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| The History of England, and of England's Records | 9 |
| Statutory definition of the Public Records | 9 |
| None earlier than the Norman Conquest | 10 |
| The Conqueror and his Court | 10 |
| Officers of State sitting in the Court: the Chancellor and the Treasurer | 10 |
| Court and Council at Gloucester in 1085 | 11 |
| First design of the Public Records : writs to be returned | 11 |
| Domesday Book the great ancestor of the Public Records | 11 |
| Indignation and astonishment of the English at the method pursued | 12 |
| Annual account of the revenue to be sent to the King or his officer: the Great Rolls | 12 |
| Profits from judicial proceedings | 13 |
| The Missi, or Justices in Eyre, sent through the country | 13 |
| The Treasurer at the head of one of the Commissions | 14 |
| The old County Courts overshadowed by the Courts of Eyre | 14 |
| Records of the Courts of the Justices in Eyre | 15 |
| Records of the Principalis Curia Regis coram Justiciis | 15 |
| Certain functions delegated by the King to this Court as to the Eyres | 15 |
| The Bench, or King's Court, at Westminster | 16 |
| The central authority : the counties have to come to the King's fixed Court | 16 |
| Only one Bench at first : its jurisdiction not then restricted to common pleas | 17 |
