Manorial Courts under Edward Iv in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward IV of England

Manorial Courts and Seignorial Courts

Manorial Courts under Edward IV and Medieval Law

Manorial Courts under Edward IV and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Bailey, Mark, ed. The English Manor, C. 1200-1500. Manchester Medieval Sources Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Abstract: Selected sources including records of manorial courts, translated and annotated by Mark Bailey.

Ballard, Adolphus, ed. Seven Somerton Court Rolls . Oxford Archaeological Society Transactions, 50. Banbury: W. Potts, 1906.

Abstract: Text in English. Six documents deal with the Court Leet and the Court Baron, the seventh deals with the Court of the Supervisor. Covers the years 1482-1573.

Bonfield, L., ed. Select Cases in Manorial Courts: Property Law and Family Law, 1250-1500. The Selden Society (SS), 114 for 1997. London: Selden Society, 1998.

Abstract: A selection of unusually detailed entries which illustrate the ways in which questions of property and family law were dealt with at the manorial level.

Carshalton Manor, England. Court Rolls of the Manor of Carshalton From the Reign of Edward the Third to That of Henry the Seventh. Surrey Record Society Publications, 2. London: Roworth, 1916.

Abstract: Text in English. Covers the years 1359-1506.

Chandler, Henry W., ed. and trans. Five Court Rolls of Great Cressingham, in the County of Norfolk . London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1885.

Abstract: Text in English. Covers the years 1328-1584.

Courthope, Elinor J., and Beryl E. R. Formoy, eds. Lathe Court Rolls and Views of Frankpledge in the Rape of Hastings, A.D. 1387 to 1474. Sussex Record Society Publications, 37. Lewes: The Society, 1934.

Abstract: Text in English.

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

• Assumpsit (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Marriage (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Status (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• List of Medieval Laws (in this legal Encyclopedia)