William Collections in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of William of England

Collections Which Cover Individual Periods or Reigns

William Collections and Medieval Law

William Collections and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Brown, R. Allen, ed. The Norman Conquest of England: Sources and Documents . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1995.

Stenton, Doris M. P. English Justice Between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter, 1066-1215. Memoires of the American Philosophical Society, 60. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1964.

Abstract: Contains an extensive appendix of illustrative material from various primary sources including records from the PRO. Latin with English translation.

Stubbs, William, and H. W. Carless Davis, eds. Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First. 9th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.

Notes: Also available online in The Making of Modern Law and HeinOnline (subscription databases)Abstract: Aims to include every constitutional document of importance for the period. Contents: Part II, Extracts illustrative of the early polity of the English (Anglo Saxon); Part III, Charters and Excerpts illustrative of the Norman period; Part IV, Charters and excerpts illustrative of the reign of Henry II, it includes the assizes of Henry II; Part V, Charters and excerpts illustrative of the reigns of Richard I and John; Part VI, Charters and excerpts illustrative of the reign of Henry III; Part VII, Charters illustrative of the reign of Edward I. Text in Latin with English notes. The Anglo-Saxon laws are quoted in the original language in the 9th edition, edited by H.W. Carless Davis.

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

• Status (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Marriage (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Usurpation (in this legal Encyclopedia)