the Sunday next after the feast of St. James the Apostle "tractatu & colloq'ium v'ituri no'r'mque co'siliu' impe'su'ri." But, in the margin, the word Parliament does not occur, as it is only noted, "Summonitio de veniendo ad tractandum cum rege." It is doubtful, the Report observes," whether this meeting was properly a Common Council of the Realm assembled in Parliament, or only a great Council;" but as, in subsequent writs the meeting is expressly styled a PARLIAMENT, as the Writs by which the Nobility were summoned are similar to former writs, marked in the margin as Summonses to Parliaments, and still more as a statute called the Statute of Stamford, appears in the authorised Collection of the Statutes of the Realm, it is presumed that that meeting was a regular Parliament. At this assembly a Letter was agreed to be sent to the Pope for remedy of the grievances and oppressions to which the kingdom was subject; and to this Letter, the King issued a Writ†, tested on the 6th of August, 3 Edw. II. 1309, fourteen days after that on which the Peers were ordered to meet at Stamford, commanding the Earls and Barons to affix their seals.

The cause of this notice being taken of the circumstance is the impression created in the Editor's mind, that this Letter, of which not even a copy appears to be extant in this country, is probably preserved among the records of the Holy See; in which case it would perhaps be worthy of inquiry, whether the seals of the Barons who were summoned by Writs tested on the 11th June were affixed to that document; and if so, whether that circumstance is not evidence of their having on that occasion sat in Parliament.

No notice of the Meeting at Stamford occurs on the Rolls of Parliament, nor are any Writs extant to the Commons; but notwithstanding these facts, it is submitted that the express designation of the assembly as a PARLIAMENT in the Writ just alluded to, as well as in another Writ cited in the Report from the Close Roll of the 3d Edw. II. m. 1 dorso, together with the circumstance of a Statute having been enacted by that assembly, would tend to establish that the meeting at Stamford in the 3d Edw. II. and in which the Letter alluded to is said to have been written, was a regular PARLIAMENT.

* 27 July, 1309, third Edw. II. + Fœdera. II. p. 84.

+ Vide note to p. 805.

INDEX

TO THE

PROOFS OF BARONS' SITTINGS, &c.

*The Names printed in Italics occur on the Rolls of Par-
liament before Writs of Summons are recorded (with the exception
of that of the 49 Hen. III.) to have been issued; and those in
the Roman type are only to be found in the Barons' Letter to the
Pope, anno 29 Edw. I. 1301.

* Vide a note to p. 805.

* Vide a note to p. 805.

FITZ-WARINE, 753, 754 bis. HERBERT, 756, 761

HARINGTON, 736, 738, 740, LUMLEY, 736, 737

* Vide a note to p. 805.

Neubaud, 715
NEVILL, 720, 722 ter. 723 bis.
724 ter. 725, 726 quater.
728, ter. 729, 731 ter. 732
sæpe. 733 quater. 734, 735
ter. 755

Nevill, 765

ORMOND, 759,760

quater. 723 ter. 724 bis.
725 bis. 726 ter. 727, 728
bis. 737
Percy, 763
Pinkney, 770
Pipard, 766
Pointz, 768
PoWYCK, 758

Powys, 736, 739 note, 741
bis. 754

POWYS, VIDE Cherleton
POYNINGS, 740, 741,742 qua-

ter. 743 quater. 744 bis.
746, 747, 748 bis. 749 bis,
750 bis.

RITHRE, 718

Rivers, 766

ROBSERT, 745 note, 748
Roche, 772

Roos, 720, 725, 727 bis. 728

bis. 736 bis. 737 bis. 738
bis. 739 ter. note, 740 bis.
741 ter. 746, 747, 751, 752
Roos, 764
RYVERS, 752

ST. AMAND, 727, 728, 736,
752, 753

St. Amand, 764
St. John, 716

St. John, 763

ST. MAUR, 736, 737, 740

ORMOUNT, COUNT DE, (note) Sandwico, 715

724

Ottonis, 715

Paganel, 767

Paganel, 770

Pecche, 774

SAY, 752, 754

SAY & SELE, 751

SCALES, 731, 736, 737, 738,

751, 753, 754, 755, 756

Scales, 768

Scardeburgh, 715

PERCY, 718*, 720, 721, 722 SCROPE, 725 ter. 727, 728,

* Vide a note to p. 805.