Indexes under Edward Ii

Indexes under Edward Ii in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward II of England

Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases

Indexes under Edward II and Medieval Law

Indexes under Edward II 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.

Caley, John, and J. Bayley, eds. Calendar of the Proceedings in Chancery in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode , 1832.

Abstract: Printed for the Record Commissioners, it includes some Chancery cases from as early as the reign of Henry III.

Thomas, Arthur H., ed. Calendar of Early Mayor’s Court Rolls … 1298-1307. Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls … 1323-1364. Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls … 1364-1381. Calendar of Select Pleas and Memoranda … 1381-1412. 4 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1924-1932.

Abstract: Contains many cases dealing with the law merchant.

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

  • Attainder (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Canonical Legislation (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Trespass (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Detinue (in this legal Encyclopedia)

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