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i:r.i'i>i;ns, PUBLIC. 



III. The Royal Prcrvj" 



1. In Ecclesiastical Affaire. Before and after the Reformation. 

 Proceeding* of the Commonwealth. 2. In Civil Affairs. General 

 Administration of the Hen 1 in. Honours and Office*. Trade ami ('.'in. 

 3. In Military and Naval Affaire. 4. In Foreign Affairs. 



IV. The Royal Rirmuet. 

 1. Ordinary. Lund Revenue*. Casual Revenues. 2. Extraordinary. 



V . ( 'iiirtt of Juttice. 



1. Of Abolished or Obsolete Jurisdiction. Curia Regis. Placita de 

 Assists. Placita Itinernria. Placita Foresto. Placita Corona;. 

 Placita AuUc. Placita de Quo Warranto. Star Chamber Proceedings. 

 Court of Requests. Court of Wards and Liveries. Court of Augmen- 

 tations. Surveyor-General's Court. Court of Chivalry : namely, 

 Constable and Marshal. 2. Of Occasional Jurisdiction. Special Com- 

 missions. Court of Judicature for determining Differences after the 

 f London. High Court of Justice. 8. Of Established Juris- 

 diction. Chancery. Its ordinary and Extraordinary Jurisdiction. 

 King's Bench. Pleas of the Crown and in Civil Suits. Common Pleas. 

 Exchequer of Account The Queen's Remembrancer's Office. The 

 Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office. Exchequer of Receipt- 

 Tellers, Tally Court, Auditor or Tally Writer, Pell Office, Auditors of 

 Imprest, Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts. Exchequer 

 of Pleas and of Error. Marshalsea and Palace Courts. Session of 

 Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for London, and Gaol Delivery 

 for Middlesex. Great Sessions of Wales. Duchy of Lancaster. 

 Counties Palatine. Stannary Courts. Cinque Ports. Commissioners 

 of Sewers. Quarter-Sessions and Clerks of the Peace. Maritime 

 Courts. Admiralty Instance Court, Admiralty Prize Court, Court of 

 Appeal in Prize Causes. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Archiepiscopal. 

 Episcopal, Appellate Jurisdiction, Deans and Chapters. Courts for 

 offences in India. 



VI. Unirertities and Collegei, Sdiooti, <kc. 



1. Universities and College*. 2. Royal Schools, Chauntries, Hos- 

 pitals, Colleges, Free Chapels, Fraternities, and Guilds. 



VII. Alienation of Private Property. 

 SCOTLAND. 

 1. The King. 



Title, Great Seal, Privy Seal, Signet, Chancery, Revenues, and 

 Expenses. Acta of Civil Government. Ecclesiastical Government. 

 2. Parliament. 3. Privy Council. 4. General Registers. 5. Courts 

 of Justice. Court of Session. Justiciary Court. Court of Exchequer. 

 Admiralty Court. Commissary Courts. Court of Teind. Sheriff 

 Court. 6. Universities. 



IRELAND. 



The Principal Record Repositories in Dublin are the 7fcrmi'<//mi 

 Toicrr, which' contains Plea Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Summonisters' Rolls, 

 Sheriffs' Tot Rolls, &c. ; the Parliamentary Record Office ; the Rulls 

 Office; the Statute Rolls from Hen. V. to the Union; Patent and 

 Close Rolls from 31 Ed. I. to the present time; Inquisitions post 

 Mortem; Fiants from 21 Hen. VIII. to the present time: Decree 

 Rolls ; Recognisance Rolls from 21 Hen. VIII. ; the Clui-f Remem- 

 brancer'i Office, Memoranda Rolls from 6 Ed. I. to the present time ; 

 the Auditor-(icnerar Office, Rolls of Public Accounts from Hen. VIII.; 

 the Receiver-General, Vice-Treasurer's, Pell's, and Chamberlain's 

 Books, the Debenture Exchequer Bills, and other Loan Books, the 

 Vouchers of Public Accounts, the Collector's Accounts from every 

 district in Ireland ; the Quit-Rent Receipt Books, the Sheriffs' 

 Accounts, with some Ancient Accounts of the Hanaper, First Fruits, 

 Farmers of Revenue, Subsidies, Poll Tax, &c. The Prerogative Office ; 

 the Pint Frnitt Office ; Surrri/or-Generart Office. (Kej-orta of the Com- 

 mittionert on the PMic Kecordt of Inland.) 



The molt imjtortant /'.- '.< may lie enumerattd as follows: 



Great Roll of the Exchequer, from Hen. II., 11541833. 

 Exchequer Lord Treasurer's, and Pipe Office, 2 Hen. II. 1833 ; with 



Memoranda Rolls, originalia Rolls, and various other enrolments, 



1 Hen. III. 1833. 

 Exchequer Bang's Remembrancer Memoranda Rolls, and various 



classes of the Exchequer equity business, 1 Hen. III. 1841, when 



the business was transferred to the Court of Chancery. 

 Exchequer First Fruits and Tenths, certificates of Institution* to 



Livings, 1568 present time ; and various other classes, Hen. VIII. 



to present time. 

 Exchequer Court of Augmentations, Ministers' account of ' 



lands, and lands in the hands of the Crown, 27 Hen. VIII., 



1 Mary, when the Court was abolished. 

 Exchequer Ministers' Accounts, 1 Mary (.'has. II. ; and various other 



classes, Hen. VIII. 1649. 

 Exchequer Pleas or Judgment Rolls, and various classes of Records of 



the Court, 1293 to present time; from 1830, including the business 



of the abolished Welsh Courts. 



Comptroller's or Chancellor's Roll, 11 Hen, 111833 (now deposited in 



tin- I'.ritish Museum). 



Rotuli CurU I., 11U4 Hen. III., 1216. 



Fines, Concords. Writs of I'ovenant, Feet of Fines, &o., 25 Hen. II., 



1179- Win. IV. .1833. 



Charter Rolls, John, 1199 Hen. VIII., 1509. 



Norman Rolls, John, 1200-11, n. V.. 1112. 

 Patent Hoi Is. John, 1201 present time. 

 Close Rolls, John, 1204 Oeo. II., 1727. 

 Liberate Rolls, John, 1200 -Edw. IV., HflO-1. 

 Fine Rolls, John, 1204 Chas. I., 1625. 

 French Rolls, Hen. III.. 12 :2 Kdw. IV., 1460-1. 

 Gascon Rolls, Hen. III., 1242 Hen. VI., 1 122. 

 Scotch Rolls, Edw. I.. 1 -.'HI -Edw. IV.. 1460-1. 

 Roman Rolls, Edw. I., 1305-Edw. IV., 1460-1. 

 Statute Holla (afterward the Parliament Rolls), Edw. I., 1277- Ivlv. . 



IV., 1460-1. 

 Rolls of Parliament, Edw. I., 1272-Ric. III., 1483; Statute. 



VII., 1485 to present time. 



Petitions in Parliament, Edw. I., 1272 Edw. IV., 1460. 

 Journals of the House of Lords, Hen. VIII., 1509 to present time. 

 Journals of the House of Commons, Hen. VIII., 1509. 

 Summons and Returns to Parliament, Edw. I., 1288 II. -u. VI., 1422; 



38 Hen. VIII. present time. 



Original Acts of Parliament, 12 Hm. VII. present time. 

 Inquisitiones post Mortem, or Escheats, Hen. III., 1210 Chas. I., 



1625. 



Inquisitiones ad quod damnum, Edw. II., 1307 Heu. VI., 1422. 

 Coronation Rolls, Edw. II., 1307 (series imperfect) Geo. II., 1727. 

 Treaty Rolls (irregular series). Kdw. V.. 11*:;- .lames II., 1684-5. 

 Confirmation Rolls, Ric. III., 1483 Commonwealth, 1649. 

 Dispensation Rolls, 37 Eliz. Geo. II., 17'-'7. 

 Rolls of Pardons, Rie. III., 1483 Eliz., 1558. 

 Judgment or Decree Rolls of Chancery, -~> ll.-n. VIII. present 



time. 



Court of Chancery, various classes, from John to the present time. 

 Surrender and Specification Rolls, Chas. II., 164S 1) present time. 

 Privy Seals and Signet Bundles, Bills, and Writs, Edw. I., 1272 



present tune. 



Signed Bill Bundles, Hen. VII., 1485 present time. 

 King's Bench Judgments, &c. inrolled, Kdw. I., 1272 present time. 

 King's Bench Crown side, Curia Regis and Coram Rege, or Crown 



Rolls, 5 Ric. I., to present time ; Controlment Rolls, 1 Edw. III. 



1844 ; various other classes from James I. to present time. 

 King's Bench Plea side; before 1702, see Coram Rege; various 



classes of Records of the Court, from 1 700 to present time. 

 Common Pleas Plea or Judgment Rolls, and Placita terne, and various 



classes of Records of the Court, Heu. III. to present time ; for prior 



records set: Curia Regis. 



Pleas of the Forest, Hen. III., 1216 James II., 1684-5. 

 Miscellaneous Records of the King's Remembrancer, Ric. I., 1189 



Geo. III., 1760. 



Placita de Assisis, 6 Ric. I. Edw. V., 1483. 

 Court of Wards and Liveries, Hen. VIII. Chas. II., when the Court 



was abolished. 



Star Chamber Court 3 Hen. VIL 16 Chas. I., when it was abolish* d. 

 Wales various Courts, abolished 1830 ; various classes, Hen. III. 



1830. 



The preceding list exhibits generally, with a few exceptious here- 

 after noticed, the commencement of the chief and most valuable of 

 our national records, and the periods over which they extend, from tho 

 time of Richard I., the boundary of " legal memory." 



In the above list we have not included Domesday Book, the choicest 

 of all our record treasures, and the corner-stone of our topographical 

 history. The record itself has been most faithfully printed, and 

 copiously described by Sir Henry Ellis. [DOMESDAY BOOK.] There 

 are two abridgments of Domesday Book among the exchequer records, 

 made probably about the time of Henry III. Subsequent territorial 

 surveys, the Hundred Holls, Extenta Manerii, Testa de Nevill. l'"i>i- 

 Nicholas' Taxation temp. Edw. I., the Domesday of Wales, and Nmiir 

 Rolls temp. Edw. III., King Henry VIII.'s Surveys, and Parliamentary 

 Surveys of the Commonwealth, are excluded, because they form no 

 consecutive series like the above. 



The Great Roll of the Exchequer, or Pipe Rolls, or Rotuli Aunales, 

 being yearly accounts of the king's revenue, are conjectured to have 

 begun with the Conqueror. Some evidence exists to establish that 

 they probably extended over the whole reign of Henry I., though we 

 know at present but of a single roll, the thirty-first year of that reign, 

 which the Record Commission published under the editorship of Mr. 

 llnnirr. Excepting the rolls for the 1st of Henry III. and 7 Henry 

 IV., the series from the 2nd of Henry II. is complete. Madox speaks 

 of them as " Rccorda omnium qua; in Archivis Regis usquam me 

 memini, splendidissima, post Rotulum censualem quern Librum Domes- 

 day vocant ; ijuin ei iwquiparanda." 



The series of Fines, being records of the transfer of land*, Ac . 

 extends unbroken, and almost miclianged in form, from the 25 H. my 

 II. to the end of the year 1833, when this species of conveyance was 

 abolished. [FINES.] Since the 16 Edward I. they have been delivered 



