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Eleanor C. Lodge and Gladys A. Thornton, eds.
English Constitutional Documents 1307-1485.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1935.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: the University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 141x202x40mm.
Page count: xxviii,431pp.
Main languages: texts in Latin, Old French & Middle English (no translations provided); introductions & apparatus in English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; boards and spine faded, and rather frayed at the edges and corners; page edges dusty; the binding is starting to split internally here and there, though no pages are detached; previous owners’ names on the front endpapers, and at least 5 pages have some inked marking.

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Weight without packaging:591g.

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Provides a comprehensive anthology of documents and extracts, aiming to fulfil the same function for this later period as Stubbs' Charters does for the Normans; organised under the following headings:
1. Central govt.: The crown; The Council; The household — wardrobe & chamber; Parliament; Chancery; The seals; Exchequer; Justice;
2. The Church;
3. Local govt.: Justices of the peace; Sheriffs; Coroners; Escheators; The forests; Seignorial jurisdiction; The towns — Bristol — Leicester — London — Norwich — Oxford — Reading — Southampton.

Introduction: at the beginning of each section
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossaries: French terms; Latin terms
Bibliography: regular short lists
Index: yes

See also | History of law |
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