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)

9781108047982, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

780 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm, 1.13 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, 17 Edward III, to Hilary Term, 18 Edward III.

Introduction
Table of cases in the present volume
Table of references to the Liber assisarum
Table of references to Fitzherbert's Abridgment
Table of references to the folios of the old editions
The Chancellor et alii during the period of the reports
Names of the 'narratores', countors, or counsel
Corrections
Reports of cases in Michaelmas Term 17 Edward III
Reports of cases in Hilary Term 18 Edward III
Appendix
Index of matters
Index of persons and places.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]