22 * APPENDIX 



De supersedendo execucioni commissionis iusticiariorum ad 



statutum de operariis factum faciende. 



Rex dilectis et fidelibus suis lohanni de Lyouns et sociis suis 

 iusticiariis ad ordinacionem et statutum de operariis, seruien- 

 tibus et artificibus ac de ponderibus et mensuris in comitatu 

 Norht' custodienda, salutem. Quibusdam certis de causis nos 

 mouentibus, vobis mandamus quod execucioni commissionis 

 nostra vobis in hac parte facte vlterius faciende supersedeatis 

 quousque aliud a nobis inde habueritis in mandatis. 



Teste Thoma filio nostro carissimo custode Anglie apud 

 Wodestok, quarto die Nouembris, 



Per ipsum custodem et consilium. 

 Consimilia breuia uiriguntur singulis iusticiariis ad statutum 

 predictum in singulis comitatibus per Angliam custodiendum 

 assignatis quod execucioni commissionis Regis eis inde facte 

 supersedeant in forma predicta. 



Teste vt supra. 



2. Chronological list of commissions to enforce the statutes of 

 labourers issued during the years iS4g-i^§p and enrolled 

 among the letters patent. 



In cases where commissions are duplicated almost abso- 

 lutely, both as to date and names (evidently by a clerical 

 error), the second has been omitted from the lists and merely 

 indicated in a note ; but although there are usually several 

 districts (in one instance, nineteen) that receive two or three 

 commissions annually, these repeated districts are counted over 

 again. Divisions of counties, e. g. Holland, etc., are counted 

 as counties ; the palatinates are omitted, removals are not re- 

 ferred to, and vacated commissions only in the notes ; asso- 

 ciations are given merely as totals for each regnal year. 



For the first and second periods the marginal headings on 

 the Patent Rolls are misleading; they contain no reference to 

 the labour legislation, but are : " De custodia pacis," or " De 

 pace conseruanda," or "De audiendo et terminando felonias," 

 etc. Cf. my article in E. H. R., 522, for the exact phraseology. 



