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The Parliament of Lincoln, 1316
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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In the history of a nation no little importance attaches to the study of the development of its administration, the means with which the social organism provides itself in order to express its will in acts, and to be able to do so with the fairest possible distribution among its members of the strain which action involves. The general course of such development may perhaps be described as the gradual substitution of definite rules for indefinite impulses, of law for equity, of constitutional acts for royal behests. Routine is ever growing and spreading, and becoming more rational as it grows. The rules, at first, are few and simple, but only meet the commonest emergencies, and, however developed the system, the unforeseen is always arising, the hard cases which make good law in the end find new law made to meet them. Everywhere we begin with a person and end with a department.
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page 44 note 1 Warenne, Arundel, and Warwick.
page 45 note 1 The claim of Hugh de Courtenay to the Redvers lands.
page 45 note 2 Rolls of Parliament, i. 350–364.
page 46 note 1 On the roll for the fourth, fifth, and sixth years.
page 46 note 2 Probably a better idea of the personnel of the Commons House in successive parliaments is to be gathered from a study of the enrolments of the writs de expensis on the dorse of the Close Roll than from the returns to the writs of election.
page 47 note 1 Close Roll, 9 Ed. II. m. 22d.
page 48 note 1 Rolls of Parliament, i. 282, 343, 353.
page 48 note 2 Ibid. ii. 218.
page 49 note 1 L.T.R. Memoranda Roll, 31 Ed. I.
page 50 note 1 L. T.R. Memoranda Roll, 12 to 13 Ed. I.
page 50 note 2 Ibid. 27 to 28 Ed. I.
page 50 note 3 In extractis finium de Cancellaria, the Chancery name for the portion of the Originalia Roll, which consists of estreats from the Fine Roll.
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page 52 note 2 Possibly this opinion is partly due to the relative accessibility to modern students of the information contained in the records of the two departments. Calendars and indexes to Chancery records are comparatively abundant, but it is not very easy to find anything you want in Madox.
page 53 note 1 Memoranda de Parliament 1305; Introd. p. xxxvii.
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page 54 note 2 Case of Cecilia de la More, 26 Ed. I.
page 55 note 1 Madox, p. 563.
page 57 note 1 Memoranda de Parliamento 1305; Introd. p. x.