with a History from the earliest periods, and lists from Henry III. to 60 Victoria. 8vo.

1897

23. Pulling (A.) Order of the Coif. xxvi + 288 pp., 8vo., 1884; [new edit.] xxviii + (1) + 297 pp., 8vo. 1897 24. Society of Gentlemen Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity. Records; compiled from manuscripts in the possession of the Incorporated Law Society of the United Kingdom. (1) + exiii + 360 pp. 4to.

1897

25. [Wynne (E.)] Observations touching the Antiquity and Dignity of the Degree of Serjeant at Law, with reasons against laying open the Court of Common Pleas. 167 + (17) pp. 8vo.

1765

Sect. IV. LABOURERS, Etc.

See also ch. ii., sect. i., 25, ii. 16.

Brownlow (W. R. B.) Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe. 8vo.

1892

2. Ordynal or statutes concernynge artyfycers, servauntes and labourers, newly printed with dyvers other things thereunto added. 8vo. Wyer. n.d.

[1542?] Putnam (Bertha Weale) The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers during the First Decade after the Black Death, 1349-1359. xii +224 + 480 pp. 8vo. New York.

.

1908

"Their main object was to secure an adequate supply of labourers at the rate of wages prevailing before the catastrophe.. they constitute the first important attempt of the central authorities to apply to the country as a whole uniform legislation on wages and prices." The book contains an account of the justices of labourers and of the enforcement of the statutes on the old local and central courts, including a number of cases extracted from old rolls.

Statutes concerning Artificers, Servants and Apprentices since the time of Edward I. to 3 & 4 Edward VI. 8vo., Hill, n.d.; 8vo., Hill, 1553; 12mo., Tisdale.

1562

5. Washburn (E.) Extinction of Villenage and Slavery in England, with Somerset's Case, read before the Massachusetts Historical Society. 21 pp. 8vo. Boston.

1864

CHAPTER VIII.

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.

Sect. I.-LORD HIGH STEWARD.

1642

1. Certaine Observations touching the two great offices of the Seneschalsey or High-Stewardship and High Constableship of England. 16 pp. 4to. Historical Dissertation on the Origin, Antiquity and Functions of the Office of Lord High Steward of England. 8vo. 1776 There are several tracts on this subject among Hearne's Curious Discourses.

3. Harcourt (L. W. V.) His Grace the Steward and Trial of Peers. 8vo.

1907

A history of the office of steward and of the Court of Chivalry and Court of the Lord High Steward. Appendices of cases in these courts in the 13th to 16th centuries.

See a criticism of this book, by L. O. Pike, in 24 L. Q. R. 442. 4. Office of Lord High Steward of England; or an historical

dissertation on the origin, antiquity and functions of that officer: with remarks on the antient and modern modes of trying peers, and an epitome of some remarkable trials in the reign of Richard II. 8vo.

See also ch. vii., sect. i. 1.

1776

5. [S. (Ed.)] Summus Angliæ Seneschallus: or, Survey of the Lord High-Steward of England, his office, dignity, and jurisdiction, particularly the manner of arraigning a Peer indicted of Treason or Felony, in a letter. 36 pp., 8vo., 1680; 49 pp., 8vo. 1746

Sect. II.-LORD CHANCELLOR.

1. Ellesmere (Baron, Sir Thomas Egerton) Certaine Observations concerning the Office of the Lord Chancellor. (8) + 120 + (6) pp. 24mo.

1651

It is said that this treatise was not really composed by Lord Ellesmere, being full of mistakes and written by some other person, as appears by

the conclusion.

2. Ley on the Antiquity of the Office of Chancellor.

3.

In Hearne's Curious Discourses, vol. 1.

Selden (J.) Brief Discourse touching the Office of Lord Chancellor of England; with a Catalogue of Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Norman Conquest, by Sir W. Dugdale. Fol., 1671; (5) + 90 pp., 24mo.

1677

In Dugdale (Sir W.), Antient Usage in bearing of such Ensigns of Honour, etc., 1811, pp. 249-279.

Sect. III.-JUDGES.

1. Bacon (F.) Office of a Judge.

Appended to Hughes (P.), Georgicum, 1716, pp. 33-38.

2. Cooke (C. G.) Englands Compleat Law-Judge and Lawyer. (14) + 26 pp. 4to.

1656

3. Discourse of the Judicial Authority belonging to the office. of Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery; [by Philip Yorke, First Earl of Hardwicke]. 151 pp., 8vo., 1727. 2nd edit., with additions, the Antiquity of proceedings in Equity, [and] a preface occasioned by a book [by Samuel Burroughs] entitled Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated. (2) + cxxvii + 200 + (1) pp., 8vo. 1728

With regard to the authorship of this work, see Hurd's Life of Warburton, p. 9, and Cooper (C. P.), Lettres sur la Cour de la Chancellerie, 1830, p. 85, n.

4. Georgicum: or, Supplement to the Mirror of Justices [by Andrew Horne]. Being an account of some instances of the practice of former times, in order to the improvement of Justice and safeguard of the Constitution. [By Peter Hughes. With appendix containing the Office of a Judge by Francis Bacon, a list of names and crimes of Justices hang'd by King Alfred, etc.] 48 pp. 1716 5. Ignotus Quidam Judges Judgment; a speech penn'd in the beginning of the Parliament against the Judges. Per Ignotum Quendum. (2) + 10 pp. 4to. 1641

12mo. n.p.

6. Jones (John) Works. 1. Judges judged out of their own mouths. 2. Eight observable points fit to be known by every justice. 3. Authority of a justice. 4. New retorna brevium, or the law returned from Westminster; to which is added, the petition of right granted by

king Cha. I. 5. Jurors judges both of law and fact. 6. Crie of blood; or, a true answer to those thirteen false reasons of the filacers, attornies, etc., for the maintenance of capias and arrest of mens bodies for debt. 24mo. (These tracts are printed separate.)

1650, 1651 7. Resolutions of the Judges of Assizes, 1633. The justices opinion touching the Commissions by which the justices sit at Newgate.

4to.

1633

1.

Gross (C.)

See also sect. v. 5-10; vi. 15, infra.

Select Cases from the Coroners' Rolls, 12651413, with account of the History of the Office of Coroner. xliv + (1) pp. + 132 fol. + pp. 133-159. 4to. (Selden Society Publications, 9.)

1896

2. Middlesex County Records; edited by J. C. Jeaffreson, with index by A. T. Watson. 4 vols. 8vo. 1886-92

Indictments, Coroners' Inquests post-mortem, Recognizances, etc., from Edward VI. to Charles II.

3. Wellington (R. H.) The King's Coroner. A collection of Statutes relating to the Office, with a short history of the same. 2 vols. 8vo.

1905-06

4. Wilkinson (J.) Treatise collected out of the Statutes of this Kingdom and according to common experience of the Lawes concerning the Office and Authoritie of Coroners and Sherifes, with an easie method for the keeping of a Court Leet, Court Baron, and Hundred Court, etc. (3) + 48 + 179 fol., 16mo., 1618; (3) + 191 fol., 16mo., 1620; (3) + 191 fol., 16mo., 1628; 16mo., 1651; 16mo., 1652; (4) + 378 + (3) pp., 16mo., 1657; 8vo. 1675

1. Betts (A.)

13 pp.

See also sect. iv. 4, supra.

Sorrows of a Sheriff in the fifteenth century. 8vo.

Reprinted from the Juridical Review.

1911

2. Dalton (Michael) Officium Vicecomitum; the Office and Authoritie of Sherifs. (3) + 194 + (5) fol., 4to.,

1623. Corrected, (4) + 584 + (8) pp., 4to., 1662; fol., 1670. [With] appendix or supplement. (4) + 564 [568] + (27) pp., fol., 1682-[81]; (4) + 564 [568] + (28) pp., fol. 1700

3. Dalton (Michael) Office and Authoritie of Sherifes. Abridged. Editions, (4) +260 + (4) fol., 24mo., 1628; 24mo.

4.

1651

Hale (Sir M.) Short Treatise concerning Sheriffs Accompts. 8vo., 1683; 71 pp., 8vo., 1716 (issued with the 1716 edition of his "Pleas of the Crown ").

"I have given a large historical narrative of the Sheriff's Accompts for the annual revenue of their countries: wherein some things may occur that may be useful to the understanding of the sheriff's accompts, and many other old obscure records. Some things also relating to the difference between the auditors of the revenue and the officers of the Pipe."-Preface.

5. Impey (J.) Office of Sheriff; shewing its history and antiquity, [with] the mode of electing Coroners and returning Members of Parliament. (6) + 554 + 40 + (60) pp. 8vo.

6.

7.

1786

2nd edit., [with] the Office and Duty of Coroner [and] appendix of precedents. xiv + (1) + 654 + (1) + 126 pp. 8vo.

1800

Also the Practice of the Office of Coroner [with] appendix of precedents. 4th edit., (5) + 582 [602] pp., 8vo., 1817; 5th edit., 8vo.

8.

9.

10.

1822 (3) + 651 pp. 8vo.

1835

4th edit. (6) + 525 + (92) pp. 16mo. Dublin.

1797

In this booke is contained the office of Shiriffes, Bayliffes of liberties, Escheatours, Constables, and Coroners, and sheweth what every one of the may do by virtue of theyr offices, drawen out of bookes of the common lawe and of the statutes.

Editions, 12mo., Redman, n.d.; 8vo., Petyt, 1543; 12mo., Middleton, 1545; Powel, 1549; Tottell, 1550; Powel, 1552; 12mo., Wight, 1556-52; Tottel, 1562; 80 11., Marshe, 1562; 57 11., Tottyl, 1570; Allde, 1573; Kynge, n.d.; Marshe, Marshe, n.d.; "Marche," n.d.

Extracted from "The new book of Justices of Peace of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert.