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in Cartellieri's Philipp II. August (No. 2809), ii. 288-301, iii. 217-33; a calendar of those issued by John as count of Mortain, 1192-98, ibid., iii. 234-5; and Delisle, Actes de Henri II. (No. 2107a).

2115. Calendar of French rolls [1 Hen. V.-49 Hen. VI.]. Deputy Keeper's Reports, xliv. 543–638, xlviii. 217-450. London, 1883-87.

2116. Calendar of Norman rolls, Henry V. Ibid., xli. app. i. 671-810, xlii. 313-472. London, 1880-81.

This supplements Hardy's work (No. 2126).

2117. CARTE, THOMAS. normans, et françois. 2 vols. Incomplete.

Catalogue des rolles gascons,
London, 1743.

2118. Extrait du registre des dons, etc., faits dans le duché de Normandie pendant 1418-20 par Henri V., ed. Charles Vautier [i.e. Crescent Guiton]. Paris, 1828.

2118a. Les grands traités de la guerre de cent ans [13591444], ed. E[ugène] Cosneau. Paris, 1889.

2119. Letters and papers illustrative of the wars of the English in France during the reign of Henry VI. [with a translation], ed. Joseph Stevenson. Rolls Series. 2 vols. in 3 pts. London, 1861-64.

Transcribed from various archives in England and France.

2120. Lettres de rois, reines, et autres personnages des cours de France et d'Angleterre, depuis Louis VII. jusqu'à Henri IV., ed. [J. J.] Champollion-Figeac. Documents Inédits. 2 vols. Paris, 1839-47.

Contains mandates, letters patent and close, diplomatic correspondence, etc., of English kings relating to their possessions in France, etc.

2121. MIROT, LÉON, and DÉPREZ, EUGÈNE. Les ambassades anglaises pendant la guerre de cent ans: catalogue chronologique, 1327-1450. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, lix. 550-77, lx. 177-214, lxi. 20-58. Paris, 1898-1900.

Catalogue of a series of exchequer accounts in the Public Record Office rendered by ambassadors to France.

2122. Narratives of the expulsion of the English from Normandy, 1449-50, ed. Joseph Stevenson. Rolls Series. London, 1863.

De reductione Normanniæ, by Robert Blondel, 1-238. See No. 1723. Le recouvrement de Normendie, par Berry, hérault du roy, 239-376. See No. 1719.

Negotiations between France and England, 377-514.

2123. Original documents relating to the hostages of John king of France and the treaty of Brétigny in 1360, ed. Sir G. F. Duckett. London, 1890. pp. 78.

2124. Rôles gascons, ed. Francisque Michel. Vol. i., 1242-54. Documents Inédits. Paris, 1885.-Supplement, 1254-55, ed. Charles Bémont, 1896.-Vols. ii.-iii., 1273-1307, ed. Bémont, 1900-06.

This valuable work contains letters patent and close, etc., of English kings relating chiefly to the affairs of Aquitaine. The earliest Gascon rolls, down to 1273, are not exclusively concerned with the affairs of Gascony, but contain charters and other documents enrolled in this series by reason of the presence of the king in Gascony. Bémont accomplished their publication for the reign of Edward I. from photographs supplied by the English government to the French: see Montagu Burrows, The Publication of the Gascon Rolls, Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., new series, 1892, vi. 109-24. A fragment of the roll of 26 Henry III. was printed by the Record Commission: Rotulus Vasconiæ, Henricus III. [London, 1836 ?], pp. 28. A roll of 1286, recently discovered, is described by Bémont in Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 1910, lxxi. 219–22.

2125. Rôles normands et français et autres pièces tirées des archives de Londres par Bréquigny. Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, Mémoires, vol. xxiii. pt. i. Paris, 1858.

An extensive collection of documents, mainly letters patent of Henry V. relating to France. See also Jules Delpit, Collection Générale des Documents Français qui se trouvent en Angleterre (Paris, 1847), i. 219–32.

2126. Rotuli Normanniæ, 1200-1205, 1417-18, ed. T. D. Hardy. Record Com. [London], 1835.-Another edition, 141722, Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, Mémoires, XV. 215-90. Paris, etc., 1846.-Rotulus Normannie, 1346-47, in Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1345-48, pp. 473-570. London, 1903.

Contains letters and grants of English kings relating to the duchy of Normandy. Supplemented by No. 2116.

Ireland.

The official publication of separate Irish and Scottish calendars of documents in the Record Office (Nos. 2127, 2131, 2133) has been discontinued as unsatisfactory. Such documents are now included in the general calendars (§ 53a). For the Calendar of the Carew MSS., see No. 518.

2127. Calendar of documents relating to Ireland [1171-1307], ed. H. S. Sweetman. Rolls Series. [5 vols.] London, 1875-86. Abstracts of letters patent and close, and of other documents. Valuable.

2128. Chartæ, privilegia, et immunitates: transcripts of charters and privileges to cities, towns, abbeys, etc., 1171-1395. Printed by the Irish Record Commission, 1829–30. Dublin, etc., 1889. pp. 92.

Particularly valuable for the letters patent and close, bulls, etc.

study of municipal history. Contains The work was not completed.

2129. Liber munerum publicorum Hiberniæ, ed. Rowley Lascelles. [Not completed; planned by the Irish Record Commission, printed 1822-30, and issued from the Rolls House. 2 vols. London, 1852.]

Vol. i. pt. iv., pp. 1-147, contains patents of office, letters patent and close, etc., 1181-1653; taken from Rymer's Fœdera, Prynne's Animadversions on Coke's Fourth Institute, etc. There is an index of the Liber Munerum in Deputy Keeper's Reports, Ireland, 1877, ix. 21–58.

2130. Rotulorum patentium et clausorum cancellariæ Hiberniæ calendarium [ed. Edward Tresham]. Vol. i. pt. i., Hen. II.-Hen. VII. Irish Record Com. [Dublin], 1828.

A calendar of charters, letters patent, statutes, inquisitions, etc. See also No. 2009.

Norway.

2130a. Aktstykker vedrorende Norges Forbindelse med de Britiske er, ed. Alexander Bugge. Vol. i., A.D. 991-1323. [Diplomatarium Norvegicum, 19th series, pt. i.] Christiania,

1910.

Texts (Latin) of English documents-letters, charters, accounts, etc.-bearing on the relations between England and Norway. Valuable.

Scotland.

See p. 474, and § 54.

2131. Calendar of documents relating to Scotland preserved in the public record office, London [1108-1509], ed. Joseph Bain. 4 vols. H.M. Register House, Edinburgh, 1881-88.

A valuable calendar of documents in the patent, charter, close, and plea rolls, etc.

2132. Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland and the transactions between the crowns of Scotland and England [21 Hen. III.-35 Edw. I.], ed. Francis Palgrave. Vol. i. Record Com. [London], 1837.

The elaborate introduction deals with the history of the relations of Scotland to England.

2133. Documents illustrative of the history of Scotland, 12861306, ed. Joseph Stevenson. 2 vols. Edinburgh, 1870.

H.M. Register House,

See also Documents Illustrative of Sir William Wallace, his Life and Times [temp. Edw. I., ed. Joseph Stevenson], Maitland Club, [Edinburgh], 1841.

2134. Instrumenta publica sive processus super fidelitatibus et homagiis Scotorum domino regi Angliæ factis, 1291-96 [ed. Thomas Thomson]. Bannatyne Club. Edinburgh, 1834.

Title on the cover, The Ragman Rolls. Contains documents concerning the succession to the Scottish crown and concerning the English claim of feudal superiority over Scotland. Cf. Rymer's Fœdera, 1816, i. 762-84; and H. T. Riley's edition of Rishanger (No. 1836), 233-368.

2135. Rotuli Scotia [1291-1516]. Record Com. 2 vols. [London], 1814-19.

Documents illustrating political transactions between England and Scotland, including naval and military affairs, etc.

2136. Tracts relating to the English claims, 1301 [extracts] in W. F. Skene's Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, 216-84. H.M. Register House, Edinburgh, 1867.

Wales.

See No. 2656.

2137. Rotulus Walliæ, or transactions between Edward I. and Llewellyn, the last prince of Wales [5-9 Edw. I., ed. Thomas Phillipps]. Pt. i. Cheltenham, 1865. pp. 44.

For a calendar of Welsh rolls, see No. 2093a.

§ 54. THE ARMY AND NAVY.

The principal sources for the study of the history of the army and navy are:

1. Writs of military summons, most of which are entered on the close and treaty rolls: No. 2149.

2. Muster, retinue, and marshalsea rolls, giving the names of those who served in various campaigns: Nos. 1946, 2146-7, 2149. For a muster roll of the army, 1417, see Benjamin Williams's edition of Gesta Henrici V. (No. 1789), 265-73; and for part of a muster roll, 21 Edward III., see Yeatman, Feudal History of the County of Derby (No. 871), i. 479–82.

3. Accounts of payments to men who served in various campaigns: Nos. 2140, 2148, 2150.

4. Ordinances for the army and navy: Nos. 2143, 2145.

5. The Black Book of the Admiralty, the chief source for the study of maritime law: No. 2145.

6. The Bayeux Tapestry, which throws light on the battle of Hastings and the events which led to it: No. 2139. Baudri, bishop of Dol, 1107-30, wrote a poem, addressed to Adela, daughter of William the Conqueror, in which he describes a tapestry similar to that of Bayeux; this poem has been edited by Léopold Delisle, in Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, 1871, xxviii. 187-224.

7. The scutage rolls and wardrobe accounts: §§ 50b, 50e, 50f, and Nos. 2093a, 2149.

There is an ancient English poem on the siege of Harfleur and the battle of Agincourt in Thomas Hearne's edition of the Vita et Gesta Henrici V. (No. 584), 359-75. Page's poem on the siege of Rouen, 1418, has been edited by James Gairdner: No. 1829. For the modern literature concerning the army and navy, see §§ 21, 68.

For contemporary continental authorities on the Hundred

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