2094. Calendarium rotulorum chartarum [1199-1483] et inquisitionum ad quod damnum [1307-1461]. Record Com. [London], 1803.

This calendar is printed from a MS. in the Public Record Office, and seems to have been compiled in the time of James I. It is imperfect, but useful. An inquisition ad quod damnum was taken by virtue of a writ addressed to the royal escheator of a county when any grant of a market, fair, or privilege was requested, commanding him to ascertain by the verdict of a jury whether such grant, if it should be made, would be to the damage of the king or of other persons. For a list of inquisitions ad quod damnum, 1244-1485, published by the Public Record Office, see No. 2105.

For a calendar of royal charters which occur in letters of inspeximus, exemplification, or confirmation, and in chartularies, in the Public Record Office, see Deputy Keeper's Reports, 1868-69, xxix. 7-48, xxx. 197-211.

2095. Calendarium rotulorum patentium [3 John-23 Edw. IV.]. Record Com. [London], 1802.

A collection of notes, which seems to have been made early in the 17th century. It does not cover more than one-fifth of the entries on the patent rolls to 23 Edward IV.

2096. Early Scottish charters [A.D. 565-1153], ed. A. C. Lawrie. Glasgow, 1905.

Many of these are grants to the monks of Durham and to other English religious houses.

2097. *Fœdera, conventiones, litteræ, et cujuscunque generis acta publica inter reges Angliæ et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, pontifices, principes, vel communitates [1101-1654], ed. Thomas Rymer; vols. xvi.-xx., by Robert Sanderson. 20 vols. London, 1704-35.-2nd edition, by George Holmes, 17 vols., 1727-29, published by Tonson.-3rd edition, 10 vols., The Hague, 1739-45. -New edition [1069-1383], by Adam Clarke, Frederic Holbrooke, and John Caley, 4 vols. in 7 pts., Record Com., 1816-69 [vol. iv. printed 1833, published 1869].-Syllabus of documents in Rymer's Fœdera. By T. D. Hardy. Rolls Series. 3 vols. London, 1869-85.

Vols. i.-xvii. (London, 1704-17), extending to 1625, are often called the first edition. The new edition' contains many municipal charters. All the editions are fully described in Hardy's valuable Syllabus, which also contains a good index and chronological abstract of the various editions, See also C. P. Cooper, Account of the Public Records, 1832, ii. 89–144. A General Introduction to the Fœdera (pp. 72) was printed by the Record

Commission in 1817, but not published; pp. 1-24 of this Introduction correspond to pp. i.-xii. of vol. i. of the Fœdera, 1816.

This great national work was undertaken at the public expense; Rymer (b. 1641, d. 1713) was appointed editor in 1693.

2098. [Fœdera, etc.] Acta regia, or an account of the treaties, etc., published in Rymer's Fœdera [1101-1625]. Translated from the French [of Paul de Rapin de Thoyras, by Stephen Whatley]. 4 vols. London, 1726-27.-Reprinted, 4 vols., 1731 I vol., 1732; I vol., 1733.

Rapin's abstract or abridgment of the Fœdera was originally published in Le Clerc's Bibliothèque Choisie. It is also printed in vol. x. of the Hague edition of the Fœdera, under the title, Abrégé Historique des Actes Publics d'Angleterre.

2099.

[Report on Rymer's Fœdera: appendixes, A-E. By C. P. Cooper. Record Com. 3 vols. London, 1836?] App. A. Catalogue of various MSS. relating to Great Britain in continental libraries.

App. B. Fragments of Anglo-Saxon literature found in continental libraries.

App. C. Documents from the archives of Hamburg, Munich, etc. App. D. Inventories of documents relating to Great Britain in the national archives of France.

App. E. A chronological catalogue of the materials transcribed for the new edition of the Fœdera.

This valuable work was not completed or published, but copies of the portions in print were distributed by the master of the rolls in 1869.

2100. Grants, etc., from the crown during the reign of Edward V., from the original docket book, MS. Harl. 433, ed. J. G. Nichols. Camden Soc. London, 1854.

Mainly letters patent and close.

2101. Inventory of the records in the Tower. Deputy Keeper's Reports, ii. app. ii. 1-65. London, 1841.

Cartæ antiquæ, 1-2.

Charter, patent, and close rolls, 2-24.

Treaty rolls, 37-45.

2102. Inventory of the records of chancery in the rolls chapel [from 1 Edward V. onward]. Ibid., iii. app. ii. 135-55, iv. app. ii. 99-112. London, 1842-43.

French and Scotch rolls, iii. 140-41.
Charter and patent rolls, iii. 142-8.

Close and confirmation rolls, iii. 148

51, iv. 99-107.

2103. Letters and papers illustrative of III. and Henry VII., ed. James Gairdner. London, 1861-63.

the reigns of Richard
Rolls Series.
Rolls Series. 2 vols.

Most of the documents of Richard III.'s reign are copied from the Harleian MSS., and deal mainly with England's foreign relations.

2104. Letters of the kings of England [Rich. I.-Charles I.], ed. J. O. Halliwell. 2 vols. London, 1846; reprinted, 1848. Translations only.

2105. List of ancient correspondence of the chancery and exchequer preserved in the public record office [royal letters, etc., circa Rich. I.-Hen. VII.]: Public record office, Lists and indexes, no. xv. Rolls Series. London, 1902.-List of chancery rolls [charter, patent, close, fine, parliament, and other rolls, 1 John onward]: ibid. no. xxvii. London, 1908.-List of inquisitions ad quod damnum [28 Hen. III.-2 Rich. III.] ibid. nos. xvii., xxii. 2 pts. London, 1904-06.

See a review of the List of Ancient Correspondence by C. V. Langlois, in Journal des Savants, 1904, pp. 380-93, 446-53; and see his paper on Nova Curie, in Revue Historique, 1905, lxxxvii. 55-79.

2106. Official correspondence of Thomas Bekynton, secretary to Henry VI., ed. George Williams. Rolls Series. 2 vols. London, 1872.

Contains many letters of Henry VI. to continental potentates, and other documents throwing light upon the foreign relations of England during the first half of the 15th century. See No. 2233.

2107. Original letters illustrative of English history, including numerous royal letters [1418-1726], ed. Henry Ellis. 3 vols. London, 1824; 2nd edition, 1825.-2nd series [Hen. IV.-1795], 4 vols., 1827.—3rd series [1074-1799], 4 vols., 1846.

2107a. *Recueil des actes de Henri II. concernant les provinces françaises et les affaires de France: introduction [and atlas. 2 vols.]. By Léopold Delisle. Paris, 1909. [Contains, at pp. 507-57, a list of 569 charters, the full text of which will be printed in a succeeding volume to be edited by Elie Berger.] Recueil de 109 chartes originales de Henri II. [a calendar]. By Léopold Delisle. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, lxix. 541-80, 738-40. Paris, 1908.

Delisle, in his Mémoire sur la Chronologie des Chartes de Henri II. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 1906, lxvii. 361-401) and his

supplementary Notes sur les Chartes (ibid., 1907, lxviii. 272–314), contends that in 1172-73 the title Henricus rex Anglorum' was replaced in royal documents by 'Henricus Dei gratia rex Anglorum,' and hence that the king's style may be used as a test in fixing the dates of his charters, which are regularly undated. This view is assailed by J. H. Round in a paper on The Chronology of Henry II.'s Charters, in the Archæological Journal, 1907, lxiv. 63-79; but it is supported by R. L. Poole in an article on The Dates of Henry II.'s Charters, in the English Historical Review, 1908, xxiii. 79-83. For Delisle's reply to Round's criticism, see Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 1907, lxviii. 525-36. See also the introduction to his Recueil des Actes, where questions of diplomatics and chronology are fully treated.

For letters written by and to Henry II., 1156–78, see Bouquet's Recueil des Historiens (No. 575), xvi. 633-55.

2108. *Rotuli chartarum, 1199-1216, ed. T. D. Hardy. Record Com. [London], 1837.

The introduction contains a good account of the structure of charters.

2109. *Rotuli litterarum clausarum [1204-27], ed. T. D. Hardy. Record Com. 2 vols. [London], 1833-44.-Close rolls of the reign of Henry III. [1227-42]. Rolls Series. [4 vols.] London, 1902-II.

The introduction to vol. i. of the Rotuli was also separately printed : A Description of the Close Rolls, with an Account of the Early Courts of Law and Equity, 1833. It contains some interesting remarks on the history of equitable jurisdiction.

Sir Thomas Phillipps is said to have printed Abbreviatio Rotulorum Clausorum ab 1 Edw. III. ad Rich. III.; and Index to the Close Rolls for Wiltshire, 3 Edw. III.-36 Hen. VI. For a transcript of a portion of the close roll 36 Henry III., see C. P. Cooper, Account of the Public Records, 1832, i. 414-35.

2110. *Rotuli litterarum patentium, 1201-16, ed. T. D. Hardy. Record Com. [London], 1835.-Patent rolls of the reign of Henry III. [1216-32]. Rolls Series. [2 vols.] London, 1901-03.

The introduction to the Rotuli was also separately printed, under the title, A Description of the Patent Rolls, to which is added an Itinerary of King John, 1835. See No. 2834.

2111. Rotuli selecti ad res Anglicas et Hibernicas spectantes, ed. Joseph Hunter. Record Com. [London], 1834.

Contains patent roll 7 John, pp. 1-38; letters patent of discharges of debts and arrears of accounts, and patents of annuities, enrolled in the memoranda of the Irish exchequer, Hen. V.-12 Hen. VI., pp. 39-103.

2112. Royal and historical letters during the reign of Henry IV., ed. F. C. Hingeston. Vol. i., 1399-1404. Rolls Series. London, 1860.

These documents, taken mainly from the Cottonian and Harleian MSS., relate to the affairs of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, and other countries. For the Netherlands, 1405-13, see L. V. D. Owen, England and the Low Countries, in English Historical Review, 1913, xxviii. 13-33.

2113. Royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of Henry III., from the originals in the public record office, ed. W. W. Shirley. Rolls Series. 2 vols. London, 1862-66.

Made up of 'litteræ regum,' or 'ancient correspondence,' together with some letters taken from the patent and close rolls. Valuable.

b. PARTICULAR COUNTRIES.

For a calendar of entries in the papal registers relating to Great Britain, see No. 612. The material on English affairs in the Venetian archives has been calendared by Rawdon Brown and others for the Rolls Series, in eighteen volumes (London, 1864-1912), the first of which covers the years 1202-1509.

France.

The French rolls extend from 26 Henry III. to 26 Charles II. ; the Norman rolls, 2 John-10 Henry V.; the Gascon or Vascon rolls, 26 Henry III.-7 Edward IV. The Norman and Gascon rolls relate respectively to the affairs of Normandy and Aquitaine while those provinces were under the dominion of the English crown. The earlier French rolls relate mainly to the English possessions in France, but the later ones contain many diplomatic documents concerning European countries in general. Norman and French rolls, see also Nos. 2141, 2144.

For

2113a. Actes de la chancellerie d'Henri VI. concernant la Normandie sous la domination anglaise [1422-35], ed. Paul Le Cacheux. Société de l'Histoire de Normandie. 1907-08.

2 vols. Paris,

2114. *Calendar of documents preserved in France illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. J. H. Round. Vol. i., A.D. 918-1206. Rolls Series. London, 1899.

A calendar of royal charters, private deeds, etc.; most of them are grants to religious houses. See also a calendar of Richard I.'s charters,