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(3) Healey, Somerset Pleas, 1897 (1200-1257). 
(4) Clay, Three Yorkshire Assize Rolles, 1911 (1202- 
1208). 
(5) Maitland, Gloucester Pleas of the Crown, 1884 
( 1221 ). 
(6) Watson, Bristol Pleas of the Crown, 1902 (1221). 
(7) Parker, Calendar of Lancashire Assize Rolls, 1904- 
1905 (1241-1285). 
(8) Page, Three Northumberland Assize Rolls, 1891 
(1256-1279). 
(9) Bracton’s Note Book, 1887 (1218-1240). 
(10) Phillimore, Pleas of the Court of King’s Bench, 
1898 (1297). 
And excerpts from rolls from the reigns of Richard I to 
Edward III are found in a compilation made during the 
reign of Elizabeth and known as 
Abbreviate Placitorum (1189-1327). 
Records of some early state trials with reports of testi- 
mony, etc., are published in 
(1) Cobbett and Howell, State Trials, 1809-1828 (1163- 
1820). 
(2) Tout and Johnstone, State Trials of Edward I, 1906 
(1289-1293). 
2. The Year Books. 
“So far as we know the earliest Year Book now in existence is one 
of the eighteenth year of Edward I, 1289-1290. From that time on- 
wards until 27 Henry VIII, 1535, we have a fairly perfect succession 
of them. There are a few terms of Edward I’s reign missing; and in 
the reigns of Henry VII and VIII there are intermissions. They stop 
finally, as I have just said, in 1535, when their place was taken by 
printed reports made by counsel who published them in their own 
names.” 110 
Between 1866 and 1879 the British Records Office produced in five 
volumes the Year Books for 20 to 35 Edward I (1292-1307) edited by 
Mr. A. J. Horwood in a most scholarly fashion, and between 1883 and 
1911 the Year Books for 11 to 20 Edward III (1337-1346) in 15 volumes, 
the first volume edited by Mr. Horwood and Mr. Luke Owen Pike, the 
others by Mr. Pike, who even improved upon Horwood’s work. The 
Year Book for 12 Richard II (1289-1290) was published in 1914 by 
Harvard University Press and under the Ames Foundation. The 
Selden Society, between 1903 and 1922, published fifteen volumes 
of Year Books of the early years of Edward II (1307-1314) ably 
edited by Maitland, Turner, Harcourt, Bolland, Vinogradoff, and Ehr- 
lich. It is still engaged in its plan to publish at least the remaining 
years of that reign. The result is that there are at present in print 
the following series of Year Books: 
The Black Letter Edition (1307-1537) (unsatisfactory). 
Rolls Series, Horwood (1292-1307). 
110 Holland, The Year Books, 8. 
