Edward I Charters

Edward I Charters in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward I of England

Calendars and Registers of Charters

Edward I Charters and Medieval Law

Edward I Charters and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Ayloffe, Joseph, and Philip Morant , eds. Calendars of the Ancient Charters and of the Welch and Scotish Rolls, Now Remaining in the Tower of London . London: B. White, 1774.

Notes: First edition, 1772 available online in ECCO (subscription database)Abstract: First published anonymously, 1772. Begun by the Rev. Philip Morant. Full title: Calendars of the ancient charters … also calendars of all the treaties of peace entered into by the kings of England with those of Scotland; and of sundry letters and public instruments relating to that kingdom, now in the Chapter-house at Westminster. Contains the earliest records of the Court of Chancery, extending from soon after the Norman Conquest to the time of Henry VIII. The records consist of appropriations of churches, endowments of vicarages, feoffments, etc.

Ballard, Adolphus James Tait, eds. British Borough Charters, 1216-1307. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923.

Abstract: An analytic digest of charters granted to burgesses of boroughs in the British Isles, and of a large selection of writs of similar import. Chief source for the documents listed is the Charter Rolls in the PRO, using the printed calendar and indexes. Text in Latin with English translation.

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

  • Canon Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Medieval Church Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Marriage (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Pleading (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Medieval Roman Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)

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