MS. Douce 362

Statutes of England (with some short legal treatises) from Magna Charta as confirmed Feb. 10. 1224/5 (9 Hen. 3: fol. 64) to 1414 (2 Hen. 5): preceded by a Calendar (fol. 4) and lists of the Statutes (foll. 10, 13). The Statutes to the end of Edward II are called the 'Vetera Statuta' (fol. 213): the rest extend, apparently in one hand, to at least 1410 or 1411, with a few additions. The Calendar was probably originally independent and written in about A.D. 1400, at any rate between 1361 (see Jan. 15 'magnus ventus') and 1410 (' Obitus Willelmi Staundon', added on Oct. 21): on Sept. 21 'Obitus Willelmi Band anno Domini m. cccc. xxvj.' It appears to be connected with the neighbourhood of London (Erkenwald honoured, and on Oct. 12 [not 11] 'Sancte Alburge [= Ethelburge] virginis de Berkyng [Barking]' added later); and is Sarum at base.