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Excerpt from Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third: Year 16 (First Part), Edited and Translated
Since the appearance of the last volume of Year Books in this series, Sir Frederick Pollock and Professor Maitland have published their admirable History of English Law before the time of Edward I. They have lamented (vol. II. P. 557) that not a hundredth part of the industry that has been spent on Roman legal history has men devoted to our plea to They say also (introd. P. Xxxv) that the first and indispensa ble preliminary to a better legal history than we have of the later middle ages is a new, a complete, a tolerable edition of the Year Books. It may, perhaps, be added that no edition could be even tolerable which contained no reference to the records corresponding with the reports. From the time when I undertook to edit the unpublished Year Books (some thirteen years ago) to the present, this opinion has, to my mind, been con firmed by every case which I have had the good fortune to identify on the rolls. Should, therefore, the work on the Year Books, and the rolls which illustrate them, as now arranged, be continued, I believe that a fresh and abundant source of history will be opened up.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the general rela tion which the plea rolls bear to the reports, as the sub iect has been treated in an article written for the Harvard Law Review.l One of the cases, however, to which I referred was, at the time, unpublished, and appears in the present volume. It is the third report in Hilary Term, to which two records correspond, the first being incomplete, the second in a different form.
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