Ecclesiastical Courts under Edward I in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward I of England

Ecclesiastical Courts under Edward I and Medieval Law

Ecclesiastical Courts under Edward I and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Adams, Norma, and Charles Donahue, ed. Select Cases From the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Province of Canterbury, C.1200 – 1301. The Selden Society (SS), 95 for 1978 & 1979. London: Selden Society, 1981.

Abstract: A selection of records of the church courts in England belonging to the dean and chapter of Canterbury. Part A contains the oldest records, dating from the pontificate of Hubert Walter (d.1205). Parts B, C & D contain records from the Ecclesiastical Suit Rolls, principally records of litigation sede vacante in 1270-73 and 1292-94, some with parallel translation of the Latin, some with full Latin texts with English summaries.

Clark, George T., ed. Cartae Et Alia Munimenta Quae Ad Dominium De Glamorgancia Pertinent, 447-1721. 6 Vols . Talygarn: W. Lewis, 1910.

Abstract: Text in Latin with notes and introduction in English. Includes charters, pleas, inquisitions post mortem, etc.

Clark, John W., and Frederic W. Maitland, eds. Liber Memorandorum Ecclesiae De Bernewelle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907.

Abstract: Text in Latin. Covers the period 1240-1295. A record of the St. Giles and St. Andrew’s Priory, Barnwell, England, it was originally composed in 1295-1296. It includes about twenty-four cases, transcripts of entries made upon judicial rolls, with an introduction by F. W. Maitland, explaining the cases.

Eagle, Francis, and Edward Younge, eds. A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws, Relating to Tithes. 4 Vols. London: S. Sweet, 1826.

Abstract: Compiled from the year books, reports and other authentic sources. Covers the years 1204-1825

Helmholz, R. H., ed. Select Cases on Defamation to 1600. The Selden Society (SS), 101 for 1985. London: Selden Society, 1985.

Abstract: Select cases chosen “to illustrate the development of private remedies for defamation, and to provide the basis for a comparison between the Canon law and the English practice in both the spiritual and temporal courts.” Part I contains 30 cases from the ecclesiastical courts between ca.1290 and 1593. Part II contains 30 cases from various local courts, mostly of manors or boroughs, between 1245-1539. Parts III and IV cover sixteenth century cases.

Walsingham, Thomas, Matthew Paris, and Henry T. Riley , eds. Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, a Thoma Walsingham, Regnante Ricardo Secundo, Ejusdem Ecclesiae Praecentore, Compilata. 3 Vols. Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores (Rolls Series), 28. London: Longmans, Green, 1867-1969.

Abstract: Text in Latin. Chronicles of St. Albans Monastery. Vol. 1, AD 793-1290; Vol. 2, AD 1290-1349; Vol. 3, AD 1349-1411. Reprinted by Kraus, 1965.

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

• Medieval Lawyer (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Marriage (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Usury (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Medieval Roman Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Assumpsit (in this legal Encyclopedia)