De antiquis legibus liber. Cronica maiorum et vicecomitum Londoniarum et quedam, gue contingebant temporibus illis ab anno mclxxviii an annum mcclxxiv; cum appendice

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FOR THE YEAR Ι 845. President,

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PRE FACE

THE manuscript, known as the Liber do Antiquis Logibus, now deposited in tho Rocord Room, Town Cierk's Ossies, at ilio Guildhali of tho city of London, is a smali solio, nine inchos and a hare in longin and sevon inchos in broadth, tho binding of whito leather, covering Wooden backS, and containing 159 leaves of parchment, paged continuousty With Arabic cyphors. The index prefixod to the volume indicates the successive chapters whichit was originalty intended should compose the volumo ; but the first chaptorand three othors in the body of tho manuscript Wore test blank, thoughsince Written over by matter of later insertion. The original portion ofinis manuscript mill have been writton throughout in Latin in the yoar ofour Lord I 274, 2 E ard I., and the romaindor addod at ditarent interva is in Fronch, Whicli later date Will also apply to the referetices in the margins. A considerable portion of this volume is filled with extracis Dom tho Gosta Regum Anglorum of William, tho monk of Μalmsbury, under tities of tho Writer's own composition. At the top of the pago tho rovorso os folio 63 commenco the Chronicies of tho Mayors and Shorim of London and tho evenis Whicli occurred in thoir times, froin the year II 88 to the y0ar 1274, up to the monili of August, the preparations for the coronation Os Edward I., who landod at Douor tho 2d of that monili, buing tho su siet mattor of thoclosing paragraphs of this valia te portion of iis contenis. Tho titio of tho Book of Ancient Laws is only applicabie to tho chal ters 38 and 44 : thofirst of whicli contatas the regulations proscribed, by the name of Assisse, asto tho inhabitants of London in respect of thoir bulldings and dwellings, and the second tho Provisions made by the Lord Henry tho Κing, son of ΚingJolin, and his coiincit, to amend the Englisti laws, of whicli tho largor portion had boon ordainod in the timo of the Eari of Loicoster, in the year of the Lord 1264, after ino batile of Low0s, Rugiit on Wednosday the four-wenth My of May. In oaeli instance of the Latin name of the ciw of London, Where Writton at fuit lenuli in this manuscripi, tho plural termination

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et quater xx. et xiiii. et xxiid. Blanca, de quibus c. et quater xx. et xiiii. et xxii d. blanca sunt super prodictum Henricum et c. et quater xx. et xiiii. et

Breaute, Who had name Dom a commune of the canton os Goderville, arrondissement of Le Havre, departement of La Seine Inferioure, renderedaccompi of this his dAt on the fame roti, proving his expenditure M a sur- plus of 2li. I. . 4d. blancti money ovor the sa id sum, undor the Κing's writ in providing for the severat armaments and Messos preparatory to his coronation. This accompt will thorofore have extended ovor the years Dom