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Excerpt from Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, Vol. 1: Year XX; Edited and Translated
The transcript which I have mentioned could not have been made from the Lincoln's Inn ms., the Harleian, or the Cambridge ms. Of the reports of the year 20 Edward III., as it differs from all of them. It must therefore have been made either from the Isham ms. Or from some other ms. Of which nothing is known. It has been of some service, though the original cannot have been quite the best of the mss. I have referred' to it as I.
The reports of Hilary Term are in the same form in all the mss. In which they occur. They are evidently all from a common source, and present only the usual variations of reading or clerical errors and omissions. From Easter Term, however, to the end of the year there are two sets of reports, one of which is found in the Lincoln's Inn and Cambridge mss., the other in the Harleian ms. And in that which I have called the Isham transcript. In many instances there are thus two independent reports of the same case; in some instances there are cases in one pair of manuscripts which are not found in the other pair.
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