The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark O.3.45
Manuscript Title

Statutes etc

Alternative Title

Statutes etc

James Number 1217
Century 14th
Physical Description

47 lines to a page. In a good hand.

Provenance

Part of the Gale collection, given to T.C.C. by Roger Gale in 1738. B. 47. No. 113.

On the verso of the flyleaf is the price xxd (xv) and several beginnings of deeds in which the name Joh. Punchardoun occurs. On the lower margin of f.4b is a similar scribble with the words Johannes Punchardoun de manerio suo de Jordanstoun et eciam(?) de Preston Lydiard. Also on ff.45b, 46a. Moun. Sir. Henr. Spygurnel and a ces Compaygn. Justic. mre Seygnur le Roy sy pleygne John. de (?) Tecton cum (?) Walton. A Moun. Sir. John Yng

Donor Gale, Roger (1672-1744), Antiquary
Size (cm) 25 x 17
Folio 69 + 2 ff.
Material Parchment
Language Latin
Collation

1 flyleaf. 18-58 66 78 88 (8 canc.) 98 | 1 flyleaf.

IIIF Manifest URL https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.45/manifest.json
Online Since 28/01/2019

Contents

f.1 1. Registrum Brevium (of Edward I.)
Ending on f.16a.
On the same page very faintly written is some macaronic verse
En tempore (?) quand ... tent flurs et frutz parens natura (parere above line
E les oysels ? en forsent touzs cantus dulces prodere.
28 lines: most of them end with the beginnings of Latin hymns.
On the verso are a few other verses in French, also very faint.
Also
f.16b Statuta de Ward' et Releuiis
In the older hand:

2. f.17 Fet asauer
beginning imperfectly in Cap. 3.
Ends f.20a. Expliciunt summe fet a sauer.

3. f.20b Magna Carta

4. f.21b Carta de foresta

5. f.22 Statuta de Marleberge

6. f.23 Stat. Gloucestr.

7. f.24 Stat. prima Westm.

8. f.27 Stat. Prouis. Armorum.

9. f.27b Stat. de Salopebyreg

10. f.28 Stat. de Mertone

11. f.28b Stat. de Judaismo
(Expl. districciones scaccarij.)

12. f.29 Stat. de Scaccario

13. f.29b de feodis non alienandis ad manum mortuam

14. f.29b in quibus casibus Essoǹ… non iacet

15. f.30 Westmon. II

16. f.37 de empcione terrarum

17. f.37 Brefs pledez

18. f.40 De loco Regie prohibicionis

19. f.40 Stat. de Mercatoribus

20. f.40b De diebus in banco

21. f.41 Hengham parua
Note
f.44 Tot sunt feoda militum in Anglia, lx milia cc xv. De istis feodis sunt religios. xxviij milia et xv

22. f.44 Les plez des brefs oue les cas.

23. f.53 Capitula of some of the above statutes

24. f.54 Stat. de Militibus

25. f.54 Armorum

26. f.54b de anno et die bisextili

27. f.54b Entry of pleas in another hand.

28. f.55 Ordre de excepcions followed by Pleas

29. f.60b Two full-page diagrams of hands marked (in French) with chiromantic notes: that on L. is said to be Mayn de femme

30. f.61b Notes (legal) without title, in French

31. f.62 Addiciones Magne Carte
At the bottom of f.62b are these notes
Etas Sarre filie Willi de frome xii annorum et intrat in tercium decimum.
Johannes fil. eiusdem Willi est de etate xj ann. et intrat in xiimum.
A legal note on f.64

32. f.64b Proprietates Regales

33. f.64b De frainch'

34. f.65 Distinctio Sokagii

35. f.65 De casibus

36. f.67 Regule Registri

37. f.67b Responsiones vic. breuibus returnatis

ff.69b and the flyleaf are occupied with miscellaneous notes in two or three hands.

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