OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE, OXFORD, M.A., AND OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW; "A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS," ETC. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S LONDON: PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EDWARD PONSONBY, 116, GRAFTON STREET, DUBLIN, 1906. (ix) CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION : Reports of the year 19 Edward III. not previously The manuscripts used to establish the text The corresponding records compared References to Fitzherbert's Abridgment, and the Page XV XV xvi xvi Matters illustrating the social history of the period - xvi xvi xvii xvii sectam xvii The nativus always of unfree condition, the villanus xviii The nativus in the action of Waste xviii No English word strictly equivalent to the Latin xix A case of Monstraverunt: plaintiffs attribute their xix The surnames of the ancestors were invented, family Page The inquisition taken returned into the Chancery Annoyances to persons passing with ships and boats Injury to mills, and floods caused by a lock Plea, in arrest of judgment, that the verdict had been taken out of Court, but the Chief Justice claimed the power to take jurors about in carts Judgment for the nuisances to be removed at the A great flood delays the execution of part of the work Escape of Mortimer the nephew, and arraignment of the Constable of the Tower thereon |