LUKE OWEN PIKE,

OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD, M.A., AND OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW;
AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF CRIME IN ENGLAND,"

"A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS," ETC.

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S
TREASURY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS.

LONDON:

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1904.

Records compared: how used to illustrate reports -

The Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas

Custody and care of them: a curious history

The earliest rolls sent to the Exchequer, the most

recent retained in the Court

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Warrant of Charles II. for removal of the Plea Rolls

of dates between Richard II. and Edward VI. to

the Exchequer

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Rolls actually removed only to the end of the reign

of Henry VII.

Inferior officials of the Exchequer wrote the words

"De Banco" on the earlier Plea Rolls

These rolls were properly described as "Plea Rolls

of the Court of Common Pleas " by the Master of

the Rolls in 1842, but scheduled as "De Banco"

by some subordinate

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The later rolls beginning 1 Henry VIII. originally

preserved in Westminster Hall

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Division of them into "Plea Rolls" and "Common

Rolls" in the reign of Elizabeth

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Absence of information touching them from the

Officers of the Court

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Report of a removal of them from Westminster Hall

to the "King's Mews" in 1830

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All the rolls of earlier date than 25 Elizabeth in-

accurately called "Common Rolls" in this report -

Removal of the later rolls from the King's Mews to

Carlton Ride

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Continued inaccuracies of description

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All the rolls of the Court placed in the same reposi-

tory in 1842: confusion of terms

The earlier rolls again separated from the later rolls

in 1847, and removed as "Judgment Rolls"

Description of the whole series of Plea Rolls in the

earliest Public Record Office lists

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Those "Plea Rolls" which Charles II. desired to have

calendared still uncalendared and still described

as "De Banco Rolls"

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Difficulty of correctly citing the rolls of Edward III.
so that they can be found

Rolls of the King's Bench: the "Plea Rolls" and

the "Crown Rolls"

Method adopted to facilitate the search through the

rolls of the two Benches

And the Assise Rolls

And the Chancery and Exchequer records

References to Fitzherbert's Abridgment, and the

Liber Assisarum

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The life and death of the Chancellor known as Robert

፡፡ Parning"

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Different modes of spelling the name -

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It was, like Plantagenet, that of a cognisance, or

ornament

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The name found in the form "Peruinke" in the "Roll

of Battle Abbey

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His struggles with poverty

It is the French pervenche, the English periwinkle

The Chancellor was Robert Paruynge, or Paruynk,

or Peruinke, the younger

Robert, the elder, parson of Hutton in Cumberland

The Chancellor's early life: acting as attorney

His associates at Westminster

His annuity of £1. 6s. 8d. and one robe of an esquire -

His rapid rise: knight of the shire and serjeant-at-

law

Married, and purchasing lands

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Appearance in the reports as counsel -

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King's Serjeant: rapidly growing in wealth -

Grant to him, from the Crown, of 100 marks per

annum for life

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Justice of the Common Bench, Chief Justice of the

King's Bench, and Treasurer within seven months -

Presides as Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer to

try Willoughby, the late Chief Justice

Further grant to him, from the Crown, of an annuity

of £40

Appointed Chancellor -

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His judgment in Chancery in the case of the Wells

charter

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