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For references to articles in Reviews, etc., and books in which Early English law is incidentally touched upon or records printed, Gross's Sources and Literature of Early English History should be consulted. The subject-index to the books in the London Library is also valuable in this connection. 1. Bassett (T.) Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law Books of this Realm, and some others relating thereto, alphabetically digested under proper heads, with an account of the best editions.

12mo.

1671; 1682

2. Bridgman (R. W.) Short View of Legal Bibliography, containing some critical observations on the authority of the reporters and other law writers collected from the best authorities. 8vo.

1807

3. Brunner (H.) Geschichte der englischen Rechtsquellen im Grundriss mit einem Anhang über die normanischen Rechtsquellen. 75 pp., 8vo. Leipzig.

4.

1909

Sources of the Law of England: an Historical Introduction to the Study of English Law. From the German, with bibliographical appendix, by W. Hastie. x + (1) + 63 pp., 12mo. Edinburgh.

1888

5. Catalogue of the MSS. in the Cottonian Library deposited in the British Museum. By J. Planta. Fol. 1802

This collection of MSS. was accumulated by Sir Robert Cotton during the latter part of the 16th century and first few years of the 17th century. The MSS. relate principally to the History, Laws and Constitution of Britain.

6. Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum. With indexes of persons, places and matters. 4 vols. Fol.

1808-12

A collection of many thousands of books, charters and rolls, including register books, chartularies, copies of laws of the Anglo-Saxon, Danish and Norman Kings of England, transcripts of early statutes, readings on statutes, copies of Bracton, Britton, Fleta, etc., Year Books, Reports, ancient registers of original writs, pleas of the crown, treatises on the

institutions, establishment and jurisdiction of the superior and inferior Courts, etc.

7. Catalogue of the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum. In two parts with Indexes. Fol.

1812-19

About fifty volumes contain reports of cases, temp. Henry. VIII. to Charles I., besides numerous other volumes of law collections, readings, entries, pleadings, etc., chartularies, Hudson's Treatise on the Court of Star Chamber, Sir Julius Caesar's MSS., etc.

8. Clarke (J.) Bibliotheca legum, or complete catalogue of the common and statute law books of the United Kingdom. 16mo. 1810; 1818 Crawford (C. C.) Guide to the Study of the History of English Law and Procedure. 8vo. Toronto. 1923 Classified references to cases, statutes, or books.

10.

Gavet (G.) Sources de l'histoire des Institutions et du Droit Français; Manuel de bibliographie historique. 8vo.

1899 "The best general bibliographical and critical survey of European law." J. H. Wigmore.

11. Gross (C.)

Sources and Literature of English History from earliest times to about 1485. xx + 618 pp., 8vo., 1900; 2nd edit., xxiii + 820 pp., 8vo.

12. Hoffman (D.) Course of Legal Study. 8vo., Baltimore, 1817; 2 vols., 876 Baltimore.

1915

(2) + 383 pp.,

[878] pp., 8vo.,

1836

Judge Story remarks that "the writers whom he recommends are of the very best authority, and his own notes abound in just and discriminating criticism."

It is truly a bibliographical treasure.-MARVIN, Leg. Bib.

12a. Holdsworth (W. S.)

of English Law.

History of the Sources and Literature 8vo.

1925

13. Marvin (J. G.) Legal Bibliography, or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books; together with some Continental Treatises. 8vo. Philadelphia.

1847

14. Nicolson (W.) The English Historical Library, giving a short view and character of most of our historians either in print or in manuscript, with an account of our Records, Law Books, etc. 2 vols., 8vo., 1696-9; 2nd edit., fol.

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18. Stubbs (W.) Lectures on Early English History. 8vo. 1906

Contains (pp. 37-133) a full account of the law books of the Norman

period.

19. Wallace (J. W.) The Reporters arranged and characterised; with incidental remarks. 3rd edit., 424 pp., 8vo., Philadelphia, 1855; 4th edit., by F. F. Heard, vi + (1) +654 pp., 8vo., Boston.

1882

20. Worrall (J.) Bibliotheca Legum, or compleat list of the common and statute law books of this realm. 16mo.,

1731; 3rd edit., 1736; 6th edit., 1746; 1763; 1768; 1782; 1788

The 1788 edition is in two parts. Part 2 contains a general account of the laws and law writers of England, the public records, statutes, reports, etc., by E. Brooke.

Sect. II. DICTIONARIES, GLOSSARIES,

PALEOGRAPHY.

See also ch. i., s. iv., 73; ch.

xv., s. v., 36.

1. Agard (A.) Explanation of the more difficult words in Domesday book, MS. Cott. Lib. Vitell, n. 9. It is printed in Append. to Gale's Honoris de Richmond. See also Herne's Law of Conveyances. There is also a further assistance of this kind by another eminent antiquary, Mr. Francis Tate, whose exposition of the more difficult words in Domesday was formerly in the library of Ld. Hatton. His explication of the abbreviated words in that ancient record is printed in preface to Hearne's Curious Discourses.

2. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, with a compendious glossary, etc. 2 vols., 8vo. 1840

Issued also in 1 vol., folio.

3. Betts (A.) Glossary of Ancient Words, mostly in connection with fines and mulcts, services and tributes, punishments, etc. vii + 86 pp., 4to. Contents, Abbadia-Azenaria.

1907

4. Blount] (T.) Noμo-Aegikov; a Law Dictionary. Interpreting difficult and obscure words and terms in Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern Lawes. Not paged, 4to., 1670; 2nd edit., not paged, fol., 1691; 3rd edit., by W. Nelson, not paged, fol.

1717

5. Bosworth (J.) Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 8vo., 1838; 8vo.,

Oxford.

6. Brief Method of the Law French. Fol.

7.

1882-[98]

1670

Byrne (W. J.) Dictionary of English Law. xliv + 942
PP., 4to.

8. Calvinus. Lexicon Juridicum Juris Romani

1923

Simul et

Canonici: Feudalis Item. Civilis, Criminalis: Theoretici,
Ac Practici: Et in Schola, Et in Foro. Fol.

1600

9. Catholicon Anglicum; an English-Latin Wordbook, 1483.
Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by S. J. H.
Herrtage, with Preface by H. B. Wheatley.
Society, N.S., v. 30.)

(Camden

1882

9a. Chassant (L. A.) Dictionnaire des Abréviations. 8vo.,

9b.

Evreux.

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1846

1847

10. Clover (B.) The Mastery of the French Language in England from the 11th to the 14th Century; including the Phonetics and Morphology of the Norman French Language with special reference to the Law Reports contained in the Year-Books. iv + 123 pp., 8vo. New York. 1888

11. Cowell (J.) Interpreter; or, Booke containing the Signification of Words. Wherein is set foorth the meaning of words and termes mentioned in the Lawe Writers or Statutes. Not paged, 4to., Cambridge, 1607; not paged, 4to., 1637; not paged, 4to. 1658

12.

13.

14.

Nouolerns; the Interpreter. Enlarged by Tho. Manley, not paged, fol., 1672; 2nd edit., by Tho. Manley, not paged, fol.

1684

Interpreter of words and terms used in the Common or Statute Laws of this Realm. Augmented. Not paged, fol.

1701

Law Dictionary; or, Interpreter of words and terms used in the Common or Statute Laws of England. Augmented, to 1708. Not paged, 4to., 1708; augmented, not paged, fol.

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The Interpreter was written at the suggestion of Bishop Bancroft, and is an enlargement of a Treatise entitled Les Termes de la Ley.' It was the misfortune of Cowell to live in tyrannical times, and some of the author's enemies, among whom were Sir Edward Coke, discovered that the Interpreter contained what they represented to be dangerous doctrines, under the titles Subsidy, Parliament, King, Prohibition, etc.

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