617. HARDY, W. J., and GEE, HENRY. Documents illustrative of English church history [A.D. 314-1700]. London, etc., 1896.

Contains forty-five medieval and seventy-nine modern documents (translations only).

618. HART, RICHARD. Ecclesiastical records of England, Ireland, and Scotland, to the Reformation. Cambridge, 1836 ;

2nd edition, 1846.

An epitome of Wilkins's Concilia (No. 631).

619. HOLSTENIUS [HOLSTE], LUCAS. Codex regularum monasticarum. 3 pts. Rome, 1661; [new edition], 6 vols., Augsburg, 1759.

The most nearly complete collection of monastic rules.' A copy of the autograph of St. Benedict's Rule was made for Charlemagne, and a copy of this copy is extant in St. Gall MS. 914 (published entire by Germain Morin: Regulæ Sancti Benedicti Traditio Codicum MSS. Casinensium, etc., Monte Cassino, 1900). Edmund Schmidt's edition (Regula Sancti Patris Benedicti juxta Antiquissimos Codices, Ratisbon, 1892), though not constructed on critical principles, gives a fair idea of this text. Woelfflin's edition (Leipsic, 1895, pp. 85), though based on manuscripts older than St. Gall 914, in the main represents the text as modified by later changes. See also The Rule of St. Benedict, edited, with an English translation, by a monk of St. Benedict's abbey, Fort-Augustus [O. H. Blair], London, [1886], 2nd edition, [1906]; Ludwig Traube, Textgeschichte der Regula S. Benedicti, Munich, 1898; The Rule of St. Benedict, translated by F. A. Gasquet, London, 1909; and § 38c.

620. JAFFÉ, PHILIPP. Regesta pontificum Romanorum ad annum 1198. Berlin, 1851; 2nd edition, by Wilhelm Wattenbach and others, 2 vols., Leipsic, 1885-88.-Continued to 1304 by August Potthast, 2 vols., Berlin, 1874-75.-Regesta pontificum Romanorum [designed to be a complete collection of papal documents anterior to 1198], ed. P. F. Kehr. Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Berlin, 1906, etc. [Italia pontificia, ed. Kehr, vols. i.-vi. pt. i., 1906-13; Germania pontificia, ed. Albert Brackmann, vol. i. pts. i.-ii., 1910-11.]

For the 13th and 14th centuries, see the registers of various popes in Bibliothèque des Ecoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Paris, 1883, etc.

621. JOHNSON, JOHN. Collection of ecclesiastical laws [translation only]. 2 pts. London, 1720.-New edition by John Baron, 2 vols., Oxford, 1805–51.

622. LYNDWOOD, WILLIAM. Provinciale (seu constitutiones Angliæ) continens constitutiones provinciales archiepiscoporum Cant' a Stephano Langtono ad Henricum Chichleium, cum annotationibus, auctore Gul. Lyndwood. Cui adjiciuntur constitutiones Othonis et Othoboni, cum annotationibus J. de Athona. 2 pts. Oxford, 1679.

The most authoritative digest of medieval canon law of England. Lyndwood's work was completed in 1430, and was first printed at Oxford, without title-page, about 1470-80. This edition was soon followed by others, for which see Dictionary of National Biography, 1893, xxxiv. 341. The best edition is that of 1679. On the value and contents of the work, see Maitland, in English Historical Review, xi. 446-78, and his Roman Canon Law (No. 767), 1–50. John of Ayton's annotations or commentary on the constitutions of Otho and Ottoboni, papal legates in England in the 13th century, was compiled between 1333 and 1348. He was a canon of Lincoln. See J. Brownbill, An Old English Canonist, in the Antiquary, 1891, xxiv. 164-7.

623. MASKELL, WILLIAM. Monumenta ritualia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. 3 vols. London, 1846-47; 2nd edition, Oxford, 1882.

624. OLIVER, GEORGE. Monasticon dioecesis Exoniensis : records illustrating the ancient foundations in Cornwall and Devon. Exeter, 1846.-Additional supplement, 1854.

Valuable; supplements Dugdale (No. 613).

625. PRYNNE, WILLIAM. An exact chronological vindication of our kings' supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all religious affairs [from the establishment of Christianity to the death of Edward I.. 3 vols. in 6. London, 1666, 1665-68.—Vol. iii., with a new title-page: The history of king John, Henry III., and Edward I. London, 1670.-Vol. iii., with another title-page : Antiquæ constitutiones regni Angliæ circa jurisdictionem ecclesiasticam, John-Edward I. London, 1672.

Consists largely of extracts from the charter, close, and patent rolls, chroniclers, etc. These three volumes are usually called Prynne's Records.

626. Records of the northern convocation [1279-1714], ed. G. W. Kitchin. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1907.

627. SPELMAN, HENRY. Concilia, decreta, leges, constitutiones in re ecclesiarum orbis Britannici. 2 vols. London, 1639-64.

Superseded by Wilkins's collection (No. 631).

628. THEINER, AUGUSTIN. Vetera monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum historiam illustrantia, 1216-1547. Rome, 1864. A valuable collection of papal letters, most of which are addressed to bishops of Ireland and Scotland.

629. USSHER, JAMES. Veterum epistolarum Hibernicarum. sylloge. Dublin, 1632.-Another edition, in his Works, iv. 384-572. Dublin, 1847.

Contains fifty letters, mainly on church affairs, about A.D. 600-1200.

630. WHITE, J. W. The constitutions of Otho [1236] London, 1844. pp. 16.

Translation only.

631. *WILKINS, DAVID. Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ et Hiberniæ, A.D. 446-1718. 4 vols. London, 1737.

See Hardy, Catalogue of Materials, i. 754-62. The earlier portions of Wilkins's work are uncritical and incomplete, and are now superseded (to A.D. 870) by the edition of Haddan and Stubbs (No. 616). The most nearly complete collection of Concilia, though far from satisfactory, is Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova Collectio, ed. J. D. Mansi, 31 vols., Florence, etc., 1759-98; reissued and supplemented by Hubert Welter, Paris, 1901, etc. (Introduction, 1903).

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CHAPTER V

MODERN WRITERS

$ 17. GENERAL TREATISES.

a. General History, Nos. 631a-7.

b. Constitutional History, Nos. 638-45a.

c. Legal History, Nos. 646-60a.

a. GENERAL HISTORY.

SEVERAL valuable papers dealing with medieval English history are printed in Mélanges d'Histoire offerts à M. Charles Bémont par ses Amis et ses Elèves, Paris, 1913.

631a. *Cambridge medieval history. Planned by J. B. Bury, edited by H. M. Gwatkin and J. P. Whitney. Cambridge, 1911, etc.

The two volumes that have appeared cover European history, including that of England to about A.D. 800. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliography.

632. GREEN, J. R. History of the English people. 4 vols. London, 1877-80; reprinted, 8 vols., 1895-96, and 1905-08.

An important general history of England, devoting much attention to the social condition of the people. It is an expansion of his Short History of the English People, London, 1874; new edition, 4 vols., 1892-94, and various later editions and reprints.

632a. *HUNT, WILLIAM, and POOLE, R. L. (editors). The political history of England [in twelve volumes]. London, etc., 1905, etc.

I. To 1066, by Thomas Hodgkin: No. 1491a.

II. 1066-1216, by G. B. Adams: No. 2807a.

III. 1216-1377, by T. F. Tout: No. 2845.

IV. 1377-1485, by C. [W. C.] Oman: No. 2878a.

Each volume contains a valuable appendix of authorities.

633. LAPPENBERG, J. M., and PAULI, REINHOLD. Geschichte von England [to 1509]. 5 vols. Hamburg, 1834-58.

Vols. i.-ii., by Lappenberg, were translated by Benjamin Thorpe : History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings (2 vols., London, 1845; new edition, 1881); and History of England under the Norman Kings (Oxford, 1857). Vols. iii.-v., by Pauli, contain the best account of political events from 1154 to 1509. The five volumes give a good survey of the works of the chroniclers.

634. LINGARD, JOHN. A history of England to 1688. 8 vols. London, 1819-30; 5th edition [the last edition revised by the author], 10 vols., 1849; new edition, 10 vols., 1883; reprinted, 1888 and 1902.-Newly abridged and brought down to the accession of George V., by D. H. N. Birt, London, 1912.

A good survey of English history from the Roman Catholic point of view. His account of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries is more useful than the earlier portions of the work.

634a. *OMAN, C. W. C. (editor). A history of England, in seven volumes. London, [1904], etc.

I. Before the Norman conquest, by C. W. C. Oman: No. 1495.

II. Under the Normans and Angevins, by H. W. C. Davis: No. 2810b. III. In the later middle ages, by K. H. Vickers, 1914.

635. PEARSON, C. H. and middle ages. 2 vols.

History of England during the early
London, 1867.

A scholarly work, but the author lays undue stress upon the perpetuity of Roman influences' and the continuity of constitutional development.

636. *RAMSAY, J. H. The foundations of England, or twelve centuries of British history, B.C. 55-A.D. 1154. 2 vols. London, 1898. The Angevin empire, 1154-1216. London, etc., 1903.— The dawn of the constitution, 1216-1307. London, etc., 1908. -The genesis of Lancaster, 1307-99. 2 vols. Oxford, 1913. -Lancaster and York, 1399-1485. 2 vols. Oxford, 1892.

A very useful survey of the main facts of English history, if employed with caution. Devotes much attention to military and financial operations.

637. ST. JOHN, J. A. History of the four conquests of England [B.C. 55-A.D. 1087]. 2 vols. London, 1862.

b. CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.

Some of the most important of the older works concerning English institutions were written on the continent, where the English constitution was regarded as a model worthy to be studied and copied. The most eminent of these writers were