Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third

These fifteen volumes offer a detailed account of case-law in the reign of Edward III.

Luke Owen Pike (Edited and translated by)

9781108047906, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

600 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.87 kg

The records of the medieval English courts were compiled into manuscript 'year books', organised by regnal year of the monarch, and further subdivided into the four law terms. The year books of the reign of Edward III (1312–77), beginning at the eleventh year (1337) and continuing to the twentieth (1346), were to have been edited for the Rolls Series by Alfred Horwood (1821–81), who had previously edited the year books of Edward I, but he died while the first volume was in proof. The work was taken over by L. O. Pike (1835–1915), the set of fifteen books being published between 1883 and 1911. (Horwood chose his start date because the year books of Edward II and the first part of the reign of Edward III already existed in modern editions.) This volume contains reports from Michaelmas Term, 12 Edward III, to Trinity Term, 13 Edward III.

Introduction
Value of the Year Books
Courts and assises
Pleadings
The chancery
Laws and customs
Table of the cases in the present volume
Table of references to the Liber assisarum
Table of references to Fitzherbert's Abridgment
The Chancellor and justices of both benches during the period of the reports
Corrections and additions
Reports of cases in Michaelmas Term, 12 Edward III
Reports of cases in Hilary Term, 13 Edward III
Reports of cases in Easter Term, 13 Edward III
Reports of cases in Trinity Term, 13 Edward III
Index of matters
Index of persons and places.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]