iv PREFACE 



paleographical skill and scholarship have been placed at my 

 service at every stage of my work — from the reading of my 

 first manuscript to the collation of my final copy. For my 

 transcripts of manuscript material I must thank several 

 transcribers, but more especially Miss Mary Trice Martin; 

 without her cooperation I could hardly have ventured on 

 printing the appendix. In addition to making many of my 

 transcripts, she has collated with the original manuscripts 

 the typewritten copy of the text of all my documents and 

 has verified all my references to manuscript sources. 



For the arduous task of seeing this monograph through 

 the press, my grateful acknowledgments must be made to 

 Professor E. R. A. Seligman. My thanks are also due to 

 Dr. Eugene E. Agger for correcting the English proof and 

 to Mr. Otis Hill, Dr. Richard Riethmiiller and Dr. Clar- 

 ence Perkins for assistance in reading the Latin and French 

 proof. 



Through the courtesy of the editor and publishers of the 

 English Historical Review I am enabled to make use of my 

 article entitled " The Justices of Labourers in the Four- 

 teenth Century," which appeared in July. 1906. 



New York, September, igoS. 



