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INDEX 



Committee of apportionment, 44- 



45, 109, 111-113. 

 Common law, 178, 189-191, 194- 



19s, 199- 



Common Pleas, court of, pt. ii, 

 ch. ii, passim, especially 166, 

 168, 169, 170-172, 175. See 

 also De Banco Rolls, Reports 

 and Records. 



Commons, action of the, 26-28, ZZ^ 

 34, 99-100, 106-107, 139-140. 

 See also Petitions in Parlia- 

 ment. 



Communities, the, 33, 35, 118, 120, 

 125-127, 131, See also Peti- 

 tions and Taxpayers. 



Compulsory service clause, 3, note 



1, 71. 73-74, 82, 157, 161, 175, 

 176, 179-181, 190, note 3, 198, 

 199-200, 205-206, 212-213, 217, 

 222; exemption from, 74, 180- 

 181; form of writ, 174-175,212, 

 note 4. 



Constables, duties of, 10, 66, 67- 

 68, 73, 76, 83, 100, 113, 114, 

 119, 161, 197; delinquencies of, 

 77, 94, 102. 



Contract clause, pt. ii, ch. ii, ss. 



3, 4> 5. 6 and 7; 71, 74, 78, 82, 

 83, 162-163; form of writ, 174- 

 175. See also Departure and 

 Retention. 



Contracts, 15^^, 157-160, 162-163, 



177-179, 223. 

 Controlment Rolls, 166, note 2, 167. 

 Coram Rege Rolls, 97, 166, note 



2, 171-173, 241*. See also 

 King's Bench, Plea Rolls and 

 Records. 



Coroners, 52, 116, note 2, 137. 



Coroners' Rolls, 166, note 2, 167, 

 170, 144*, 239*. 



Council, see King's council. 



Counts, 177, 178, note 3, 192. 



Counties, commissions for labour- 

 ers in, pt. I, ch. I, ss. I, 2 and 



4, I38*-I39*; distinction be- 

 tween, 39, 198-199, 203-205. 

 See also Petitions. 



County court, 69, 161, and note 3, 



162. 

 County Placita, 96, 239*, 240*. 

 Covenant, see Actions of covenant. 

 Craft gilds, 155. 

 Damages, see Money penalties. 



Davenport, quotation from, 163, and 

 note 4. 



De Banco Rolls, 166, note 2, 171- 

 172. See also Common Pleas, 

 Plea Rolls and Records. 



Defendants, 181-182, and note i, 

 213; pleas of, 187, 192 et seq., 

 197; decisions of courts as to, 

 pt. ii, ch. ii, s. 7. See also 

 Employees and Employers. 



Departure within term, actions for, 

 74, 158, 175, 181, 195; form of 

 writ, 174-175, 177-178. Seealso 

 Contract clause, Defendants, 

 Employees and Employers. 



Deputies of justices of labourers, 



54, 59-60, 228*-229*. 



Distraint, writs of, 68, note 4, 119, 

 132, 135, 137. 



Durham, palatinate of, 10, 12, 16, 

 2,7; Cursitors' Records, i9*-20*. 



Ecclesiastical authorities, 189. See 

 also Church. 



Employees, actions against, 181; 

 analysis of, 182 et seq.; manual 

 labourers, 78, 179; above man- 

 ual labourers, 81, 91, 183, 186 

 et seq.; rights of, under con- 

 tract clause, 192-194. See also 

 Defendants. 



Employers, actions against, 70, 

 181-182, 213, 221, 223; rights 

 of, under compulsory service 

 clause, 181, 199-200; under 

 contract clause, 194 et seq., 

 203. See also Defendants and 

 Plaintiffs. 



Enrolled Subsidies, 127, 257*, 312*- 



314*. 



Estreats, definition of, 61; method 

 of writing, 61-62, 65, 136; de- 

 livery of, to proper official in- 

 sisted on by exchequer, 35-36, 

 63, 64, pt. I, ch. iii, passim; 

 separation of estreats of justices 

 of labourers from those of 

 keepers of the peace, 18, 23-24, 

 146. See also Accounts, 

 Monej' penalties and Justices 

 of labourers. 



Excess, see Money penalties. 



Exchequer, 32-33, 35-36, 64-65, 92, 

 97, pt. i, ch. iii, passim.. See 

 also Accounts, Estreats, and 

 Money penalties. 



