Royal MS 14 C II

ROGER OF HOVEDEN, Chronica: vol. i, containing the history of England from 732, where Bede ends, to 1180. Beg. 'In principio huius operis, gencalogiam'. The first leaf is supplied by a 16th cent. hand. The second volume, from 1181 to 1201, is in the Bodleian Library (Laud MS. 582). See Stubbs, Chronica Rogeri de Hoveden, Rolls Ser., 1868, i, p. lxxiv. Stubbs regards this MS. as the original text of Hoveden's work, and suggests that the marginal notes which occur in various places (ff. 51, 73, 87, 122 b) are in Hoveden's own hand From 1176 onwards a fresh column or a fresh page is commenced for each year. At the end of 1180 follows without a break (a) 'Liber de legibus Anglie sicut teneri debent in regno Anglie', beg. 'Hic intimatur quid Willelmus rex' (Stubbs, ii, p. 215): the compilation known as Tripartita (cf 13 C. II, art. 2), here preceded by the sentence 'Eodem anno Henricus rex Anglie pater constituit Rannulfum de Glanuilla summum iusticiarium . . . cuius sapientia condite sunt leges subscripte quas Anglicanas uocamus'. f. 214 b;-(b) 'Descriptio genealogiae ducum Normannorum' (ib., p.239). f. 223 b; -(c, after a blank space of 1¹/₂ columns) 'Diuersorum nominum interpretationes', a glossary of English law terms (ib., p. 242). f. 225;-(d, after a blank page and a half) 'Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie tempore regis Henrici secundi compositus, iusticie gubernacula tenente illustri uiro Rannulfo de Glanuilla iuris regni et antiquarum consuetudinum eo tempore peritissimo' (cf. Stubbs, i, p. lxxvi, ii, p. xlviii, printed by Tottel, circ. 1554, &c.). Beg. 'Regiam potestatem non solum armis'. f. 226;-(e) 'Assisa regis de forestis Anglie' (Stubbs, ii, p. 243). f. 274;-(f) 'Precepta de forestis' (ib., p. 245). f. 274 b;-(g) 'Assisa facta apud Clarendun' (ib., p. 248). f. 275. For an explanation of these insertions see Stubbs, i, p. lxxv, ii, p. xlviii. At the end (f. 277) is the first leaf of the chronicle for 1181, and a second leaf supplied by a 16th cent. hand (cf. f. 1); but this part of the text is repeated in Laud MS. 582.

Vellum; ff. i + 278. 1 ft. 1¹/₄ in. x 9¹/₂ in. Early XIII cent. (exc. ff. 1, 278). Gatherings of 8 1eaves (viii⁹, xvii¹⁰, xxi⁶, xxiii⁷), originally numbered at the end (see f. 263 b). Double columns of 34 lines. Sec. fol. leius corpore'. Coloured initials slightly flourished; on f. 88 is a coloured drawing of the standard used at the Battle of the Standard. Belonged to [John, Lord] Lumley (f. 1, name autogr.); on f. 51 b a note has been inserted relating to the ancestry of the Lumley family. Lumley cat. f. 143 (including the 'pars posterior', Laud MS. 582); cat. of 1666, f. 8 b; CMA. 8355, 8396.