IV. In French. Several compilations, partly chronological, partly by subjects, bound together, viz.:-

1. Assises of novel disseisin (ante 1300 to 18 Edw. II). Included at f. 26 b is a copy of the Statute of York, 12 Edw. II (see Stat. Realm, i, p. 177), and at f. 29b is a tabular arrangement of certain writs. f. 1.

2. (a) 'Placita Itineris London. coram Heruico de Staunton et Willelmo de Herle anno xiiii [Edw. II].' f. 30:-(b) Year-book of 1 Edw. II, much as in the MS. (now Add. 35094) from which Maynard printed. Extracts from Mich. term of 2 Edw. II follow, the text resembling rather Add. MS. 37658. f. 38. Artt. 1, 2 are in hands of the first half of the I4th cent.

3. Year-book of 13 Rich. II (Trin. and Mich. terms); cf. Add. MS. 5926, f. 91 b, but the order is different. Late 14th cent. f. 42. Artt. 4-6 seem to be in the same early 15th cent. hand.

4. Year-book of 8 Hen. IV. For othercopies see Harley MS. 5144, f. 69, Hargrave MS. i, f. 70. All three include at the end a long report of an assise at Ilchester, co. Som., between Edward [Langley] Duke of York, and others and Sir Hugh Lutterell, which is not in the :i562 or 1679 printed editions. f. 50.

5. Year-book of 11 Hen. IV, apparently not differing much from the printed text. f. 74.

6. Pleas arranged by subject, taken chiefly from the time of Edw. III and Hen. IV. Beg. 'Assise fuit porte vers Braas et autres'. f. 182. Art. 7 is in a hand of about the same date.

7. A similar collection, imperfect at the end. Beg. 'E. avowa saunz avowere sur nulli'. f. 222.

8. Forms of pleading, in Latin, under various heads, De compoto, De conuencione, Vastum, Debitum, &c.; late 14th cent., with additions temp. Hen. IV. f. 250. On f. 259 b are scnbbled three lines on a cure for toothache, 'per Iohannem Mortymer', but cf. Renzi, Collectio Salernitana, v, ll. 3194- 3196. Beg. 'Sic dentes sana, porrorum colligegrana'. Vellum; ff. 287. 113/4 in. x 8 in., 111/4 in. x 63/4 in. (art. 1) and 11 in. x 73/4 in. (art. 8). XIV and XV centt. Gatherings, art. 1, i-iii⁸; art. 2, i¹²; art. 3, i⁸; art. 4, i-iii⁸; art. 5, i-iii⁸, iv⁹, v-xii⁸, xiv4; art. 6, i-v⁸; art. 7, i, ii⁸, iii⁵, iv⁸ ; art. 8, i, ii¹⁰, iii^8, iv¹⁰.. longed to John Theyer (notes, ff. 6, 66). Possibly Theyer sale-cat. no. 290 or 312 Omitted in CMA.