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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:

PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE,
BY MACKIE & CO. LD., 59, FLEET STREET, E.C.

And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from
WYMAN AND SONS, LD., FETTER LANE, E.C.; or
OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH; or

EDWARD PONSONBY, 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN,

1906.

IBKYKA

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CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION :

Reports of the year 19 Edward III. not previously
printed

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The manuscripts used to establish the text

The corresponding records compared

References to Fitzherbert's Abridgment, and the
Liber Assisarum

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Matters illustrating the social history of the period -
A Latin text of the Statute of Gloucester, c. 11
Villenage: use of the words nativus and villanus
The nativus (or French neif) in the writ of Naifty
The villanus in the writ of Quod permittat facere

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sectam

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The nativus always of unfree condition, the villanus
possibly not

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The nativus in the action of Waste

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No English word strictly equivalent to the Latin
nativus

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A case of Monstraverunt: plaintiffs attribute their
own surnames to ancestors who lived in the time
of the Conqueror

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The surnames of the ancestors were invented, family
names not being usually hereditary at the time
The complaint of the tenants against the lord
Allegation of the lord that certain of the tenants

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