(b) Statutes at Large from Magna Charta, ed. O. Ruffhead and others. London, 1763-18co.

From 1215 to 1800.

(c) Statutes at Large of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. T. E. Tomlins and others. London, 1804-69.

From 1801-1869.

(d) Public General Statutes.

From 1830-1887.

(e) Public General Acts. Published by Authority.

1888 and following.

From these editions may be studied the sequence of legislation and the detail of acts from the earliest records to the present annual publications. In addition to the series mentioned there are series of Revised Statutes published by authority. These are not as valuable for historical research. as they do not contain obsolete statutes. Abridgments and other private editions of the laws are of even less value from the historical standpoint. — The series named are well indexed and see for this Gross. Bibliography of Municipal History, No. IX as well as works therein mentioned on page 13 et seq.

The student should make himself familiar with the principal series of reports and also with accounts of trials in the various courts.

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LETTERS.

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Various important collections of letters have been made. See the titles in chapter II, also No. VIII.

MABILLON: Acta Sanctorum Ordinis Sancti Benedicti in Sæculorum Classes distributa ... Paris, 1688-1701. Venice (reprint), 1733

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This work is of value. VIII does not give full list of the lives of the British saints in L, but the exclusion is judicious. as all lives not based upon manuscript sources are excluded.

MAITLAND CLUB PUBLICATIONS.

This club was instituted at Glasgow in 1828 for the purpose of printing works illustrative of the antiquities, literature and history of Scotland. See Nos. VIII, X and societies catalogues. See also Wodrow Society Publications catalogue in No. X and No. VIII.

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MANX SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was instituted at Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1858, for the purpose of publishing materials for the history of Soder and Man. The publications afford valuable light in an obscure field.

MESSINGHAM, THOMAS: Florilegium Insula Sanctorum seu Vitæ et Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ.

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For contents, see VIII. For additional lives of the saints - and from such writings much of the detail of early history may be obtained — see Capgrave's Nova Legenda Ångliæ (see No. VIII, p. 736 and note). See Pinkerton's Vita Antique Sanctorum Scotia (contents stated in No. VIII).

MIGNE, L'ABBÉ: Patriologia Cursus Completus. Paris, 1844-1855. Part of this set exists in a French translation.

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This monumental series contains well edited texts of the works of the early English writers, and also valuable correspondence. See No. VIII for contents.

MONUMENTA HISTORICA BRITANNICA, or Materials for the History of Britain, ed. H. Petrie and J. Sharpe. London, 1848.

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A valuable work. Of particular interest because of the material bearing upon earliest British history.

OSSIANIC SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was instituted at Dublir., 1853, for the purpose of preserving and of publishing manuscripts in the Irish language illustrative of the Fenian period of Irish history... with literal translations and notes. The publications are of great interest. See No. X. See also No. XLVI and note to No. XV.

PARKER SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

This society was instituted at Cambridge, 1840, for the purpose of reprinting without abridgment, alteration, and omission, of the best works of the Fathers and early writers of the Reformed English Church, published in the period between the accession of King Edward VI. and the death of Queen Elizabeth. See Nos. VIII, X, and note to No. XV.

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PARLIAMENTARY WRITS and writs of military sum..relating to the suit and service due and performed to the King's high court of Parliament and the councils of the realm, or affording evidence of attendence given at Parliaments and councils, ed. F. Palgrave. No. XXXI. London, 1827-1834.

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Of this work Professor Gross well says: "The most elaborate source for the study of parliamentary history in the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II." See also W. Prynne's A brief register, kalender, and survey of the several kinds [and] forms of all parliamentary writs. London, 1659-64. Examples extend to 1483. In connection with Parliamentary Writs, see Parliamentary Papers, 1878, vol. lxii, parts i-iii. London, 1878, for a Return of the name of every member of the lower house of the Parliaments of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency_represented, and date of return, from 1213 to 1874. Also Parliamentary Papers, 1890-91, vol. lxii, London, 1891, which contains the foregoing to 1885. See also the critical examination of above compilations by W. W. Bean in the Parliamentary Returns... London, 1883.

PIPE ROLL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was instituted in London, in 1883, for the purpose of publishing the Great Rolls of the Exchequer, commonly called the Pipe Rolls, and other documents prior to the year A.D. 1200. The rolls begin in 2 Hen. II., and extend with but two breaks (1 Hen. III. and 7 Hen. IV. - this break is filled by other records) to 1833. The Rolls are of great value. One not in sequence, that of 31 Hen. I., is the oldest national document, except Doomsday book, now in existence. The student should make himself familiar with the Charter, Close, Hundred, Patent, Plea, and other Rolls. See Nos. VIII and X (p. 22 et seq.), and note to No. XV.

RECORD COMMISSION PUBLICATIONS.

Under the term "Records" Messrs. Gardiner and Mullinger, in their exceedingly valuable little text-book English History for Students, include "(1) Inrolments which are intended to be official and authentic records of lawful acts made by the proper officer of any court upon rolls, or, in some case, in official entry-books of the same court; (2) Memorandum of acts or instruments brought into the proper office of any court by parties interested therein (or by their agents) either in the form of rolls or otherwise, and pre

served in bundles or on files; (3) Books of entries, containing memorandum of acts, etc., entered by officers of the court; (4) State papers, which form a distinct branch of the records."

The publications of the Commission include The Correspondence of Henry VIII. (abstracted in No. XXII), The Statutes of the Realm (No. XLVIII, C, a), The Doomsday Book (No. XCI, D), Ancient Laws and Institutes (No. XCI, A), and various other important publications, notably indexes, catalogues, and transcripts. See Record Commission Catalogue (Macmillan & Co. will send on request). See Handbook to the Public Records, ed. F. S. Thomas, Lond. 1853, and Guide to Principal Classes of Documents preserved in Public Record office, ed. R. S. Bird.

(ROLLS SERIES. See No. XXX.)

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ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was founded in London, in 1868. Its publications are varied in subject and of unequal value. They furnish, however, much information of importance that is not elsewhere obtainable. Consult the publications of the Royal Society (not to be confounded with No. LXI) for history of the progress of science. See note to No. XV.

SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

This society was instituted, in 1886, at Edinburgh for the purpose of discovering and printing, under selected editorship, unpublished documents illustrative of the civil, religious, and social history of Scotland. Its publications are valuable. See note to No. XV.

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SCRIPTORES

The items under this head are numerous. In the various series may be found, with scant 'exceptions, all the texts of the writers of the pre-printing epoch in English history. The student should be informed as to the contents of the various series and their critical value. See No. VIII. The names of the principal sets are here given.

(a) Scriptores post Bedam, ed. Savile. London, 1596. Frankfort, 1601.

(b) Scriptores Decem, Historia Anglicana, ed. Twysden. London, 1652.

(c) Scriptores Rerum Anglicarum, ed. Fulman. Oxford, 1684.

(d) Scriptores XV, Historia Britannica, Saxonica, Anglo-Danica, ed. Gale. Oxford, 1691.

(e) Scriptures Varii, Historiæ Anglicanæ, ed. Sparkes. London, 1723.

(f) Scriptores Vetustiores, Rerum Britannicarum, id est Anglia, Scotia, vicinarumque insularum ac regionum, ed. Commelin. Heidelberg, 1587.

(g) Scriptores Normanniæ, ed. Duchesne. Paris, 1619. (h) Scriptores Veteres rerum Hibernicarum, ed. O'Conor. Buckingham, 1804-1806.

(i) Scriptores Rerum Danicarum Medii Ævi, ed. Langebek. Hafiniæ, 1772.

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SELDEN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

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This society was founded, in 1887, for the purpose of encouraging the study and advancing the knowledge of the history of English Law. Its objects in detail are "the printing of manuscript and of new editions and translations of books having an important bearing on English legal history; the collection of materials for dictionaries of Anglo-French and of law terms; the collection of materials for a history of English law," etc. etc. The works of the society are of the highest importance. See note to No. XV.

SPALDING CLUB PUBLICATIONS.

This Club was instituted at Aberdeen, 1839, for the purpose of printing the historical, ecclesiastical, genealogical, topographical, and literary remains of the North-Eastern counties of Scotland. See Nos. VIII, X, and the society catalogues. In connection with Scottish history, see the Scottish Burgh Record Society (note to No. XV).

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SURTEES SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.

This society was instituted at Durham, 1834, for the purpose of publishing inedited manuscripts illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the East between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and on the West between the Mersey and the Clyde - the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. The publications of this society are interesting and of peculiar value within its chosen field. See Soc. Catgs., also Nos. VIII and X, and note to No. XV.