Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John / With an Historical Introduction

I. COMMENTARIES AND OTHER WORKS ON MAGNA CARTA
(CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED).

• 1. The Mirror of Justices, edited by William Joseph Whittaker (Selden Society); 1895.
• 2. Edward Coke, Second Institute, 1641; 17th edition, 1817.
• 3. Edward Cooke, Magna Charta made in the ninth year of King Henry III. and confirmed by King Edward I. in the twentieth year of his reign; 1684.
• 4. William Blackstone, The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest, to which is prefixed the History of the Charters; 1759.
• 5. Daines Barrington, Observations upon the Statutes from Magna Charta to 21 James I.; 1766.
• 6. Francis Stoughton Sullivan, An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, with a Commentary on Magna Charta; 1772.
• 7. Richard Thomson, An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John; 1829.
• 8. Thaddaeus Lau, Die Entstehungsgeschichte der Magna Charta; 1856.
• 9. Charles Bémont, Chartes des Libertés Anglaises; 1892.
• 10. Boyd C. Barrington, The Magna Charta and other Great Charters of England; 1900.
• 11. Elemér Hantos, The Magna Carta of the English and of the Hungarian Constitution; 1904.

II. CHRONICLES AND ANNALS.

• 1. Annals of Dunstable, edited by Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series); 1866.
• 2. Annals of Waverley, edited by Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series); 1865.
• 3. Benedict Abbot, Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi, edited by William Stubbs (Rolls Series); 1867.
• 4. Jocelyn of Brakelond, Chronica de rebus gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi, edited by John Gage Rokewode (Camden Society); 1840.
• 5. Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, edited by Henry Richards Luard (Rolls Series); 1872.
• 6. Memorials of St. Dunstan, edited by William Stubbs (Bulls Series); 1874.
• 7. Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum, edited by Joseph Stevenson (Rolls Series); 1875.
• 8. Roger of Hoveden, Chronica, edited by William Stubbs (Rolls Series); 1868-1871.
• 9. Roger of Wendover, Chronica sive Flores Historiarum, edited by Henry Octavius Coxe (Eng. Hist. Society); 1841.
• 10. Walter of Coventry, Memoriale, edited by William Stubbs (Rolls Series); 1872.
• 11. Walter of Hemingburgh, Chronicon de Gestis Regum Angliae, edited by Hans Claude Hamilton (Eng. Hist. Society); 1848-9.
• 12. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, edited by William Stubbs (Rolls Series); 1887-9.

III. COLLECTIONS OF STATUTES, CHARTERS, AND TREATIES.

• 1. Statutes of the Realm (Record Commission); 1810-28.
• 2. Statutes at Large.
• 3. Acts of the Parliament of Scotland from 1124 to 1707, edited by Thomas Thomson and Cosmo Innes; 1814-75.
• 4. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi Asservata, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1833.
• 5. Rotuli Litterarum Patentum in Turri Londinensi Asservata, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1835.
• 6. Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservata, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1837.
• 7. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus, edited by Thomas Duffus Hardy (Record Commission); 1835-6.
• 8. Rotuli Parliamentorum; 1832.
• 9. Rotuli Hundredorum (Record Commission); 1812-18.
• 10. Testa de Neville sive Liber Feodorum (Record Commission); 1807.
• 11. The Red Book of the Exchequer, edited by Hubert Hall (Rolls Series); 1896.
• 12. Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis: Liber Albus, Liber Custumarum et Liber Horn, edited by Henry Thomas Riley (Rolls Series); 1859-62.
• 13. Thomas Rymer, Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae, et cujuscunque generis acta publica; 4th edition (Record Commission); 1816-69 (referred to throughout as “New Rymer”).
• 14. Ancient Charters, Royal and Private, edited by John Horace Round (Pipe Roll Society, vol. 10); 1888.
• 15. Jean Luc D’Achery, Vetorum Scriptorum Spicilegium; 1655-77.
• 16. Hemingi Chartularum Ecclesiae Wigornensis, edited by Thomas Hearne; 1723.
• 17. August Potthast, Regesta Pontificum Romanorum; 1874-5.
• 18. Alexandre Teulet, Layettes du Trésor; 1863.
• 19. William Stubbs, Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History; 7th edition, 1890.
• 20. George Walter Prothero, Select Statutes and other Constitutional Documents illustrative of the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.; 1894.
• 21. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution; 1889.
• 22. Walter de Gray Birch, Historical Charters and Constitutional Documents of the City of London; 1887.

IV. COLLECTIONS OF PLEAS, TRIALS, AND OTHER RECORD EVIDENCE.

• 1. Placitorum Abbreviatio, Richard I. to Edward II. (Record Commission); 1811.
• 2. Melville Madison Bigelow, Placita Anglo-Normannica; 1879.
• 3. Bracton’s Note Book: a Collection of Cases, edited by Frederic William Maitland; 1887.
• 4. Thomas Bayly Howell and Thomas Jones Howell, Complete Collection of State Trials; 1809-28 (referred to as “State Trials”).
• 5. Select Pleas of the Crown, edited by Frederic William Maitland (Selden Society); 1888.
• 6. Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts, edited by Frederic William Maitland (Selden Society); 1889.
• 7. Select Pleas of the Forest, edited by George James Turner (Selden Society); 1901.
• 8. Select Pleas, Starrs, and other Records from the Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, edited by James McMullen Rigg (Selden Society); 1902.
• 9. Year Books of the Reign of Edward I., edited by Alfred John Horwood and Luke Owen Pike (Rolls Series); 1863-1901.
• 10. Year Books of Edward II., 1307–1309, edited by Frederic William Maitland (Selden Society); 1903.
• 11. Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twelfth Year of Henry II. (Pipe Roll Society, vol. 9); 1888.
• 12. Thomas Madox, History and Antiquities of the Exchequer of the Kings of England; 2nd edition, 1769 (referred to throughout as “Madox”).
• 13. Thomas Madox, Firma Burgi; 1726.
• 14. Thomas Madox, Baronia Anglica; 1741.

V. LEGAL TREATISES—MEDIEVAL.

• 1. Ranulf Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae.
• 2. Richard, son of Nigel, De necessariis Observantibus Scaccarii Dialogus (commonly called Dialogus de Scaccario), edited by Arthur Hughes, C. G. Crump, and C. Johnson; 1902.
• 3. Henry de Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, edited by Sir Travers Twiss (Rolls Series); 1878-83.
• 4. Fleta, Commentarius Juris Anglicani; edition of 1647.
• 5. Thomas Littleton, Treatise of Tenures; edition of 1841.

VI. LEGAL TREATISES—MODERN.

• 1. William Reynell Anson, The Law and Custom of the Constitution; 2nd edition, 1892.
• 2. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England; edition of 1826.
• 3. Edward Coke, Institutes of the Laws of England; 17th edition, 1817. (The First Institute is generally referred to as “Coke on Littleton.”)
• 4. Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, edited by Alexander Wood Renton; 1897-8.
• 5. Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronae; 1736.
• 6. Edward Jenks, Modern Land Law; 1899.
• 7. John Manwood, A Treatise and Discourse of the Laws of the Forest; 1598.
• 8. Henry John Stephen, Commentaries on the Laws of England; 13th edition, 1899.
• 9. James Bradley Thayer, A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law; 1898.

VII. LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES.

• 1. Melville Madison Bigelow, History of Procedure in England; 1880.
• 2. Heinrich Brunner, Die Entstehung der Schwurgerichte; 1871.
• 3. Edward Creasy, Progress of the English Constitution; 1874.
• 4. Rudolf Gneist, The History of the English Constitution, translated by Philip A. Ashworth; edition of 1891.
• 5. Rudolf Gneist, The English Parliament in its Transformations through a Thousand Years, translated by A. H. Keane; 1887.
• 6. William Searle Holdsworth, A History of English Law, vol. 1; 1903.
• 7. Dudley Julius Medley, A Student’s Manual of English Constitutional History; 2nd edition, 1898.
• 8. Stuart Archibald Moore and Hubert Stuart Moore, The History and Law of Fisheries; 1903.
• 9. Frederic Pollock and Frederic William Maitland, The History of English Law before the time of Edward I.; 1st edition, 1895 (referred to throughout as “Pollock and Maitland”).
• 10. Luke Owen Pike, A Constitutional History of the House of Lords, from original sources; 1894.
• 11. John Reeves, History of English Law; 3rd edition, 1783–4.
• 12. James Fitzjames Stephen, A History of the Criminal Law in England; 1893.
• 13. William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development: (a) vol. 1, 6th edition, 1897; (b) vol. 2, 4th edition, 1894; (c) vol. 3, 5th edition, 1896.
• 14. Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time; 5th edition, 1896.
• 15. Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution; 1898.

VIII. GENERAL HISTORIES.

• 1. Robert Brady, Complete History of England; 1685.
• 2. Henry Care, English Liberties in the Freeborn Subjects’ Inheritance; 1719.
• 3. John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People; edition of 1875.
• 4. Robert Henry, History of Great Britain; 6th edition, 1806.
• 5. John Lingard, A History of England to 1688; 1819-30.
• 6. James Mackintosh, History of England; edition of 1853.
• 7. Goldwin Smith, The United Kingdom: a Political History; 1899.
• 8. James Tyrrell, History of England, 1697–1704.

IX. HISTORIES OF SPECIAL PERIODS.

• 1. Mary Bateson, Mediaeval England (Story of the Nations Series); 1903.
• 2. Edward Augustus Freeman, The Norman Conquest of England; 1870-9.
• 3. Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus; 1882.
• 4. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the Civil War; 1883-4.
• 5. Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages; 7th edition, 1837.
• 6. John Mitchell Kemble, Saxons in England; 1849.
• 7. Kate Norgate, England under Angevin Kings; 1887.
• 8. Kate Norgate, John Lackland; 1902.
• 9. Charles Pearson, A History of England during the Early and Middle Ages; 1867.
• 10. George Walter Prothero, The Life of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester; 1877.
• 11. James Henry Ramsay, The Foundations of England; 1898.
• 12. James Henry Ramsay, The Angevin Empire; 1903.

X. MISCELLANEOUS.

• 1. Robert Brady, A Full and Clear Answer; 1683.
• 2. Émile Boutmy, Etudes de Droit Constitutionnel; 1885.
• 3. Edmund Burke, Works; edition of 1837 (Boston).
• 4. Stephen Dowell, History of Taxation and Taxes in England; 1884.
• 5. Hubert Hall, History of the Customs Revenue in England; 1885.
• 6. Charles Gross, Preface to Select Cases from the Coroners’ Rolls (Selden Society); 1896.
• 7. Gaillard Thomas Lapsley, The County Palatine of Durham; 1900.
• 8. Henry Richards Luard, Preface to vol. 2 of Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (Rolls Series); 1872.
• 9. Achille Luchaire, Communes Françaises, 1890.
• 10. John Luffman, Charters of London; 1793.
• 11. George Neilson, Trial by Combat; 1890.
• 12. John Noorthouck, A New History of London; 1773.
• 13. Jesse Macy, The English Constitution; a Commentary on its nature and growth, 1897.
• 14. Frederic William Maitland, Township and Borough; 1898.
• 15. Frederic William Maitland, in Social England, edited by Henry Duff Trail, vol. 1; 1st edition, 1893.
• 16. Frederic William Maitland, Preface to Select Pleas of the Crown (Selden Society); 1888.
• 17. Frederic William Maitland, Preface to Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts (Selden Society); 1889.
• 18. Frederic William Maitland, Preface to The Mirror of Justices (Selden Society); 1895.
• 19. Charles de Montesquieu, De l’Esprit des Lois; edition of 1750, Edinburgh.
• 20. Frederic Pollock, Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics; 1894.
• 21. James McMullen Rigg, Preface to Select Pleas, Starrs, and other Records from the Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews (Selden Society); 1902.
• 22. Oskar Rössler, Kaiserin Mathilde und das Zeitalter der Anarchie in England; 1897.
• 23. John Horace Round, editorial notes to Ancient Charters, Royal and Private (Pipe Roll Society, vol. 10); 1888.
• 24. John Horace Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville: a Study of the Anarchy; 1892.
• 25. John Horace Round, Feudal England: Historical Studies of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; 1895.
• 26. John Horace Round, The Commune of London and other Studies; 1899.
• 27. Frederic Seebohm, The English Village Community: an Essay on Economic History; 1883.
• 28. William Stubbs, Preface to Walter of Coventry, Memoriale (Rolls Series); 1872.
• 29. George James Turner, Preface to Select Pleas of the Forest (Selden Society); 1901.
• 30. Paul Vinogradoff, Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History; 1892.

XI. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

• 1. George B. Adams, London and the Commune, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for October, 1904; xix. 706.
• 2. Mary Bateson, A London Municipal Collection of the Reign of John, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for July, 1902; xii. 480.
• 3. G. H. Blakesley, Manorial Jurisdiction, in Law Quarterly Review for April, 1889; v. 113.
• 4. Hubert Hall, An Unknown Charter of Liberties, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for April, 1894; ix. 326.
• 5. Edward Jenks, The Story of the Habeas Corpus, in Law Quarterly Review for January, 1902; xviii. 64.
• 6. Edward Jenks, The Myth of Magna Carta, in Independent Review for November, 1904; iv. 260.
• 7. Frederic William Maitland, Review of Dr. Charles Gross’s The Early Historical Influence of the Office of Coroner, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for

  October, 1903; viii. 758.

• 8. Cardinal Manning, The Pope and Magna Charta, in Contemporary Review for December, 1875 (subsequently reprinted 1885, Baltimore).
• 9. George Walter Prothero, An unknown Charter of Liberties, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for January, 1894; ix. 117.
• 10. John Horace Round, An unknown Charter of Liberties, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for April, 1893; viii. 288.
• 11. John Horace Round, The Great Assize, in The Athenaeum for 28th January, 1899; p. 113.
• 12. H. B. Simpson, The Office of Constable, in Engl. Hist. Rev. for October, 1895; x. 625.

XII. REPORTS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND DICTIONARIES.

• 1. Reports from the Lords’ Committee appointed to search the Journals of the House, Rolls of Parliament, and other Records for all matters touching the Dignity of a Peer; 1st Report, 1820.
• 2. Reports from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state of the Public Records of the Kingdom (Record Commission); 1800.
• 3. Report on Manuscripts in Various Collections (Historical Manuscripts Commission); 1901.
• 4. Charles Gross, The Sources and Literature of English History; 1900.
• 5. Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica; 1824.
• 6. William Thomas Lowndes, The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature; 1857-64.
• 7. Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee; 1885-1900.