Liberate Rolls in United Kingdom

The Rolls Series, which while not an exclusively legal source, contains much legal material (Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Writs directing payments to be made out of the treasury of the Exchequer.

Bond, Edward A., and Charles G. Young, eds. Extracts From the Liberate Rolls Relative to Loans Supplied by Italian Merchants to the Kings of England, in the 13th and 14th Centuries: With an Introductory Memoir. Goldsmiths’-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 31513. London: n.p., 1840.

Notes: Also available online in Modern Economy (subscription database)Abstract: From the Archaeologia: or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity, Vol. 28.

Hardy, Thomas D., ed. Rotuli De Liberate Ac De Misis Et Praestitis, Regnante Johanne. London: Spottiswoode, 1844.

Abstract: Text in Latin. Royal writs out of Chancery, directing payments to be made from the treasury of the Exchequer. Contains liberate rolls, 2, 3, 5 John, the misae roll of 11 John, and the praestita roll of 12 John.

Richardson, Henry G., ed. The Memoranda Roll for the Michaelmas Term of the First Year of the Reign of King John (1199-1200) Together With Fragments of the Originalia Roll of the Seventh Year of King Richard I (1195-6), the Liberate Roll of the Second Year of King John (1200-1) and the Norman Roll of the Fifth Year of King John (1203) . Publications of the Pipe Roll Society, 59; n.s., 21. London: J.W. Ruddock, 1943.

Abstract: Text in Latin.

Liberate Rolls and Medieval Law

Liberate Rolls and Legal History

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

• Court of Chancery and Equity (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Medieval Roman Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Institute of Historical Research (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Punishment (in this legal Encyclopedia)