MS. Hatton 10
Summary Catalogue no.: 4135
Contents
'Accusacions' to 'Worstede'.
Fol. 42v blank.
'Magna Carta' as confirmed by Edward I, 1300
'Carta de Foresta' as confirmed by Edward I
'Sentencia lata super Cartas'
'Prouisiones de Merton'
'Statutum de Marlebergh'
'Statutum Westmonasteriense primum', in French
'Statutum Gloucestriae', in French, cum explanationibus
'Statutum Westmonasteriense secundum'
Statutum de mercatoribus, in French
Statutum Wintonie, in French
Statutum Westmonasteriense tercium
Statutum de religiosis
De Scaccario, in French
Districciones Scaccarii, in French
De finibus
Articuli super cartas, in French
Assisa panis et servisie
Extenta manerii
Assise et consuetudines foreste
De bigamis
De libertatibus perquirendis, in French
Dictum de Kenilworth
De ponderibus, cp. fol. 84
Ordinationes Edward ii, in French
Statutum Eboraci, in French
Statutum de presentibus vocatis ad warantum
De defensione juris
Statutum Circumspecte agatis
Expositio vocabulorum
Statutum de conjunctim feoffatis
Ordinatio foreste
Statutum Exonie, in French
Prerogativa regis
Statutum de justiciariis assignatis
statutum novum
Statutum de militibus
Statutum de moneta, in French
Statutum de vasto
Statutum de champertie et de conspiratoribus, in French and Latin
De ponendis in assisis juratis
Statutum de appellatis
Statutum de prisonibus
Statutum de escaetoribus
De protectionibus non allocandis, in French
De consultationibus
Statutum de finibus et attornatis, here called 'Carliolum primum'
Statutum Carliolum secundum
Statutum Lincolnie, de vicecomitibus, in French
Statutum Westmonasteriense quartum, in French
'De forinsecis vocatis ad warrantum in hustengo London', 9 Edw. i, in French
Statutum de malefactoribus in parcis.
Fols. 95v-96v blank.
Statutes of Edward III
As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following additions: a third statute made at Westminster, 1 Edw. III (fol. 99); 'Statutum apud Westmonasterium editum de stapula facta anno vij°' [Edw. III] (fol. 105); two additional statutes made at Westminster, 10 Edw. III (foll. 108v, 109v); a statute made at York, 12 Edw. III (fol. 110); 'Statutum apud Westmonasterium editum anno terciodecimo' Edw. III, in Latin (fol. 110v). The statute of Northampton, 2 Edw. III, occurs twice (foll. 87, 100).
Statutes of Richard II
Statutes of King Henry IV
As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following additions: an additional chapter to 11 Henry IV.
Statutes of King Henry V
As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following additions: a statute made at Westminster, 5 Henry V (fol. 221); 'Statutum apud Westmonasterium editum anno octavo' Henry V, in Latin (fol. 222); an additional chapter to 1 Henry V.
Statutes of King Henry VI
As printed in Statutes of the Realm, with the following addition: a second statute made at Westminster, 2 Henry VI, in Latin (fol. 230v).
Fols. 288r-289v blank except for rubric for the following item, fol. 289v.
Statutes of King Edward IV
Statutes of King Richard III
Statutes of King Henry VII
The statutes of 4 Henry VII and subsequent years are given in English, the last being that of 11 Henry VII which here ends abruptly in cap. xxvii .
Fols. 380r-381v ruled, otherwise blank. Fols. 382r-389v blank.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Long lines; lead ruling, 40 lines of text per page; pricking on the outer margins. For the Vetera Statuta (fols. 43r-95r), the name of the relevant statute is provided as the heading at the top of each page. In the Nova Statuta (fols. 97r-379v), regnal year serves as the heading of each verso and the relevant king as the heading of each recto. Written space 227 × 165 mm. Running heads: for the Vetera Statuta (fols. 43r-95r), the name of the relevant statute is provided as the heading at the top of each page. In the Nova Statuta (fols. 97r-379v), regnal year serves as the heading of each verso and the relevant king as the heading of each recto.
Hand(s)
One hand; formal anglicana with secretary influence. Malcolm Parkes identifies the same scribe in ten other statute manuscripts: M. B. Parkes, Their Hands before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes: The Lyell Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1999 (London, 2016), 44-45.
Semi-quadrata script is used for the display script.
Decoration
By two hands: one main artist (identified by Scott in other manuscripts), and fols. 328v and 336v by a different artist from the rest of the MS. The borders of these two fols. contain the of arms of Pigot [see provenance].
Fine historiated and other borders.
Fine initials. Borders and major initials on fols. fols. 43r, 97r, 153r, 188r, 210r, 226r, 290r, 328v, 336v. Minor initials (fols. 7-42) at the beginning of each letter of the alphabet, (Vetera Statuta) the beginning of each statute, (Nova Statuta) the beginning of each regnal year.
Some initials inhabited or historiated: fol. 43r (fool), 290r (king with lay and clerical advisers), 336v (king with lay and clerical advisers).
A marginal note in the hand of the original scribe, reading “residuum parte folio sequente,” may be found on fol. 350v. Annotations in an early nineteenth-century hand may be found on fols. 336v, 348r, 350r, and 351r; the same hand is responsible for a note on fol. 6v (one of several end leaves at the start of the manuscript) describing the volume’s contents, which is dated to 1814.
Binding
Contemporary London (?) binding of brown stamped leather over wooden boards (severely worn): panel design: central diaper pattern with latticework stamps, surrounded by alternating stamps of lion passant and six-petalled flower; the tentative attribution to the Half-Stamp Binder (Pächt and Alexander, Scott) should probably be rejected.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Kathleen Scott identified three bifolia containing the Modus tenendi parliamentorum and the Tractatus de senescalcia Anglie as a stray from the present manuscript: now Chicago, Case MS. 32.1; acquired by the Newberry from Bernard Rosenthal in 1960.
The MS ends with statutes from the eleventh year of Henry VII’s reign and thus could have been finished no earlier than 1495/6. Malcolm Parkes identifies the Hatton 10 scribe’s involvement in ten other manuscripts produced between 1470 and 1492.
Produced probably for Thomas Pygot (d. 1520) of Little Horwood and Whaddon, Bucks., who married Elizabeth Iwardby: arms in the borders of fols. 328v and 336v quarterly Pigot and Iwardby. See J. W. Baker, The Men of Court 1440 to 1550 (2012), II. 1278-9, with the caveat that the quartering of arms would suggest the generation after Thomas.
At the top of fol. 7r, “Mr. Pagitt .2.” is written in a late sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand above the main text: unidentified, perhaps a member of the Northamptonshire legal family.
Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton (d. 1670).
Bought, along with most of Hatton’s collection, in 1671 by the Bodleian Library from London bookseller Robert Scot (who had purchased it from the Hatton family itself).
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (15 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-01: Description fully revised.