2996 a. PUISEUX, LÉON. Siège et prise de Rouen par les Anglais, 1418-19.

Caen, 1867.

2997. †RONCIÈRE, CHARLES DE.

Quatrième guerre navale entre

la France et l'Angleterre, 1335-41. Paris, 1898. pp. 59.

2998. ROUND, J. H. La bataille de Hastings. Revue Historique, lxv. 61-77. Paris, 1897.

A review of No. 3000.

2999.

The battle of Hastings. Sussex Archæol. Soc.,

Collections, xlii. 54-63. Lewes, 1899.

A survey of the recent literature of the subject, with a bibliography. See also Round's Feudal England (No. 2827) and his Commune of London (No. 1018).

3000. SPATZ, WILHELM. Die Schlacht von Hastings. Berlin, 1896. pp. 69.

Scholarly. See No. 2998.

3001. WHITE, ROBERT. History of the battle of Bannockburn, 1314. Edinburgh, 1871.

3002.

etc., 1857.

History of the battle of Otterburn, 1388. London,

$ 69. TENURES OF LAND AND CLASSES OF

SOCIETY.

a. Law of Inheritance, Nos. 3003-8.

b. The Nobility, Feudalism, and Knighthood, Nos. 3009-45.

c. Villeins, Nos. 3046-54.

d. Jews, Nos. 3055-72.

See § 22, general works on tenures and classes; § 24, local history; § 44, vill and manor. The principal sources are dealt with in §§ 50, 55, 57.

a. LAW OF INHERITANCE.

On the rights of women as regards inheritance, see Nos. 1544 1546; and on primogeniture, Pollock and Maitland, English Law, bk. ii. ch. vi.

3003. BRUNNER, HEINRICH. Das anglonormannische Erbfolgesystem. Leipsic, 1869. pp. 88.

Valuable.

3004. CECIL, EVELYN. Primogeniture: a short history of its development in various countries. London, 1895.

Ch. ii. deals briefly with its history in England.

3005. CORNER, G. R. On the custom of borough English [in Suffolk]. Suffolk Institute of Archeology, Proceedings, ii. 229–41. Lowestoft, 1859.

3006.

On the custom of borough English in Sussex. Sussex Archæol. Soc., Collections, vi. 164-89. London, 1853. — Also printed separately, London, 1853.

On borough English, see also C. J. Elton, Origins of English History (No. 1247), ch. viii.

3007. GOMME, G. L. Widowhood in manorial law. Archeol. Review, ii. 184-97. London, 1888.

3008. KENNY, C. S., and LAURENCE, P. M. Two essays on the law of primogeniture. [History of the law of primogeniture in England, by C. S. Kenny, pp. 71. The law and custom of primogeniture, by P. M. Laurence, pp. 161.] Cambridge, etc., 1878.

b. THE NOBILITY, FEUDALISM, AND KNIGHTHOOD.

The most elaborate work on the history of the peerage is the Peers' Reports (No. 2944). Much information concerning the nobility may also be obtained from other books mentioned in § 65, notably Pike's House of Lords (No. 2942). For earls and earldoms in the time of Stephen, Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville (No. 2828) should be consulted. Knight service is ably dealt with by the same writer in his Feudal England (No. 2827); see also No. 2952. works on chivalry and knighthood, see Gatfield's Guide (No. 297), 245-67.

General.

3009. COLLINS, ARTHUR. Proceedings, precedents, and arguments on claims concerning baronies by writ and other honours. London, 1734.

3010. GAUTIER, LÉON. La chevalerie. Paris, 1884; new edition, [1890]. - Translated by Henry Frith: Chivalry. London, 1891.

The best general work on chivalry, but it devotes no particular attention to England.

3011. GNEIST, RUDOLF. Adel und Ritterschaft in England. Berlin, 1853. pp. 103.

3012. JESSOPP, AUGUSTUS. Studies by a recluse. London, 1893. 3rd edition, 1895.

Ch. v. The land and its owners in past times. A good popular account of the various classes and tenures.

3013. LYNCH, WILLIAM. A view of legal institutions, honorary hereditary offices, and feudal baronies established in Ireland during the reign of Henry II. London, 1830.

Ch. xi. contains writs of military and parliamentary summons, 2 John5 James II.

3014. MADOX, THOMAS. Baronia Anglica: history of landhonors and baronies, and of tenure in capite. London, 1736; reprinted 1841.

Contains many extracts from plea rolls and other public records. Valuable. 3015. MILLS, CHARLES. The history of chivalry. 2 vols. London, 1825. Another edition, 2 vols., 1826; reprinted, 1 vol., Philadelphia, 1844.

3016. NICHOLS, F. M. On feudal and obligatory knighthood. Soc. of Antiq. of London, Archæologia, xxxix. 189-244. London, 1863.

3017. NICOLAS, N. H.

History of the orders of knighthood of

the British empire, etc. 4 vols. London, 1841-42.

An elaborate work, entitled The Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter, 1348-1485, by W. H. St. John Hope, will soon be published by Archibald Constable & Co.

3018. SEEBOHM, FREDERIC.

Feudal tenures in England. Fort

nightly Review, new series, vii. 89-107. London, 1870.

A good short account.

3019. TOUT, T. F. The earldoms under Edward I. Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., new series, viii. 129-55. London, 1894.

Family History and Peerage Cases.

Of the many existing family histories and reports of peerage cases those are mentioned below which are particularly rich in records or documentary material.

For genealogical books of reference, see § 8. There is a long list of peerage cases and family histories in Gatfield's Guide (No. 297), 284-522.

3020. Authorities and precedents in support of the claim of baron of Berkeley as a peerage by tenure. [London], 1862.

3021. *BURROWS, MONTAGU. The family of Brocas of Beaurepaire and Roche Court, with some account of the English rule in Aquitaine. London, 1886.

Contains many charters and other records. Manorial accounts, temp. Edw. III., 296-8, 401-6.

3022. CLARK, G. T. The land of Morgan: history of the lordship of Glamorgan. London, 1883.

Deals with the history of the lords of Glamorgan from the 11th to the 14th century.

3023. FINLASON, W. F. A dissertation on the history of hereditary dignities, with special reference to the case of the earldom of Wiltes. London, 1869.

3024. GRAZEBROOK, H. S. The barons of Dudley. Wm. Salt Archæol. Soc., Collections, vol. ix. pt. ii. London, [1889].

Translation of manorial extents, temp. Edw. I., 25-38.

3025. GURNEY, DANIEL. The record of the house of Gournay. London, 1848. Supplement, 1858.

Contains extracts from the public records.

3026. Lords of Avan, of the blood of Jestyn.

Cambrian Archæol.

Assoc., Archæologia Cambrensis, 3rd series, xiii. 1-44. London, 1867.

Appendix of charters, etc.

3027. MARSH, J. F.

Annals of Chepstow castle, or six centuries of the lords of Striguil, from the conquest to the revolution. Exeter, 1883.

3028. Minutes of evidence before the committee for privileges to whom the petition of W. F. Berkeley was referred. [London, 1829.]

3029. Minutes of evidence before the committee to whom the petition of Sir B. W. Bridges, claiming to be Baron Fitzwalter, was referred. [London, 1842.]

3030. Minutes of evidence before the committee to whom the petition of Sir H. P. Bedingfeld [praying to be summoned to parliament as Lord Grandison] was referred. [London, 1854.]

3031. Minutes of evidence before the referred the petition of M. F. F. Berkeley.

committee to whom was London, [1858].

3032. Minutes of evidence before the committee to whom was referred the petition of Lord Stourton, praying her majesty to summon him to parliament as Lord Mowbray. [London, 1876.]

3033. [MORGAN, G. B.] The titular barony of Clavering its origin, etc., illustrated from the public records. London, 1891. pp. 44, with facsimiles.

3034. NICOLAS, N. H. Report of proceedings on the claim to the barony of L'Isle. London, 1829.

3035. Report of proceedings on the claim to the earldom of Devon, in the house of lords, with appendix of patents and cases illustrative of the claim. By Sir [N.] H. Nicolas. London, 1832.

3036. Notes of evidence relating to the barony of Abergavenny. London, 1860.

3037. Notes of evidence relating to the earldom of Arundel. London, 1860.

3038. PILKINGTON, JOHN. The history of the Lancashire family of Pilkington and its branches, 1066-1600. 2nd edition, Liverpool, 1894.

Extracts from the public records, 1355-1460, pp. 68-85. The first edition seems to have been published in the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1894, xlv. 159-218.

3039. SCOTT, J. R.

Memorials of the family of Scott, of Scott's hall, Kent, with an appendix of documents. London, 1876.

3040. [SHIRLEY, E. P.] Stemmata Shirleiana, or the annals of the Shirley family. London, 1841. 2nd edition, 1873.

etc.

The appendix contains a rent roll of Sir Ralph Shirley, 2 Henry V., deeds,

3041. *SITWELL, G. R. The barons of Pulford in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and their descendants. Scarborough, 1889. Contains many extracts from the public records.