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A Remedy for Sedition, 218 Book of the Duchess (1370), 261, 274 Abridged Etablissements, 112, 113n. Bracton (On the Laws and Customs of Act of Appeals (1533), 337 England), vii, 46n., 52n., 56n., 57n., 60n., Alice Perrers, 185, 186, 197, 206n., 250 63n., 64, 65, 66n., 69, 74n., 75, 76, 77, 78, Amicable Grant (1525), 337 79n., 80, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, An Apologie or Defence of Our Dayes (1589), 94n., 96, 97, 98, 100, 102, 104, 105, 113, 114, 305, 306 115, 116, 117, 118, 119 An English Chronicle (continuation of the Break with Rome, 328, 337 Brut), 10n., 314 British Civil War (1640s), 331, 332 Ancien Regime, 25 Buzones, 68 Andrew Aubery, mayor of London, 129 Angevin Empire, 73, 94 Cade’s Revolt (1450), 312 Angevin England, 38, 78, 99 canon law, 40n., 43n., 49, 52n., 70, 77, 83, Anglo-Norman regnum, 95 98, 109, 116, 117 Anglo-Saxon England, vii, 15, 48n. Canterbury Tales, 283 Anjou, 77, 93, 94, 95, 105, 107, 111n., 112 Capetian conquest of Normandy, 73, 76, 99 Anne Boleyn, 337 Capetian Normandy, 78 98, 99 Anne of Bohemia, 273 Capetians, 96, 107 Anonimalle Chronicle, 249, 252, 253 Chancery rolls, 148 Ansgar the Staller, 21 chanson de geste, 5 Anthony Lucy, 131 charter of Lorris (1155), 109 Appeal, 247, 248 Chivalry, 5, 9, 290 Appellant Crisis, 195, 206 Cicero (Marcus Tullius), 101n., 248, 273, archbishop Stigand, 21, 22 274, 275, 278, 285 Aristotle, 118n., 260 Cistercian Order (Cistercians), 288, 289, ‘articles of the eyre’, 65, 169 290, 304 assize (sitting in judgment), 46n., 56, 57, Cnut, king of Denmark, England, and 58, 59, 65, 68, 75, 86, 98, 104, 211, 213, 215, Norway, 15, 16 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, Commision of Oyer and Terminer, 8, 130n., 225, 227, 228, 231, 232, 239, 241 148, 149, 150, 153, 156, 158, 159n., 168, 176, assize circuits, 215, 224, 225, 229, 232, 234, 211, 226n., 227n., 235 235, 240 Common Law, 7, 27, 28, 32, 38, 40n., 42, assize of Clarendon (1166), 61n., 65 43n., 48, 54, 60, 63, 69, 70, 89, 100, 101, assize of Northampton (1176), 50n., 94n. 102, 105, 109, 110, 111, 112, 139, 240, 251, Avis à un Ami, 84 277, 335, 340 Compurgation, 44, 45 Bardi banking company (of Florence), 146, Confessio amantis, 266, 282 147 conseil (counsel), 104, 247 Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Conseil a un ami (Advice to a Friend), 106 Burghersh, 131 Constantine Donation, 254 Bede, 19, 24, 288, 339 constitutional tradition, vii, 121, 122, 158, Beowulf, 339 327 Bernabò Visconti, 273 Constitutionalism, vii, 15, 101, 121, 246, 333 Black Death, 126n., 162n., 217, 264, 291n., Constitutions of Clarendon (1164), 65 328 Customs of Champagne (Coutume de Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus), Champagne), 110, 115, 119 118n., 272 consuetudo, 28 Book of Cupid, 276, 279 convenciones, 36, 37, 58 344 index

Coutume d’Anjou et Maine, 112 English Reformation (Reformation in coutumes (customs), 104 England, Henrician Reformation), 311, Coutûmes de Beauvaisis, 84, 96, 106, 109, 328, 336, 339 114, 119 enquête par turbe, 107 coutumiers, 32, 77, 84, 96, 102, 103, 104, 105, établissements (establishment), 104 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118 Établissements de Saint Louis, 84, 106, 107, Crowland Continuation, 324 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118, 119 curia (court), 46n., 104 Ethelred II, 19 custom, vii, 17, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, Evesham, battle of (August 4, 1265), 191, 36, 38, 50, 62n., 66, 67n., 86, 94, 96, 98, 192n. 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, Falle of Religious Houses, 305 130, 136, 138, 207n., 219, 231, 239, 281, fet assaver (‘let it be known’), 104, 105, 114, 327, 336 115, 118, 119 First Crusade (1095–1099), 22 Danelaw, 19 Fleta, 104, 118 Darrein Presentment, 58, 59, 74, 85 Forced Loan (1626–1627), 337 Decretum, 105 Francis Trigge, 305, 306 de civile dominio, 253, 255, 256, 260 de feodo et vadio, 91 general eyre, 7, 124, 138, 139, 140, 153, 154, De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Anglicanis, 158, 169, 212, 213, 223n. 75n., 85 General Proscription of 1522, 337 De re publica, 274 gentry, vii, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22, 37, 39, 68, 164, de stabilia, 88, 89n. 166, 216, 238, 241, 249, 250, 313, 340, 341 de universalibus, 256 Geoffrey Chaucer, viii, 3, 243, 244, 245, 246, Despenser’s crusade (1383), 195 253, 261, 263, 272, 273, 274, 274, 276, 277, Despensers, the, 179 278, 279, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286 Dialogue of the Exchequer, 61n., 82, 94 Geoffrey of Anjou, 94 disendowment, viii, 190, 203, 204, 205, 207, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 10, 291n. 208 Gerald of Wales, 254 Dissolution, 290, 297, 303, 304, 305, 306, Gest of Robin Hood, 188 308, 337, 339 Gesta Henrici Quinti, 208n., 209 Domesday Inquest (Survey, Book), 18, 20, Gilbert Pipard, 94 21, 22, 33, 48, 300 Giovanni Boccaccio, 273, 274 drois (laws or rights), 104 Glanvill (treatise and author (Ranulf de Droit commun, 110 Glanvill)), 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 37n., 40n., 43n., 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56n., 57, 64, 65, Edward, Prince of Wales (the Black 66, 74, 75, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, Prince), 124, 171n., 226 93, 96, 102, 105, 113 Edward the Confessor, 16, 19, 57 Godly Queene Hester, 305 Edward I of England, 7, 20, 129n., 136, 186, Good Parliament of 1376, 162, 178, 181, 183, 201 185, 186, 195n., 197, 200, 202, 203, 206, Edward II of England, 15, 25, 166, 196, 197, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 264, 333, 334 198, 201, 225 Grand Assize, 43n., 54, 59, 60, 82 Edward III of England, 13, 121, 123, 124, 129, Gratian, Roman Emperor (375–383), 105, 130, 136, 139, 136, 148, 161, 162, 164, 166, 117n. 167, 169, 173, 177, 179, 180, 182, 185, 187, Great Statute of Purveyance, 162 214, 220, 225, 249, 291, 292, 338, 342 Gregory of Tours, 24 Edward IV of England, 13, 229n., 314 Guillaume de Deguilleville, 261 Edward V of England, 298, 299, 315 Edward VI of England, 304, 341 Habitus, 28, 32, 37n., 70, 279 Edward Hall, 337 Havelock the Dane, 11 Elizabeth I of England, 301n., 305, 327, 342 Henry I of England, 15, 16, 29, 62, 66n., 73, Elizabethan England, 327, 341 91, 93, 95, 96