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Ralph de Hengham, Robert Grosseteste, Walter of Henley — c. 1320–1330; English

MS. Douce 98

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Title

Ralph de Hengham, Robert Grosseteste, Walter of Henley — c. 1320–1330; English

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 98

Place of origin

English

Date

c. 1320–1330

Language

Anglo-Norman

Latin

Contents

Statutes of England (vetera statuta) and tracts
1. (fol. 7) Magna Carta
2. (fol. 9v) Carta de foresta.
3. (fol. 11v) Sentencia lata super cartas.
4. (fol. 12) Confirmacio cartarum praedictarum.
5. (fol. 13) Confirmacio regis Edwardi apud Westmonasterium.
6. (fol. 14) Statutum novum de finibus levatis et levandis.
7. (fol. 14) Modus levandi exitus de scaccario.
8. (fol. 14v) Statutum novum ad gaolam deliberandam.
9. (fol. 14b) De inquisicionibus et recognicionibus capiendis tempore vacacionis.
10. (fol. 14b v) Incipit: Si akun forester iure
11. (fol. 15v) Modus faciendi extenta manerii.
12. (fol. 16v) Provisiones de Mertona.
13. (fol. 18v) Statuta de Mareberge.
14. (fol. 23) Provisiones Gloucestrie.
15. (fol. 26v) Prima statuta Westmonasterii.
16. (fol. 36) Secunda statuta Westmonasterii.
17. (fol. 54v) Tercium statutum Westmonasterii.
18. (fol. 55) Statutum contra rcgiam prohibicionem allocandam.
19. (fol. 55) Statutum contra regiam prohibicionem, quod laici impetrant.
20. (fol. 55v) Statutum de religiosis.
21. (fol. 56) Statuta milicie.
22. (fol. 56v) Statutum de libertate clamanda quo warranto.
23. (fol. 58) Statutum de presentibus vocatis ad warrantum.
24. (fol. 58v) Novum quo warranto.
25. (fol. 58v) Statuta de bigamis.
26. (fol. 59v) Statutum de justicia assignata.
27. (fol. 60) Statutum de recognitionibus juratis et assisis.
28. (fol. 60v) Statutum de conspiratoribus.
29. (fol. 61) Statuta de scaccario.
30. (fol. 62) Districtiones de scaccario.
31. (fol. 62v) Statutum de vasti facto tempore alieno.
32. (fol. 63) Statutum de gavletle.
33. (fol. 63v) Statuta de mercatoribus, edita apud Acton Burnel.
34. (fol. 65) Addicio super statutum de Acton Burnel.
35. (fol. 67) Statuta Wyntoniensia.
36. (fol. 69) Statuta de moneta.
37. (fol. 70) Statuta Exestrie.
38. (fol. 72v) Dictum de Kenilworthe.
Fols. 75-82 are an added quire.
39. (fol. 75) Statutum editum apud Lincolniam.
40. (fol. 75v) Statutum de conjunctim feoffatis.
41. (fol. 76v) Statutum admissionis juris defendatorum.
42. (fol. 77) Novi articuli.
43. (fol. 80v) Statutum Lincolniense de vicecomitibus faciendis.
44. (fol. 81) Statutum Eborum.
45. ( fol. 83) Ralph de Hengham Magnum Hengham.
46. (fol. 97) Ralph de Hengham Parvum Hengham.
47. (fol. 104) Excepciones contra brevia.
48. (fol. 107) Modus faciendi homagium.
49. (fol. 107) Assisa panis, quae observanda est in Anglia.
50. (fol. 107v) Lucrum pistoris.
51. (fol. 107v) Assisa cervisie.
52. (fol. 107v) Judicium pillorie.
53. (fol. 108) Exposicio quorundam vocabulorum.
54. (fol. 108v) Incipit: Per discretionem totius populi Anglie
55. (fol. 108v) De ponderibus.
56. (fol. 109v) Sacramentum regis in coronacione.
57. (fol. 110) Summa, quae vocatur, Fet asaver.
58. (fol. 124) Summa, quae vocatur, Cadit assisa.
59. (fol. 129v) Judicium essoniorum.
60. (fol. 134b) Incipit: La nature des assoignes freit bon asauer
61. (fol. 134b v) Modus calumpniandi essonia.
62. (fol. 135) Modus componendi brevia.
63. (fol. 138v) Diffinicio brevis de recto
64. (fol. 140) Summa de tenuris diversorum tenementorum.
65. (fol. 141) Diversa dampna in duplo et triplo.
66. (fol. 143) Incipit: Detenue de naame pur fere destreces pertent al la coroune
67. (fol. 148v) Incipit: Issi comencent les vels et les novels
68. (fol. 154) Incipit: Adeprimes ausitost que les corouners eyent mandement
69. (fol. 155) Incipit: Licet in antiquo
70. (fol. 155v) Statutum de anno bissextili.
71. (fol. 156) Visus franciplegii.
72. (fol. 156v) Prerogativa domini regis.
73. (fol. 158) Leges villae Norhampton.
74. (fol. 160) Consideraciones Norhampton per xxiiij. jurates.
75. (fol. 164) Casus placitorum
76. (fol. 172) Articuli excartoris[sic].
77. (fol. 173) Summa bastardie.
78. (fol. 177v) Curia baronis rymee
79. (fol. 181) Dies communes in Banco.
80. (fol. 181v) Dies communes in placito dotis.
2. (fol. 182) Robert Grosseteste Rules for the household of the Countess of Lincoln
3. (fol. 187v) Walter of Henley Husbandry
4. (fol. 194v) List of English towns
5. (fol. 196) Register of writs
6. (fol. 261) Britton

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

397 fols.

Decoration

Borders.

Historiated initial.

Good penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 582, pl. LVIII)

Binding

18th(?)-century binding with title 'Lex Anglicana perantiqua' on spine.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1834

Provenance

Francis Douce, 1757–1834

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Title

Volume comprising Statutes of England, with other latin and french writings

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 98

Summary

Comprises:

(fol. 7) Statutes of England, in French and Latin, beginning with the re-issue of Magna Charta in A.D. 1241 (wanting the first leaf) and extending to about A.D. 1320: with some general law treatises, and 'Leges ville Norhamptoñ' (fol. 158, cf. 160): a full list is in the 1840 catalogue, cf. fol. vv

(fol. 182) 'Sci comencent les Reules qe le bon eueske de Nichole [i.e. Lincoln] seynt Robert Groseteste fist alla Contesse de Nichole': printed in the Royal Hist Soc.'s edition of 'Explicit Dictamen Hosbonderie' (1890), p. 122

(fol. 187v) 'Cest le dite de Hosbonderye qe ... fist ... sire Wauter de Henle', in French: at end, 'Explicit Dictamen Hosbonderie'

(fol. 194v) Names of over a hundred English towns with their chief produce or characteristic, in French: beg. 'Baronnie de Loundres': examples are 'Escole de Oxenford', 'Escarlet de Nichole', 'Anguyles de Cantebrugge': followed by a list of counties grouped according to dioceses

(fol. 196) A Registrum Brevium, a collection of legal forms, in Latin

(fol. 261). 'Summa que dicitur Brito', a law treatise in French, wanting the last leaf of the text and one or two leaves of the list of contents. This book has been ascribed to John le Breton, bp. of Hereford, d. 1275, and is certainly based on Henry Bracton's treatise and composed in the latter part of the 13th cent.

Date

written in about A.D. 1320-1330

Language

French

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with illuminated borders, capitals

Physical extent

397 Leaves

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