Feet of Fines under John in United Kingdom

Feet of Fines and Eyres

This issue under the Ruling of John of England

Feet of Fines under John and Medieval Law

Feet of Fines under John and Legal History

Feet of Fines and Eyres

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Boyd, W. K., and W. O. Massingberd , eds. Lincolnshire Records. Abstracts of Final Concords, Temp. Richard I, John, and Henry III. Vol. I . London: Spottiswoode, 1896.

Abstract: Text in English. Transcribed and translated from records preserved at the PRO.

Churchill, Irene J., and Frank W. Jessup, eds. Calendar, Kent Feet of Fines, to the End of Henry III’s Reign. 5 Vols. Kent Archaeological Society Records, 15. Ashford: Headley Bros, 1939-1956.

Dodwell, Barbara, ed. Feet of Fines for the County of Norfolk for the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Richard I: 1198-1199 and for the First Four Years of the Reign of King John, 1199-1202. Publications of the Pipe Roll Society, n.s., 27. London: Pipe Roll Society, 1952.

Abstract: The first part completes the publication of all twelfth century feet of fines for the County of Norfolk remaining in official custody.

Farrer, William, ed. Final Concords of the County of Lancaster: From the Original Chirographs, or Feet of Fines Preserved in the Public Record Office, London. 4 Vols. Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Series, 39, 46, 50, 60. Edinburgh: Printed for the Record Society, 1899-1910.

Notes: Also available online at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=480Abstract: English translation from the Latin. Contents:

Pt. 1, 7 Richard I. to 35 Edward I, AD 1196-1307

Pt. 2, Edward II. and Edward III, AD 1307-1377

Pt. 3, John, Duke of Lancaster, to Henry VII, AD 1377-1509

Pt. 4, Henry VIII to Philip and Mary, AD 1510-1558

Foster, Charles W., ed. Final Concords of the County of Lincoln From the Feet of Fines Preserved in the Public Record Office, A.D. 1244-1272; With Additions From Various Sources, A.D. 1176-1250, Vol. II. 2 Vols. Lincoln Record Society Publications, 17. Horncastle: W.K. Morton, 1920.

Notes: Also available online at https://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=409Abstract: Text in English

Hardy, William J., and William Page, eds. A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex, Richard I to II and 12 Elizabeth. 2 Vols. London: Hardy and Page, 1892-1993.

Abstract: Contents: Vol. I, Richard I to Richard III; Vol II, 1 Henry VII to Michaelmas, 11 and 12 Elizabeth.

Hunter, Joseph, ed. Fines, Sive Pedes Finium: Sive Finales Concordiae in Curia Domini Regis: Ab Anno Septimo Regni Regis Ricardi I. Ad Annum Decimum Sextum Regis Johannis, A.D. 1195-A.D. 1214. 2 Vols. London: Printed by G. Eyre and A. Spottiswoode, 1835-1844.

Abstract: Text in Latin. Printed for the Great Britain. Record Commission. Arranged alphabetically by counties. vol. 1, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, and Cornwall; vol. 2, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, and Dorset.

Kirk, Richard E. G., and Ernest F. Kirk, eds . Feet of Fines for Essex V. Essex Archaeological Society Publications ed. Colchester: Essex Archaeological Society , 1899-.

Abstract: Contents: vol. 1 for 1899: (1182-1272); vol. 2 for 1928: (1272-1326); vol. 3 for 1949: (1327-1422); vol. 4 for 1964: (1423-1547)

Vol. 5 for 1991: (1547-1580); vol. 6 for 1993: (1581-1603)

Turner, George J., ed. A Calendar of the Feet of Fines Relating to the County of Huntingdon, Levied in the King’s Court From the 5th Year of Richard I to the End of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1194-1603 . Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 37. Cambridge: Deigthon , Bell and Co. 1913.

Walker, Margaret S. R., ed. Feet of Fines for the County of Lincoln for the Reign of King John, 1199-1216, Now First Printed From the Original in the Custody of the Right Hon. the Master of the Rolls. The Publications of the Pipe Roll Society, 67; n.s., 29. London: Pipe Roll Society, 1954.

Abstract: Text in Latin.

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.

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See Also

• Concilliar Courts (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Origins of the Common Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Religious Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Family Settlements (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Exchequer (in this legal Encyclopedia)