[221] Coke on Littleton, book 1. chap. 2. § 13.

[222] Wright on tenures, p. 186. et seq.

[223] Coke’s institutes, part 2. p. 332. Ruffhead, vol. 1. p. 79.

[224] Coke’s institutes, part 2. p. 336.

[225] Hume’s hist. of England, vol. 1. Carte’s hist. 382, 383, 384, 420. Brady’s hist. append.

[226] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. chap. 5. § 3.

[227] Ibid. § 8. and 9.

[228] Coke on Littleton, lib. 3. chap. 13. § 703, 709.

[229] Lib. 3. chap. 13. § 720.

[230] Saintgerman, cap. 50.

[231] Bacon, voc. Fine and Recovery. An. 4. Hen. VII. c. 24. ap. Ruffhead, vol. 2. p. 79.

[232] An. 32. Hen. VIII. c. 36. ap. Ruffhead, vol. 2. p. 296.

[233] Ruffhead, vol. 2. p. 216.

[234] Hottoman. Franco-Gall. Boulainvilliers on the antient parliaments of France. Fortescue de laud. leg. Angl. cap. 34. 36.

[235] Craig, de feud. lib. 1. dieges. 16. Du Cange voc. Dominicum.

[236] Madox, hist. Excheq. Carte’s hist. of England, vol. 1. p. 423.

[237] Carte, ibid. Hume, append. 2. Madox, antiq. of the Excheq. passim.

[238] Firma Burgi, ch. 4. 5. 11.

[239] Bibliotheca politica, Dial. 5. and 10.

[240] Biblioth. polit. 320. 330. 333. 339. 356. 357. 370.

[241] L’Esprit des loix, liv. 11 chap. 6.

[242] Asser, de Gestis Alfredi. Tyrrel, gen. introduct. to the hist. of England.

[243] Lib. 3. cap. 9. fol. 107.

[244] Giannone’s hist. of Naples, lib. 11. chap. 2. Hume’s hist. of England, vol. 2. p. 441.

[245] Dissertatio Seldeni ad Fletam, cap. 7.

[246] Bacon, hist. and polit. discourse on the laws and government of England, part 2. ch. 1. and 2. The reign of Rich. II. in Kennet’s collection of historians.

[247] Hume’s hist. of England, vol. 2.

[248] Camden’s reign of Elizabeth, passim.

[249] Wilson’s life and reign of James I. ap. Kennet.

[250] Bibliotheca politica, dial. 11. Bacon, hist. and political discourse, part 1. chap. 64.

[251] Madox, Antiq. of the Exchequer, vol. 1. p. 197, 198. Baronia Anglica, book 1. chap. 1. Spelman, voc. Baro.

[252] Brady’s introduction, in append. Baronia Anglica, p. 33.

[253] Selden’s titles of honour, part 2. chap. 5. Baronia Anglica, book 1. chap. 2.

[254] Camden, Britan. p. 122.

[255] Selden, tit. Honour, part 2. chap. 5. § 21.

[256] Baronia Anglica, book 2. chap. 1. Selden’s tit. Hon. part 2. chap. 5. § 22.

[257] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. chap. 8. § 159. Baronia Anglica, p. 164. et seq.

[258] Coke on Littleton, p. 166. St. Amand on the legislative power of England, p. 193.

[259] Selden, tit. Hon. part 2. chap. 5. § 27. and 28.

[260] Camden’s Introd. to his Britan. p. 234. et seq. Baronia Anglica. Selden, tit. hon. part 2. chap. 5. § 29. 30. 31.

[261] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 1.

[262] Du Bos, hist. critique de L’etablissments de la monarchie Françoise, tom. 3. 497, &c. Mascou’s hist. of the antient Germans, b. 16. § 36.

[263] Spelman’s treatise of Feuds and Tenures.

[264] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5.

[265] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 10.

[266] Baronia Anglica, p. 150, et seq. Selden, tit. hon. part 2. chap 5. § 8. Bacon, hist. and polit. discourse on the laws of England, part 1. ch. 29.

[267] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. § 135. Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 19.

[268] Robertson’s hist. of Scotland, book 1. p. 68. Essays on Brit. Antiq. Ess. 2.

[269] Gibson, cod. jur. eccles. Angl. vol. 1. p. 143.

[270] Privileges of the Baronage, by Selden, ch. 2. p. 1537 of the edition of his works by Wilkins. Coke’s institute, second part, p. 49. and 50.; third part, p. 26.-31.

[271] Spelman, voc. Armiger. Du Cange, voc. Armigiri.

[272] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 33. Camden’s introd. to his Britan, 242.

[273] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 39.

[274] Spelm. reliq. dissert. de milite. Coke’s inst. part 2. p. 593.

[275] Selden, tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5. § 46. Cotton’s posthumous works.

[276] Madox, Firma Burgi, ch. 1.

[277] Madox, Firma Burgi, ch. 2. Ruffhead, vol. 1. p. 4.

[278] Ruffhead, vol. 1. p. 156.

[279] Gurdon’s history of Parliament. Tyrrel’s introduction to his history. L. L. Anglo Saxon, ap. Wilkins.

[280] History of the common law of England, p. 107.

[281] Biblioth, polit. dial. 6, 7, 8. Hume, vol. 1.

[282] Ruffhead, vol. 1. p. 544.

[283] Spelman, voc. Parlamentum. Hales on Parliaments. Ellys on Temporal Liberty.

[284] Elsringe, on the method of passing bills in Parliament. Gurdon’s hist. of Parliament.

[285] Ruffhead’s preface to the statutes.

[286] Kennet’s English Historians, vol. 2. p. 587, 606. Carte, vol. 2. p. 828. Hume, vol. 2. and 3.

[287] Lord Bacon’s life of Henry VII. ap. Kennet, vol. 2. p. 612.

[288] Irish statutes, vol. 1. p. 23. Coke, 4. instit. chap. 76.

[289] Irish Statutes, p. 48.

[290] Irish Stat. vol. 1. p. 143.

[291] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. ch. 11. § 172.

[292] Bracton, lib. 4. cap. 28.

[293] Reliq. Spelm. 251. Barington on the statutes 270. et seq. Gurdon’s hist. of Court-Baron and Court-Leet, p. 573.

[294] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. chap. 11.

[295] Lib. 2. § 194.

[296] Littleton, § 187, 188.

[297] Littleton, § 174.

[298] Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. ch. 11.

[299] Cap. 42.

[300] Wilkins, Leg. Anglosax.

[301] Formulare Anglicanum, tit. Grants and Manumissions of Villeins.

[302] Hickes. dissert. epist. p. 13. et seq. Brady’s hist. p. 82. Fitzherbert’s natura brevium, p. 187, 189, 190. Cowell’s interpreter, voc. copiehould. Coke on Littleton, lib. 2. chap. 11.

[303] Carte, hist. of England, vol. 2. p. 844. 845. 846.

[304] Fitzherbert’s natura brevium, p. 28. Kitchen on Courts.

[305] Coke on Littleton, lib. 1. chap. 8.

[306] Madox, Hist. of the Excheq. vol. 1. p. 295. Cowell’s Interpreter, voc. Demaine. Spel. Gloss. voc. Dominicum.

[307] Bacon’s discourse on the Laws and Government of England, part 1. chap. 16.

[308] Tyrrel’s general Introduction to his Hist. of England. Hume, append. 1.

[309] Spelm. Gloss. voc. Comitatus, hundredus, et trithinga. Tyrrel’s introduction to his Hist. Carte’s Hist. vol. 1. p. 310. Spelm. life of Alfred. Gurdon’s Hist. of Court Baron and Court Leet.

[310] Gurdon’s hist. of Court Baron and Court Leet. Cowel’s Interpreter, voc. Frank-pledge. Bacon’s Discourse on the Laws and Government of England, part. 1. chap. 23.

[311] Bacon, chap. 24.

[312] Bacon’s discourse on the Laws and Government of England, chap. 25, 26.

[313] Dugdale’s Origines Juridiciales, chap. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

[314] Madox, Hist. of Exchequer, chap. 1.

[315] Madox, Hist. Excheq. Dalrymple on Feudal Property, ch. 7. § 1.

[316] Dugdale, orig. Jurid. ch. 25. 26. Nicholson, præfat. ad leg. Anglo. Sax. Du Cange, voc. Duellum et Juramentum. Spel. voc. Campus et Judicium Dei. Muratori antiq. Ital. Dissertat. 38.

[317] Stiernhook de jure vetusto Sueonum et Gothorum. c. 4. Dissert. on the antiquity of the English Constitution, part. 4. § 4.

[318] Mirroir des Justices, chap. 2.

[319] Tacit. de Mor. Germ. c. 21. L. L. Wal. p. 192. 194. L. L. Anglo, Sax. ap. Wilkins p. 18. 20. 41. Hickes. dissert. Epist. p. 110. Lindenbrog, p. 1404.

[320] Selden’s tit. of Hon. part 2. ch. 5. Hume, vol. 1.

[321] 1 Inst. 76. Bacon on the Government of Engl. p. 75. Saltern de antiq. leg. Brit. c. 8.

[322] Spelman on Feuds and Tenures. ch. 6.

[323] Taylor and Somner on Gavelkind, and Harris in his Hist. of Kent, p. 457.

[324] Spel. gloss. voc. Burghbote et Brughbote.

[325] Tyrrel’s Introd. p. 120. Spel. Reliq. p. 22.

[326] Dr. Brady’s Glossary to his Tracts, p. 3. Spelman on Feuds and Tenures, p. 17. and 18.

[327] Madox, Hist. of the Exchequer, vol. 1. chap. 10. § 4.

[328] Spelm. on Feuds and Tenures, chap. 21.

[329] Wright on tenures, chap. 2.

[330] Hale’s hist. Com. Law, chap. 5, and 7.

[331] Bacon’s hist. and polit. discourse, chap. 44, 45. &c. Tyrrel’s hist.

[332] LL. Anglo Saxon, ap. Wilkins, p. 228. Wright on tenures, p. 66.

[333] P. 69.

[334] LL. Anglo. Saxon. ap. Wilkins. Wright on tenures, p. 72.

[335] Madox, Baronia Angl. p. 25. Seld. tit. hon. part 2. ch. 5.

[336] Dugdale’s orig. jurid. c. 34. Madox, hist. of Excheq. ch. 2. La coutume de Normandie.

[337] Baron Gilbert’s hist. of Excheq. p. 55. Lord Littleton’s hist. of Henry II. 4to. vol. 1. p. 43. 457. Carte, vol. 1. p. 419. 420.

[338] Madox, Excheq. ch. 1. Bacon on the laws and government of England, part 1. ch. 59. and 66. Brady, Carte and Tyrrel.

[339] Hale, hist. com. law, ch. 7. Bacon, hist. and polit. discourse, p. 129. &c.

[340] Tyrrel’s Introduct. to his hist.

[341] Carte, vol. 1. p. 452, 453.

[342] Kennet’s historians, and Carte.

[343] Hale, hist. com. law, chap. 7. Carte, vol. 1. p. 480. et seq.

[344] Carte; and Kennet’s historians.

[345] Kennet’s historians. Hume, vol. 1. p. 243.

[346] Bacon, hist. and polit. disc. p. 103, &c. Carte, vol. 1. p. 525. et seq.

[347] Kennet’s historians.

[348] Hale, hist. com. law, chap. 7. Carte.

[349] Gervas. de Tilbury, dial. de Scaccario.

[350] Madox, hist. of Excheq. ch. 16.

[351] Lib. 9. c. 4.

[352] Coke on Littleton, fol. 153.

[353] Ibid.

[354] Bracton, lib. 4.

[355] Hale’s hist. Com. Law, chap. 7. Dugdale, orig. jurid. p. 27. Hoveden, p. 590.

[356] Hale’s hist. Com. Law, ch. 7.

[357] Fitzherbert, Nat. brev. p. 41.

[358] Dugdale, orig. jurid. chap. 20. Madox, hist. of Exchequer, chap. 3. § 10. Bracton, lib. 3. chap. 10, 11. M. Paris, an. 1176.

[359] 4. Instit. p. 184, 266. Hale, hist. com. law. chap. 7.

[360] 2. Instit. p. 24. et seq. 4. Instit. p. 162. Selden’s notes on Hengham.

[361] Dugdale, orig. jurid. chap. 17.

[362] 4. Institute, p. 70. et seq.

[363] d’Anver’s abrigement, vol. 2.

[364] 4. Institute, p. 79.

[365] Dugdale, orig. jurid. ch. 16. 4. Inst. p. 80.

[366] 4. Inst. p. 79. 80. 84. 88.

[367] Ibid. p. 225. 113. 80. 76.

[368] 4. Inst. p. 155. 79. 206.

[369] 4 Inst. ch. 8. Bacon, hist. and polit. discourse, part. 2. ch. 18.

[370] Baron Gilbert’s history of the Court of Common Pleas. Madox, hist. Excheq. ch. 2. sect. 9. 2 Institute, p. 53. 407. 4 Institute, ch. 8.

[371] 2 Institute, p. 405.

[372] 2. Institute, p. 21, 22.

[373] Bracton, lib. 1. cap. 1. Fortescue de laud. leg. Angliæ, cap. 34.

[374] Baron Gilbert, Hist. of the court of Com. Pleas. 4. Inst. ch. 10.

[375] 2d. Inst. p. 196. 197. 255. 551.

[376] 4th Inst. ch. xi.

[377] 4th Inst. ch. 13.

[378] Hales of the power and jurisdiction of Parliament. Selden of the Judicature of Parliament. See his works vol. 3. 4. Inst. ch. 1.

[379] Giannone’s hist. of Naples, b. 1. Bower’s hist. of the Popes, vol. 1.

[380] Lord Lyttelton’s hist. of Henry II. b. 3.

[381] Daniel, ap. Kennet. Carte.

[382] Hoveden. edit. Savil. 494-549. Mat. Paris. an. 1164. Lord Lyttelton’s hist. of Henry II. book 3. Brady’s history.

[383] Hume, Carte, Lyttelton, &c.

[384] Hale, hist. com. law, chap. 7.

[385] Mare Claus. 386. Kennet’s historians. Hume. Carte.

[386] Brady, Daniel, Tyrrel, and the general histories of England.

[387] Kennet’s historians. Hume. Carte.

[388] Blackstone’s discourse concerning the hist. of the charters. Gurdon’s hist. of Parliament. Hale, hist. com. law, ch. 7.

[389] Sir Robert Atkins on the dispensing power. Bibliotheca Politica. The general histories of England.

[390] Ruffhead, vol. 1.

[391] Lib. 3. p. 129. 137.

[392] Cap. 5.

[393] Lib. 1. cap. 28.

[394] Cap. 5.

[395] 2 Inst. p. 37.

[396] 2 Inst. 38. 41. Barrington on the Statutes, p. 15. 16.

[397] Mirror, cap. 5. sect. 2. Glanvil, lib. 14. cap. 3. Bracton, lib. 3. p. 121. Fleta, lib. 1. cap. 23.

[398] 2 Inst. p. 43. 45.

[399] 2. Institut. p. 48. 49.

[400] 2. Institut. p. 51.

[401] 2 Inst. p. 51. 55.

[402] Father Paul, of beneficiary matters.

[403] 4 Institut.

[404] 2 Inst. p. 46.

[405] 2 Institut. p. 51.-55.