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Statutes -- England -- History -- To 1500

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

MS 156: Statuta Anglie (List of English Statutes), 14th century

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Identifier: MS 156
Contents This manuscript contains a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament, and a Registrum Brevium, which is collection of writs used by legal practitioners, especially in the late Middle Ages.ContentsStatutes: start on f. 1r and ends on f. 29v, and contains the following statutes: Magna Carta,...
Dates: 14th century

MS 157: Statuta Anglie [lost during WWII], 14th century

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Identifier: MS 157
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was lost during the Second World War. It was a 14th-century English manuscript in vellum, written in Latin and in French, which contained a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament. A more detailed description can be found in Catherine Borland's catalogue (1916): MS 157 (external link).

Dates: 14th century