92 CHAPTER IV PRINTED COLLECTIONS OF SOURCES UNDER this head are included both chroniclers and records. For works dealing with their history, see §§ 2, 12. Much was accomplished in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries by Parker, Twysden, Savile, Hearne, and other editors (§ 16a) to make the texts of the medieval chroniclers of England more accessible to students; but their works, judged by our present canons of criticism, were unscholarly. In 1823 the Record Commission entrusted to Henry Petrie the task of editing a new collection of chronicles and other materials of English history extending to the close of Henry VII.'s reign. The work was to comprise about twenty-five volumes. After all the text of the first volume had been prepared and materials had been gathered for other volumes, the work was suspended, in 1835, by order of the commissioners, and volume i. was not published until 1848 (No. 537). In 1855 the master of the rolls, Sir John Romilly, obtained permission to publish the well-known Calendars of State Papers, and in 1857 he was authorised to undertake the series of Chronicles and Memorials (No. 539). The plan of Petrie's Monumenta was abandoned, and it was determined to treat each chronicle or collection of documents as a separate work complete in itself, and to confide it to a competent editor. This series now includes most of the prominent chroniclers of England, and some of them are admirably edited. In 1896 the master of the rolls ceased to undertake new publications of texts, and is now devoting the money at his disposal mainly to the printing of calendars of records. The Rolls Series (which technically includes all the series published by the master of rolls, but in ordinary phrase has come to be applied specifically to the Chronicles and Memorials) has given a new impulse to the study of English history. Its success in this and other directions has in the main been in marked contrast with that of the Record Commissioners' publications (No. 538). Apart from these two series the English government, in the eighteenth century, provided for the publication of Rymer's Fœdera, Domesday Book, and the Rolls of Parliament; a commission created in 1825 issued the State Papers of Henry VIII.'s Reign (11 vols., 1830-52); and three volumes of extracts from the issue rolls were published in 1835-37 under the direction of the comptroller of the receipt of the exchequer (Nos. 1932-3). The services which the government has rendered to historical students have been supplemented by the efforts of learned societies (§ 15). The English Historical Society, the Caxton Society, and the Anglia Christiana Society accomplished some good work in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, but perished from lack of support. The Surtees Society and the Camden Society, established in 1834 and 1838 respectively, have published many volumes of chronicles and records. Within the past thirty years the Pipe Roll Society, the Selden Society, the Canterbury and York Society, and various local record societies have done much to make the sources more accessible. § 14. PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENGLISH 537. *Monumenta historica Britannica. Edited by Henry Petrie, assisted by John Sharpe. Vol. i. [London], 1848. Contains excerpts from Greek and Roman writers; Roman inscriptions; an account of British and Roman coins, with plates; and the following chronicles, or parts thereof, to 1066 :— For the history of Petrie's work, see the preface by T. D. Hardy; and Thomas, Notes of Materials (No. 497), 182-4. 538. *Publications of the record commissioners. London, 1802-69. Several volumes begun by the commissioners were published, under the direction of the master of the rolls, after the expiration of the last commission in 1837. The following are the principal publications of the commissioners; those of the Irish Record Commission are indicated by Catalogues of MSS. (Cottonian, Harleian, and Lansdowne) in the Chartæ Hiberniæ (I.R.C.): No. 2128. Domesday book, introduction, in- Nomina villarum: No. 2158. Palgrave, Original authority of the Parliamentary writs: Nos. 2004, Pedes finium: No. 2035. Placita de quo warranto: No. 2040. Record of Caernarvon: Nos. 2209, Reports of record commissioners : Reports (I.R.C.): No. 490. Rotuli chartarum: No. 2108. Rotuli litterarum patentium: No. 2110. Rotuli Normanniæ: No. 2126. 2III. Rotulorum originalium abbreviatio: Rotulorum patentium et clausorum Testa de Nevill: No. 2161. For fuller lists of the publications of the record commissioners, see Thomas, Handbook (No. 496), 450-60; his Notes (No. 497), 174-88; and No. 493. On the history of the record commissions, see § 12. 539. *Rerum Britannicarum medii ævi scriptores, or chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the middle ages. Published under the direction of the master of the rolls. London, 1858, etc. Thus far there are 99 separate works, in 251 volumes (chronicles, public records, chartularies, year books, etc.). They form, in current phrase, the well-known Rolls Series (so called because the series is published under the direction of the master of the rolls), which also includes many calendars of state papers, patent and close rolls, etc. (1856, etc.), and lists and indexes of public records, 1892, etc.: Nos. 473, 2091a-3a, etc. For a list of the whole series, see Catalogue of Record Publications, Reports of the Historical MSS. Commission, and Reports of the Deputy Keepers, a pamphlet which may be obtained gratis from Wyman and Sons, Fetter Lane, London. See also app. C. § 15. PUBLICATIONS OF SOCIETIES, ETC. b. Local, Nos. 552-72. The brief tables of contents appended to the titles given below include only those publications which deal with medieval history. For additional information concerning such publications, see the Catalogue of the British Museum Library, under Academies '; and Nos. 41, 45, 56-58, 62. For Scottish societies, see C. S. Terry, A Catalogue of the Publications of Scottish Historical and Kindred Clubs and Societies, Glasgow, 1909. The transactions of many of the societies mentioned in § 3 contain public and local records. Extra volumes, separate from their transactions, have also been issued by the following:Architectural and Archæological So- Oxfordshire Archæological Society : No. 163. ciety of Buckinghamshire: No. 116. Bristol and Gloucestershire Society: No. 133. Cambrian Archæological Associa tion: No. 176. Cambridge Antiquarian Society: Cumberland and Westmorland So ciety: No. 124. Cymmrodorion Society: No. 178. ment of Science, etc. No. 126. East Herts Archæological Society: No. 137. Essex Archæological Society: No. 131. Jewish Historical Society of Eng land: No. 108. Kent Archæological Society: No.144. Royal Historical Society: No. 110. Society of Antiquaries of London : Society of Antiquaries of New- Surrey Archæological Society No. Sussex Archæological Society: No. 173. Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society: No. 181. Yorkshire Archæological Society: No. 185. Three of the foregoing societies series Nos. 552, 567, 572. publish separate record a. GENERAL. For the Palæographical Society, see No. 259. Most of the publications of the Bannatyne Club and Maitland Club relate to Scotland, but some of them deal with English affairs: see Nos. 272, 1735, 1748–9, 1784, 2133, 2134, 2142. 540. Anglia Christiana Society. [Publications]. 3 vols. London, 1846-48. Chronicon monasterii de Bello: No. 1751. Giraldus Cambrensis, De instruc 540a. British Academy. tione principum : No. 2242. Liber Eliensis: No. 1372. Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales, ed. Paul Vinogradoff and Frank Morgan. London, 1914, etc. etc. Vol. i. Survey of the honour of Denbigh, 1334. 541. British Record Society. Index Library. London, 1890, Contains mainly indexes of names in records of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1890 this society absorbed the Index Library (London, 1888, etc.) and the Index Society. See Nos. 2039, 2167a, 2189, 2378, 2493, 2705, 2776. 542. *Camden Society. [Publications, two series, 167 vols.] London, 1838-97.-Descriptive catalogue of the first series [105 vols.]. By J. G. Nichols. London, 1862; 2nd edition, 1872. Account of executors: No. 2314. Ancren riwle: No. 2194. Arrivall of Edw. IV.: No. 1799. Camden miscellany: Nos. 1742, 2299, 2522, 2664. Catholicon Anglicum: No. 189. No. 1743. Croniques de London: No. 1763. Deposition of Rich. II. : No. 2759. 2732. Documents of St. Paul's: No. 2517. Knights hospitallers: No. 2199. Letters of Margaret of Anjou, etc. : No. 2233. Liber de antiquis legibus: No. 1773. 2244. Obedientiars of Abingdon: No. 2271. |