DOCUMENTS, LISTS AND TABLES 



239 



For an excellent example of a pardon for outlawry of an 

 otTencler convicted before the justices of labourers in Wilts., 

 cf. Pat., 2y, pt. 2, m. 14; CaL, ix, 485.^ For an example of a 

 certificate of the process of outlawry sent into chancery by 

 the justices and always mentioned in the pardon, cf. County 

 Placita, York, W. R., no. 61. 



The roll described in List of Plea Rolls under "Coroners' 

 Rolls " as Rotulus Coronatoris, Wilts., 198, 7 membranes, 

 proves to be a roll of exigends of a long list of offenders 

 convicted before the justices of labourers during the years 28- 

 31 Edw. III. It includes the same full details of process as 

 does the roll just quoted, but gives very many more names of 

 offenders. Likewise, Coroners' Rolls, Suffolk, 175, 28-31 Edw. 

 Ill, 12 membranes, and 176, 29 Edw. Ill, 7 membranes, each 

 described as Rotulus Coronatoris, prove to be rolls of exigends ; 

 they include instances of offenders against the statutes of 

 labourers convicted before the justices of labourers as well as 

 in the upper courts.^ 



_'. Records illustrating the supervision of the justices in session. 

 (Cf. pt. I, ch. ii, 7.) 



INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 



Assize Rolls. 



These have already been referred to as catalogued in List 

 of Plea Rolls, in some cases with inadequate description of 

 their character. My examination of the series was with the 

 specific purpose of identifying sessional records, and there- 

 fore included only a cursory glance at rolls that were plainly 

 rolls of oyer and terminer ; but even this slight investigation 

 showed several instances where the justices were under in- 

 dictment for misdeeds in session, and there are probably more 

 such instances. 



Chancery as a Court of Law. 



The latter half of the fourteenth century is the period dur- 



* Cf. also app., F, 2. 'Pt. ii, ch. ii, s. i, and app., F, 2. 



