British Borough Charters^ 1042 — 1216. Edited by 

 Adolphus Ballard, LL.B. {Loud.), Hon. M.A. (Oxon.), 

 Town Clerk of Woodstock, Author of The Domesday 

 Boroughs and The Domesday Inquest. 



Royal 8vo. pp. cxlviii + 266. Price 15.?. net. 



Extract from the Preface 



In these pages I have collected about 330 charters and 

 documents relating to the boroughs of the British Isles, which 

 can be dated before the death of King John, and have analysed 

 them into their constituent clauses, and rearranged them in 

 the form of a code. The three parts of the Introduction will 

 furnish all necessary explanations ; the first part explains our 

 methods of study and specifies the sources from which the 

 documents are derived : the second part is a short commentary 

 on the code : the third part contains four supplemental essays, 

 in two of which I have attempted to find some general 

 principles underlying the code of municipal privileges, while 

 in a third I have compared some contemporary foreign 

 municipal charters with those of the British Isles. But in 

 these essays, I have dealt only with the problems of the 

 twelfth century, except where express reference is made to 

 other periods : and it does not follow that, because I have 

 hazarded certain opinions with regard to the formation or 

 characteristics of boroughs in that century, I hold the same 

 opinions with regard to the same problems either in earlier or 

 later centuries. 



CONTENTS 

 Introduction. 



I Preliminary. II Notes on the Code. Ill Supplemental Essays. 



CHARTERS 



I Formation of Borough. 



IIa Burgage Tenure and Law of Real Property. 



IIb Tenunal Privileges. 



III Burgess Franchise. 



IV Jurisdictional Privileges. 



A. Courts. B. Modes of Trial. C. Procedure. I). Punish- 

 ments. E. Distress. 



V Mercantile Privileges. 



A. Markets and Fairs. B. Guilds and Trades. 



VI Borough Finances. 



VII Borough Officers. 



.\|jpendix. (a) Additional Charters ; (/') Addenda et Corrigenda. 

 Index. 



