Proclamation in United Kingdom

Anglo Saxon Proclamations

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Proclamation and Medieval Law

Proclamation and Legal History

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(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Earle, John, ed. Hand-Book to the Land Charters and Other Saxonic Documents. Oxford: Clarendon, 1888.

Notes: Also available online in The Making of Modern Law (subscription database)Abstract: 250 documents. The introduction deals with the language and structure of charters. Much attention is devoted to gesiths and laenland. Text in Latin with English notes. The Anglo-Saxon portions have a translation in a parallel column.

Edwards, Edward, ed. Liber Monasterii De Hyda; Comprising a Chronicle of the Affairs of England, From the Settlement of the Saxons to the Reign of King Cnut; and a Chartulary of the Abbey of Hyde, in Hampshire. A.D. 455-1023. Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores (Rolls Series), 45. London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866.

Abstract: Introduction and notes in English. Texts in Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Middle English. Translations provided for the Anglo-Saxon charters.

Edwards, Heather, ed. The Charters of the Early West Saxon Kingdom. BAR British series, 198. Oxford: B.A.R., 1988.

Gelling, Margaret, ed. The Early Charters of the Thames Valley . Studies in Early English History, 7. Leicester: Leicester University Press , 1979.

Harbin, Edward H. B., ed. Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset. Somerset Record Society Publications, 14. London: The Society, 1899.

Abstract: Contains Anglo Saxon charters.

Harmer, Florence E., ed. Anglo-Saxon Writs . 2nd ed. Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1989.

Abstract: Contains a general introduction, discussion and the texts of 120 Anglo-Saxon writs ranging in date from King Aethelred II to King Harold II. Printed in the original Old English with English translation, and with some Latin versions included. The new edition is a combination of two works: the original 1952 Anglo Saxon Writs, and an essay, “A Bromfield and Coventry Writ of King Edward the Confessor,” from The Anglo Saxons, edited by Peter Clemoes, (1959).

—, ed and trans. Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914.

Abstract: Anglo-Saxon texts of royal charters, grants and privileges with English translations.

Hart, Cyril R., ed. The Early Charters of Northern England and the North Midlands . Studies in Early English History, 6. Leicester: Leicester University Press , 1975.

Hearne, Thomas, ed. Hemingi Chartularium Ecclesiae Wigorniensis. Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1723.

Abstract: Text in Latin

Hearne, Thomas, Ernulf , Bishop of Rochester, and Leonard Hutton, ed. Textus Roffensis. Accedunt, Professionum Antiquorum Angliae Episcoporum Formulae, De Canonica Obedientia Archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus Praestanda. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1720.

Abstract: Text in Latin with parts in Anglo-Saxon. Created during the reign of , it is primarily a register or Henry I chartulary of Rochester Cathedral. However it also contains Laws of the Anglo-Saxon Kings, including the earliest written laws in any Germanic language, those of King Ethelbert of Kent (d. 616).

Hoare, Richard C., J. Ingram, Sharon Turner, Thomas D. Fosbroke, and Thomas Phillipps , eds. Registrum Wiltunense, Saxonicum Et Latinum, in Museo Britannico Asservatum, Ab Anno Regis Alfredi 892, Ad Annum Regis Eadwardi 1045. London: Nicholson, 1827.

Abstract: Text in Latin

Hooke, Della, ed. Warwickshire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds . Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 10. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999.

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.

Concept of Proclamation

The following is an old definition of Proclamation [1], a term which has several meanings:1. An announcement made by the ministerial officer of a court that some particular thing is about to be done officially by the court. As, tliat court is about to open or adjourn; that an accused person is about to be discharged; and, in Pennsylvania, that a sheriff’s deed is about to be acknowledged. See Crier

Alternative Meaning

In affairs of state, the king’s edict concerning the execution of the laws. A notice publicly given of anything whereof the king thinks fit to advise his subjects. Made under the great seal and published, so that the people may be apprised of its existence and do as it commands. A proclamation by the President relieving parties, who had been transacting business in ignorance of it, from penalties, may take effect when signed by the President and sealed with the seal of the United States, officially tested. Publication in newspapers may not be requisite. A proclamation is a crying aloud; making publicly known; official notice given the public. One may proclaim, as of old, by the sound of a trumpet, by voice, by print, or by posting. A proclamation may be published in the newspapers, or scattered by writing, or in any other demonstrative manner. Publicity is an important ingredient. It cannot be published by mere deposit in a place to which the public have no access. A proclamation by the President, reserving lands from sale; is his official public announcement of an order of that effect. No particular form of announcement is necessary. It is sufficient if it has such publicity as accomplishes the end to be attained. Such order sent out from the appropriate executive department in the regular course of business is the legal equivalent of the President’s own order to the same effect – the acts of the heads of departments, within the scope of their powers, being the. acts of the President. See War.

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Notes and References

1. Meaning of Proclamation provided by the Anderson Dictionary of Law (1889) (Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence; William C. Anderson; T. H. Flood and Company, Law Publishers, Chicago, United States)

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See Also

• Edict (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Attainder (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Nuisance (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Usury (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Ecclesiastical Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)