Henry Ii Charters in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Henry II of England

Calendars and Registers of Charters

Henry II Charters and Medieval Law

Henry II 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.

Holt, James C., and Richard Mortimer, eds. Acta of Henry II and Richard I : Hand-List of Documents Surviving in the Original in Repositories in the United Kingdom. List & Index Society Special Series, 21. Kew, Richmond: List & Index Society, 1986.

Vincent, Nicholas, ed. Acta of Henry II and Richard I. Part Two. List and Index Society Special Series, 27. Kew, Richmond: List and Index Society, 1996.

Abstract: A supplementary handlist of documents surviving in the original in repositories in the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Belgium, and the USA.

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

• Marriage (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Medieval Roman Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Institute of Historical Research (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• History Definition (in this legal Encyclopedia)