MS. Bodl. 189
Summary Catalogue no.: 30430
Contents
Abstracts of pleas in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, in Norman French, from Trinity term 1379 to Easter term 1384 and (fol. 27) Trinity term 1388 to Easter term 1389.
The arguments of Walter de Clopton and others are cited.
At the end of the first part is 'quod Tamwell [?]'; at the end of the second part, 'Explicit Annus duodecimus Regis Ricardi Secundi, quod Ricardus Pesture'
An example of the pleas is one (on fol. 20) where the dean and chapter of Lichfield plead for a scire facias against the prior of (Tickford, near) Newport Pagnell for arrears of a pension, Hil. T., 7 Ric. ii = 1384.
Physical Description
Hand(s)
The handwriting changes at the gap in the subject matter
History
Provenance and Acquisition
No. 847 in the Thomas Rawlinson sale, Dec. 14, 1721.
Apparently then bought by Dr. Richard Rawlinson for £1 15s.
It probably therefore came to the Library in 1756: on the inside cover is a note in Rawlinson's hand. The manuscript seems to have been detached from the rest of the Rawlinson collection and to have been inserted in the Bodley collection about A.D. 1800 or a little earlier.
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-12-26: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905)