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Oxford: General.

See Nos. 2568, 2571, 2573.

2779. Collectanea, ed. C. R. L. Fletcher, Montagu Burrows,

and others. Oxford Hist. Soc. Letters relating to Oxford, 14th century, ed. H. H. Henson, i. 1-56.

The university of Oxford in the 12th century, ed. T. E. Holland, ii. 137-92 extracts from various

sources.

The friars preachers v. the university, 1311-13, ed. H. Rashdall, ii. 193-273.

Durham college rolls, 1315-1542,

ed. H. E. D. Blakiston, iii. 1-76;

4 vols. Oxford, 1885–1905.

accounts, letters, etc.

Poems on the riot between town and
gown, 1354-55, ed. Henry Fur-
neaux, iii. 163-87.

Tryvytlam's De laude universitatis
Oxoniæ, ed. H. Furneaux, iii.
188-209: a poem, temp. Hen,
VI. or perhaps earlier.
Description of Oxford, from the

hundred rolls of Oxfordshire,
1279, ed. Rose Graham, iv, 1-98.

2780. *Epistolæ academicæ Oxon. : a collection of letters and other documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford in the fifteenth century, ed. Henry Anstey. Oxford Hist. Soc. 2 vols. Oxford, 1898.

2781. *Munimenta academica, or documents illustrative of academical life and studies at Oxford, ed. Henry Anstey. Rolls Series. 2 vols. London, 1868.

Contains chancellors' and proctors' books (statutes, etc., A.D. 12141504); acts of the chancellor's court, 1434-67; register of the convocation of the university, 1449-63.

2782. Register of the university of Oxford [1449–1622]. By C. W. Boase and Andrew Clark. Oxford Hist. Soc. 2 vols. in 5 pts. Oxford, 1885-89.

2783. *Statutes of the colleges of Oxford, with royal patents of foundation, etc. Printed by desire of her majesty's commissioners for inquiring into the state of the university of Oxford 3 vols. Oxford, etc., 1853.

Oxford Particular Colleges.

2784. Catalogue of the archives in the muniment rooms of All Souls college. By C. T. Martin. London, 1877.

2785. Foundation statutes of Merton college, 1270, with

subsequent ordinances, from the Latin, ed. E. F. Percival. London, 1887.

2786. Notes from the muniments of Magdalen college, 12th to 17th century. By W. D. Macray. Oxford, etc., 1882. See No. 2391.

2786a. Oxford deeds of Balliol college, ed. H. E. Salter. Oxford Hist. Soc. Oxford, 1913.

2787. Register of the members of Magdalen college, Oxford, from the foundation of the college. By J. R. Bloxam. 7 vols. and index. Oxford, 1853-85.-New series [fellows, 1458-1910], by W. D. Macray, 7 vols., London, 1894-1911.

Macray, i. 3-79, prints extracts from registers and rolls, 1454-1520.

2788. Register of the rectors, fellows, and members of Exeter college, Oxford [1318-1893], with a history of the college. By C. W. Boase. New edition. Oxford Hist. Soc. Oxford, 1894.First printed, with illustrative documents, Oxford, 1879; 2nd edition, 1893-94.

2788a. The statutes of Oriel college. London, 1855.

Cambridge.

2789. Ancient laws of the fifteenth century for King's college, Cambridge, and for the public school of Eton college, ed. James Heywood and Thomas Wright. London, 1850.

2790. Documents relating to St. Catharine's college [14731860], ed. Henry Philpott. Cambridge, 1861.

2791. *Documents relating to the university and colleges of Cambridge. Published by direction of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state, etc., of the university and colleges. 3 vols. London, 1852.

Abstracts of public records, i. 1-104. Charters and statutes of colleges, Statuta antiqua, i. 308-453.

vols. ii.-iii.

2792. Early Cambridge university and college statutes in the English language, ed. James Heywood. London, 1855.

This superseded his Collection of Statutes for the University and the Colleges of Cambridge (London, 1840).

2793. Grace book A, containing the proctors' accounts and other records of the university of Cambridge, 1454-88, ed. S. M. Leathes. Cambridge Antiq. Soc., Luard Memorial Series, vol. i. Cambridge, etc., 1897.

Three more grace books, B, г, ▲, edited respectively by Mary Bateson (2 vols.), W. G. Searle, and John Venn, 1903-10, carry the records to 1589.

2794. The privileges of the university of Cambridge. By George Dyer. 2 vols. London, 1824.

Vol. i. consists, in large part, of charters and statutes.

London Lincoln's Inn.

2795. The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn: admissions, 1420-1893, and chapel registers. 2 vols. London, 1896.

2796. The records of the honorable society of Lincoln's Inn : the black books [1422-1845, ed. W. P. Baildon]. 4 vols, London, 1897-1902.

e. COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND AGRICULTURE.

For documents concerning craft and mercantile gilds, see Smith, English Gilds, and Gross, Gild Merchant (Nos. 824, 2214). The modern literature relating to commerce, industry, etc., is examined in §§ 25, 72. For relations with Norway, see Nos. 1523a, 2130a.

2796a. Cartulaire de l'ancienne estaple de Bruges [862-1492]. By L. Gilliodts van Severen. Société d'Emulation de Bruges, Recueil de Chroniques, etc. 4 vols. Bruges, 1904-06.

A calendar; many of the documents throw light on the commercial relations between England and Flanders.

27966. Cely papers (The): selections from the correspondence of the Cely family, merchants of the staple, 1475-88, ed. H. E. Malden. Royal Hist. Soc., [Camden Third Series]. London, 1900.

Cf. No. 3223.

2797. Débat (Le) des hérauts d'armes de France et d'Angleterre, suivi de The debate between the heralds of England and France by John Coke, ed. Paul Meyer. Société des Anciens Textes Français.

Paris, 1877.-Translated by Henry Pyne: England and France in the fifteenth century: the contemporary French tract entitled The debate between the heralds of France and England. London, 1870.

Le Débat des Hérauts was written about 1456 by a Frenchman, to prove the superiority of France over England. The portion dealing with the riches of the two countries is of interest to students of economic history. A response was made in English by John Coke in 1549: The Debate between the Heralds of England and France (London, 1550).

2798. Hanseakten aus England, 1275-1412, ed. Karl Kunze. Verein für Hansische Geschichte, Hansische Geschichtsquellen, vol. vi. Halle, 1891.

Valuable for the commercial history of England, especially for her relations with foreign merchants.

2799. Hansisches Urkundenbuch, vols. i.-iii., A.D. 975–1358, ed. Konstantin Höhlbaum; vols. iv.-vi., 1361-1433, ed. Karl Kunze; vols. viii.-x., 1451-85, ed. Walther Stein. Verein für Hansische Geschichte. Halle, etc., 1876-1907.

Contains many documents concerning English trade.

2800. The libell of Englishe policye, 1436, ed. Wilhelm Hertzberg. Leipsic, 1878.-Other editions: in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, etc., of the English Nation, 1599, i. 187– 208; and Wright's Political Poems, 1861 (No. 2756), ii. 157-205. A plea for the maintenance of England's commercial and naval supremacy.

2801. *Walter of Henley's Husbandry, together with an anonymous Husbandry, Seneschaucie, and Robert Grosseteste's Rules [with a translation]. Edited by Elizabeth Lamond, with an introduction by William Cunningham. [Royal Hist. Soc.] London, etc., 1890.

These four French tracts were compiled in the 13th century, and deal with the management of rural estates. Walter of Henley gives practical directions regarding tillage; the anonymous Husbandry is primarily concerned with the accounts of an estate; the Seneschaucie describes the functions of the steward and other manorial officers; Grosseteste's Rules, written in 1240-41, lay down maxims for the management of the household of the countess of Lincoln. For additions to Cunningham's introduction, see Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., 1895, ix. 215-21; see also his Growth of English Industry and Commerce (No, 1195), vol. i.

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CHAPTER II

MODERN WRITERS

§ 59. GENERAL.

The best general accounts of the history of this period will be found in the works mentioned in § 17, especially Pauli, Geschichte von England; Stubbs, Constitutional History; and Pollock and Maitland, English Law. See also The Political History of England, ed. Hunt and Poole (No. 632a); A History of England, ed. Oman (No. 634a); Ramsay's volumes (No. 636); Palgrave, English Commonwealth (No. 1497); and the bibliographical lists under the names of kings in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Most of the works mentioned in §§ 59-63 deal mainly with political history. Supplementary material concerning political affairs will be found in § 65, parliament; § 68, army and navy; and § 70, the church.

For relations between England and the continent, especially during the Hundred Years' war, see Ernest Lavisse (editor), Histoire de France, 9 vols. in 18, Paris, [1900-11]; Arthur le Moyne de la Borderie, Histoire de Bretagne [to 1715], vols. i.-v., Paris, 1896-1913; Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vols. i.iv., Brussels, 1900-11 (2nd edition of vols. i.-iii., 1902-12, 3rd edition of vol. i., 1909; translated into German by Fritz Arnheim, 4 vols., Gotha, 1899-1913, and into Flemish by R. Delbecq, 2 vols., Ghent, 1902-04). See also P[rosper] Boissonade, Quomodo Comites Engolismenses erga Reges Angliæ et Franciæ se gesserint, 1152-1328, Angoulême, 1893; and Edouard Troplong, De la Fidélité des Gascons aux Anglais, 1152-1453, in Revue d'Histoire Diplomatique, 1902, xvi. 51-68, 238-66, 410-37, 481-521 (reprinted separately, 1902).

2802. BOUTMY, EMILE. Le développement de la constitution et de la société politique en Angleterre. Paris, 1887; new

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