DOCUMENTS, LISTS AND TABLES 7 * 



sources, would reveal the date and real significance of 

 innumerable undated petitions, and would thus throw 

 light on the working of mediaeval machinery. My in- 

 vestigation has included so few out of the mass of 

 about 16,000 petitions that the results are not im- 

 portant. 



Royal and Historical Letters, collected from various classes of 

 documents; cf. Scargill-Bird, op. cit., 330-331. 



List of Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and Ex- 

 chequer, Lists and Indexes, no. xv. 



Undoubtedly some of these would also reveal coun- 

 cil methods but have not been included in my search. 



Parliament Rolls. (Chancery.) 



Parliamentary and other Proceedings. (Chancery). 



Parliamentary Proceedings. (Exchequer, K. R.) 



Statute Rolls ; imperfect, supplemented by the above. 

 Rotuli Parliamentorum. 



These include parliament rolls from various sources, 

 some of the material contained in the second of the 

 two series of " Parliamentary Proceedings," and 

 many petitions from "Parliamentary and other Peti- 

 tions." Cf. Maitland, Records of the Parliament of 

 130^, introduction, xxvii, xxxii, Ixii. 



I have relied altogether on the printed Rotuli. 



The Statutes of the Realm. 



These include the Statute Rolls, some of the ma- 

 terial contained in the second of the two series of 

 " Parliamentary Proceedings," and a number of 

 British Museum transcripts of documents of various 

 kinds. 



As illustrative of parliament and council action, 

 the statutes and ordinances are, of course, the most 

 important ; in this case it has, therefore, seemed wise 

 to depart from my plan of including in the appendix 



