CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
I. ALFRED AND THE DANES
I. The Historical Setting of the Problem
II. Introductions to the Sources
III. Questions and Suggestions for Study
IV. The Sources
1. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
2. Asser's Life of King Alfred
3. The Chronicle of Ethelwerd
4. Alfred and Guthrum's Peace
II. ORIGIN OF THE JURY
1. The Monastery of St. Vincent versus Certain Serfs of the Monastery. 854
2. Abbot of St. Augustine's Claim to a Ship
3. Title of the Domesday Inquest for Ely. 1086
4. Claim of Abbot of St. Augustine to Customs at Newington. 1094
5. Monks of St. Stephen versus the King's Tenants. 1122
6. Writ of the Earl of Essex in favor of the Canons of St. Martin
7. Constitutions of Clarendon. 1164
8. Assize of Clarendon. 1166
9. Assize of Northampton. 1176
10. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglicæ
11. Typical Civil Pleas before the Justices of the Bench and before the Justices in Eyre. 1200-1202
12. Typical Pleas of the Crown before the Justices Itinerant. 1201-1203
13. Typical Pleas of the Crown before the Justices Itinerant in Gloucestershire. 1221
III. SOME ANTECEDENTS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
1. Inquest of Sheriffs. 1170
2. Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis
3. Assize of Arms. 1181
4. Ordinance of the Saladin Tithe. 1188
5. Form of Proceeding on the Judicial Visitation. 1194
6. Summons of Juries to St. Albans. July 21, 1213
7. Summons to a Great Council. November 7, 1213
8. Magna Carta. June 15, 1215
9. Writ for Assembling the County Court before the Itinerant Justices. 1218
10. Writ for the Collection of a Carucage. 1220
11. Distraint of Knighthood. 1224
12. Writ Summoning Four Knights of the Shire. 1227
13. Writ Summoning Representatives of Seven Boroughs. 1235
14. Writ Summoning Two Knights of the Shire. 1254
15. Writ Summoning Three Knights of the Shire. 1261
16. Writ Summoning Four Knights of the Shire. 1264
17. Writs Relating to the Assembly of January, 1265
IV. AN ASPECT OF THE FOURTEENTH-CENTURY LABOR PROBLEM
1. Cartularium Monasterii de Ramseia: CCIX. 1252
2. Extent of the Manor of Borley. 1308
3. Typical Lists of Manorial Services
4. Chronicon Henrici Knighton. 1349
5. Royal Writ in Behalf of John de Paddebury. 1350
6. Ordinance of Laborers. 1349
7. Statute of Laborers. 1351
8. Writ Appointing Justices of Laborers. 1356
9. Proceedings before the Justices of Laborers. 1355; 1358
V. FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNDER ELIZABETH AND THE STUARTS
Part A. Elizabeth
Part B. The Stuarts
1. Commons Journals, Nos. 1, 6[1]
2. Calendars of State Papers, Spanish, No. 2
3. State Papers, Domestic, No. 3
4. D'Ewes, Journals, Nos. 4, 5, 7
8. Townshend's Historical Collections, Nos. 8, 9
1. Parliamentary History, No. 1
2. Parliamentary Debates in 1610, Nos. 2, 4
3. Commons Journals, Nos. 3, 12
5. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Nos. 5, 8
6. Nicholas, Proceedings and Debates, No. 6
7. Calendar of Stale Papers, Venetian, No. 7
9. Notes of the Parliament of 1626, No. 9
10. An Account of the Debate on June 5, 1628, No. 10, from
a. Grosvenor's Journal
b. Borlase Manuscript
c. Rushworth's Historical Collections
11. Cobbett's State Trials, No. 11
13. Lords Journals, No. 13
Reference to Bill of Rights in Appendix, No. 14
VI. THE ENGLISH PARISH AND THE NEW ENGLAND TOWN-MEETING
1. Lambard, Duties of Constables
2. Sheppard, Offices and Duties of Constables
3. Meriton, A Guide for Constables
4. The Annals of St. Helen's Bishopsgate, London
5. Nichols, Illustrations
A. Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Margaret's Westminster
B. Churchwardens' Accounts of Wigtoft
6. Boston Town Records
7. Records of Boston Selectmen
8. Winthrop's Journal
9. The Records of the Town of Cambridge
VII. BEGINNING OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH AMERICA
1. The Writings of Benjamin Franklin
2. Life of Shelburne with Extracts from his Papers and Correspondence
3. Letters from the Landsdowne MSS
4. Memorials and Correspondence of Fox
5. Autobiography of the Duke of Grafton
VIII. THE PARLIAMENT ACT OF 1911
1. Seligman, The English Budget Proposals, No. 1
2. The Annual Register, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23
3. Hansard, No. 6
4. The London Times, Nos. 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 21
5. Law Reports, The Public General Statutes, 1911, No. 24
Appendix
Index