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MS. Laud Misc. 757 (R)

Summary Catalogue no.: 1036

Contents

Statutes of England (vetera statuta)

Magna Charta. rot. 2.

Charta de Foresta. rot. 2v.

"Sentencia lata," ibid.

"Noui articuli," in French, rot. 3.

Provisiones de Merton. rot. 3v

Statuta de Merleberge (Marlborough). rot. 4.

Statuta de Westmonasterio prima. rot. 4v. In French.

Statuta de Gloucester. rot. 6. In French.

"Explanaciones eorundem." rot. 6v

Statuta de Westmonasterio secunda. ibid.

Capitula of the preceding statutes occupy rot. 1

Statutum de Westmonasterio tertium (Quia emptores). rot. 9.

Statutum de viris religiosis. ibid.

Statutum de mercatoribus. rot. 9v

Statutum de finibus. ibid.

Statutum de Winchester, in French. ibid.

Districtiones Scaccarii, in French. rot. 10.

"Circummspecte agatis." ibid.

Statutum de bigamia. ibid.

Statutum de vocatis ad warrantiam. ibid.

"Compositio monete." ibid.

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: roll
Support: parchment
Extent: 10 membranes
Dimensions (roll): 200.875 (9.75 + 19.75 + 18.75 + 20.5 + 21.125 + 21.5 + 22 + 22.5 + 22.75 + 22.25) × 4 in.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; English

Provenance and Acquisition

Robert Dacres, of the Inner Temple, 1533 [cf. J. Baker, The Men of Court: 1440 to 1550 (2012), Selden Soc. SS 18, I. 557-8].

William Fleetwood, recorder [of London], 1589.

William Laud, 1573–1645 (no date of acquisition)

Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.

Record Sources

Description adapted (Sept. 2024) from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885); with additional reference to published literature as cited.
Quarto Catalogue, col. 534
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 44

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.