Calendars under Edward I

Calendars under Edward I in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward I of England

Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases

Calendars under Edward I and Medieval Law

Calendars under Edward I and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Great Britain. Public Record Office. List and Index of Court Rolls: Preserved in the Public Record Office. Great Britain. Public Record Office. Lists and indexes, 6. New York: Kraus Reprint , 1963.

List of Plea Rolls of Various Courts, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Public Record Office: List and indexes, 4. London: Holbrook, for His/Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (now part of the Office of Public Sector Information), 1910.

Abstract: Includes rolls of the old curia regis, king’s bench, common pleas, exchequer, eyres, marshal sea, exchequer of the Jews, palatinates of Durham, Lancaster and Chester, courts of Wales, coroners’ inquests.

List of Various Common-Law? Records. Great Britain. Public Record Office. Lists and indexes: Supplementary series, 1. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1970.

Abstract: Contents: Plea rolls; Essoin rolls; Rolls and writs of the court Coram Rege, Henry III.; Common pleas essoin rolls, Edward I-George? III.;Gaol delivery rolls and files.

Plea Rolls (E.13) for the Period 1216-1307 (Microfilm). London: Public Record Office (now the National Archives) , 1970.

Abstract: Text in Latin. List of plea rolls of various courts preserved in the PRO.

Illingworth, William, ed. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviatio : Temporibus Regum Ric. I, Johann, Henr. III, Edw. I, Edw. II . London: Eyre and Strahan, 1811.

Abstract: Calendars and indexes, compiled early in the 17th century, to pleas in the king’s bench, 1 Edward I-10 Henry V, and common pleas, 1-18 Edward I, with the placita exercitus, 24 Edward I, and other earlier pleas mainly from the curia regis rolls, although there are a few assize rolls, and some rolls of Nisi Prius trials in London. Contains the text of the 1194 Wiltshire eyre, the earliest roll of a common pleas eyre.

Rigg, James M., and Hilary Jenkinson, eds. Calendar of the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews Preserved in the Public Record Office. 4 Vols. Jewish Historical Society Publication ed. London: Macmillan, 1905-1929.

Abstract: The calendar gives a full abstract in English of such rolls as are preserved. Vol. 1, Henry III, 1218-1272; Vol. 2, Edward I, 1273-1275; Vol. 3, Edward I, 1275-1277; Vol. 4, contains text and English translation. These records have separate ‘pleas’ sections, but they are essentially memoranda rolls.

Bibliographies of English Law History

  • Maxwell, William H. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1955-
  • Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
  • Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.

Resources

See Also

  • Economic Torts (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Quasi-Contract (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Ecclesiastical Courts (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Medieval Justice (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Medieval Justice (in this legal Encyclopedia)

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