Royal MS 11 A VIII

STATUTES (to end of Edw. 1), charters of liberties, and legal treatises. Formularies of writs and pleadings and a statute of Edw. III are later additions. In Latin, except where otherwise stated. A rough table of con. tents has been inserted on 1. 3 and a list of chapterheadings for artt. 1 and 3-8 is at ff. 3 b-4 b. Contents:-

i. 'Magna Carta': inspeximus, [25 or 28] Edw. I [1297 or 1300], but without the confirmation clauses, &c., at the end. Statutes of the Realm, i (Charters), p. 33. f. 5.

2. 'Carta de Foresta': inspeximus, [28] Edw. I [i3oo]. Ib. p. 42. f. 9.

3. 'Provisiones de Merton.', 20 Hen. III [23 Jan. 1236]. Stat Realm, i (Statutes), p. 1. Clauses viii, ix are gmitted, as noted in the margin. f. 11 b.

4. 'Statuta Marleberg.': statute of Marlborough, 52 Hen. III, '1248' (sic, for 18 Nov. 1267). Ib. p. 19. f. 13b, 5. 'Statuta Westmon[asterii] primi', 3 Edw. I [1275]. lb. p. 26. French. f. 19 b.

6. 'Statuta Gloucestrie', [6 Edw. I, 1278], in French; with the abridged form of preamble and explanations in Latin, dated Sunday after S. Peter ad Vincula, 6 Edw. I [7 Aug. 1278]. f. 31.

7. 'Statutum Westmon[asteriense] secundum', 13 Edw. I [after Easter, 1285], in Latin, except clauses xxxiv (36) and xlix (50), which are in French (cf. 9 A. VII, art. 15). Stat. Realm, i, p. 71. f. 35.

8. 'Statutum Westmon[asteriense] tercium', 'Quia Emptores', 18 Edw. I [8 July, 1290]. Ib. i, p. 106. f. 55 b.

9. 'Statutum de religiosis': the statute De viris religiosis, 7 Edw. I. Ib. p. 51. f. 56 b.

10. 'Statutum Quia Fines', 27 Edw. I, dated at Westm. 2 Apr. [1299], being the latter half of Statutum de finibus levatis (cf. 9 A. VII, art. 30, 10 A. V, art. 38). Ib. p. 126. f. 57.

11. 'Statutum de attornatis recipiendis et finibus', dat. at Carlisle 'in parliamento', 35 Edw. I [1306-1307]: the Statutum de finibus et attornatis. Ib. p. 215. f. 58 b.

12. 'Modus faciendi homagium et fidem', n. d. Ib. p. 227. French. f. 59.

13. 'Statutum Wyntonie', 13 Edw. I, here dated Wyncestre, 8 Oct. [1285]. Ib. p. 96. Fronch. f. 59 b.

14. 'Statuta Exonie', 14 Edw. I, 28 Dec. [1285] in French, with the 'articuli' given separately at the end and the introductory sentence omitted (cf. also the abridged form, 9 A. VII, art. 27). Ib. p. 210. f. 61 b.

15. 'Statuta de scaccario', followed by 'Districtiones scaccarii', n. d. Ib. p. 197. French. f. 65.

16. 'Statutum Circumspecte agatis', here separated from art. 17, to which it is often attached, and ending at 'porrigatur'(seebelow). f. 68.

17. 'Regia prohibicio' (cf. 9 A. II, art. 14, 9 A. VIII, artt. 41, 42, 10 A. V, art. 11). Ib. p. 101. Beg. 'Sub qua forma laici impetrent'; ends 'licet re ia prohibicio porrigatur', with date 'Parisius anno xiv' [Edw. I, 1285- 1286]. f. 68 b.

18. 'Statutum ne quis ponatur in assisis' : the Statu. tum de illis qui debent poni in iuratis et assisis [22 Edw. I, 1293]. Ib. p. 113. f. 69.

19. 'Statutum de iusticiariis assignatis', also called Rageman [4 Edw. I]. Ib. p. 44. French. f. 69 b.

20. 'Statutum de religiosis apud Carliolum editum', 35 Edw. I, dat. at the parliament of Carlisle [20 Jan. 1307]. Ib. p. 150. f. 70 b.

21. 'Statutum de terris amortuandis', 27 Edw. I, dat. Westm. 1 Apr. [1299]: the Ordinatio de libertatibus perquirendis. Ib. p. 131. French. f. 72 b.

22. 'Modus calumpniandi essonia', n.d. Ib. p. 217. f. 73.

23. 'Statutum de militibus', n. d.: the Statutum de respectu militum habendo. Ib. p. 229. f. 73 b.

24. 'Statutum de bigamis', 4 Edw. I, after Michaelmas [1276]. Ib. p. 42. The names of the bishops, &c., are omitted. f. 74.

25. 'Statutum de uocatis ad warantum' : the Statutum de praesentibus vocatis ad warantum [20 Edw. I, 1291-1292]. Ib. p. 108. f. 75.

26. 'Articuli apud Westmonasterium per consilium editi', 28 Edw. I [1300]: the Articuli super cartas. Ib. p. 136. Imperfect at end. French. f. 75.

27. Tabular arrangement of various legal points. Beg. 'Eschete poet estre-Pour bastardie'. French. An insertion on a blank page. f. 77 b.

28. 'Statutum de prerogatiua regis', n. d. Ib. p. 226. f. 78.

29. 'Visus franci plegii', n.d.: heads of inquiry, differing both from another Latin series in 9 A. VII, art.

53, and from the French of Stat. Realm, i, p. 246, 9 A. II, art. 27. Beg. 'Inquirendum est si omnes ; ends'nomen habebit ad rectum'. f. 79 b.

30. 'Communes dies in banco', n. d. Ib. p. 208. f. 80 b.

31. 'Dies communes in placito dotis', n. d. Ib. p. 208. f. 80 b.

32. 'De coniunctim feoffatis' (so title) : really Statutum de magnis assisis et duellis, n. d. Ib. p. 218. French. f. 81.

33. 'Statutum de defensione iuris admissi' [20 Edw. I, 1291-1292]. Ib. p. 110. f. 81 b.

34. 'Exposiciones uocabulorum', as in 9 A. II, art. 34, with the addition of two entries, Lestage and Stallage. f. 82. The remaining articles are in a later 14th cent. hand.

35. 'Statuta edita apud Westm. in crastino S. Michaelis', 5 Edw. III [1331]. Stat. Realm, i, p. 265. Imperfect at end. French. f. 84.

36. Registrum Brevium, Latin text with notes in French, preceded by a table of the headings, originally 144 in number, from 'Breve de recto patens' to 'Breve de dote recuperata vivente viro'. Three others have been added, viz. 'De consultatione de debito, De de. ceptione, De forma donacionis en le reuertir in speciali casu', and there are also additions made by footnote. The date may perhaps be inferred from a precept made out to Thomas [de Brotherton], Earl of Norfolk, as Marshal of England [1312-1337]. f. 87.

37. Narrationes (formulac used in pleading) in French, preceded by table of eighty-six headings (the 86th, De raptu femine, is not now included). Begins with 'Counte en vn brief de dreit'; ends with 'Beste adirré'. This is an carly edition of the standard collection afterwards printed by Pynson, 1515, 1516, and Tottell, 1561, under the title Novae narrationes (cf. also Harley MS. 947). One formula contains the name of Alexander [de' Bicknor}, Archbishop of Dublin (1317-1349). f. 158 b. Two fly-leaves at the beginning are from a 13th cent. theological MS. On f. 83 b is the distich 'Cum fueris Rome Romano viuito more; / Cum fueris alibi viuito more loci, and other proverbs are scribbled on f. 83. Vellum; ff. 206. 8 in. x 5 in. Early and middle XIV cent. Gatherings (beg. f. 5), i, ii¹², iii, iv¹⁰, v-vii⁸, viii¹¹, ix⁵, x-xiv¹², xv¹⁰, xvi-xixlll. See. fol. 'mariti sui'. Initials not inserted. The earlier hand copies rather carelessly. Belonged (f. 158) to Rich. Grotemore 'per ipsum obtentus anno dom. mcccclxxvi',thisentry being written on an crased nbte of another owner, who'hunc librum vendidit eidem Ricardo [Grotemore?] pro quodam librocnonicarum. Another erased entry (f. 3) contains the name Wodhall. Not identified in the old catalogues.