of corn in Sicily was, during the praetorship of Sacerdos, five Denarii a Modius; during that of Verres, which immediately succeeded, only two Sesterces: That is, ten times lower; a presumption, or rather a proof, of the very bad state of tillage in ancient times.

[z]See also Knyghton, p. 2444.

[a]M. Paris, p. 586.

[b]Brussel Traité des Fiefs, vol. i. p. 576.

[c]M. Paris, p. 372.

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[i]M. Paris, p. 613.

[k]Brussel, vol. i. p. 622. Du Cange verbo
Judaei.

[p]Rymer, vol. i. p. 228. Spelman, p. 326.

[q]Page 268.

[r]Titles of honour, part 2. chap. 3.

[s]Parliamentary Hist. vol. i. p. 151.

[t]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 1. Walsing p. 43. Trivet, p. 239.

[u]Walsing. p. 44. Trivet, p. 240.

[w]Walsing, p. 44. Trivet, p. 241. M. West. p. 402.

[x]Walsing. p. 45.

[y]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 32, 33.

[z]Spellman’s Gloss. in verbo
Trailbaston.
But Spellman was either mistaken in placing this commission in the fifth year of the king, or it was renewed in 1305. See Rymer, vol. ii. p. 960. Trivet, p. 338. M. West. p. 450.

[a]Walsing. p. 48. Heming. vol. i. p. 6.

[b]T. Wykes, p. 107.

[c]In the year 1290.

[d]Walsing. p. 54. Heming. vol. i. p. 20. Trivet, p. 266.

[e]Trivet, p. 128.

[f]Ann. Waverl. p. 235.

[g]Walsing. p. 46, 47. Heming. vol. i. p. 5. Trivet, p. 248.

[h]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 68. Walsing. p. 46. Trivet, p. 247.

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[i]T. Wykes, p. 105.

[k]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 88. Walsing. p. 47. Trivet, p. 251. T. Wykes, p. 106.

[l]Rymer, p. 92.

[m]Dr. Powell’s Hist. of Wales, p. 344, 345.

[n]Walsing. p. 50. Heming. vol. i. p. 9. Trivet, p. 258. T. Wykes, p. 110.

[o]Heming. vol. i. p. 11. Trivet, p. 257. Ann. Waverl. p. 235.

[p]Heming. vol. i. p. 12. Trivet, p. 259. Ann. Waverl. p. 238. T. Wykes, p. 111. M.

West. p. 411.

[q]Sir J. Wynne, p. 15.

[r]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 149, 150, 174.

[s]Heming. vol. i. p. 16, 17.

[t]Heming. vol. i. p. 29. Trivet, p. 267.

[u]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 266.

[w]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 482.

[x]Heming. vol. i. p. 30. Trivet, p. 268.

[y]Heming. vol. i. p. 36.

[z]Heming. vol. i. p. 31.

[a]Walsing. p. 55.

[b]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 559.

[c]Hoveden, p. 492, 662. M. Paris, p. 109. M. West. p. 256.

[d]P. 662.

[e]Neubr. lib. ii. cap. 4. Knyghton, p. 2392.

[f]Hoveden, p. 811.

[g]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 844.

[[A]
at the end of the volume.

[i]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 539, 845. Walsing. p. 56.

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[[B]
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[l]Page 56. M. West. p. 436. It is said by Hemingford, vol. i. p. 33, that the king

menaced violently the Scotch barons, and forced them to compliance, at least to silence.

[m]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 548.

[n]Walsing. p. 58.

[o]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 529, 545. Walsing. p. 56. Heming. vol. i. p. 33, 34. Trivet, p. 260.

M. West. p. 415.

[p]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 577, 578, 579.

[q]Ibid. p. 546.

[r]Ibid. p. 555, 556.

[s]Ibid. p. 529. Walsing. p. 56, 57.

[t]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 531.

[u]Ibid. p. 573.

[w]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 590, 591, 593, 600.

[x]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 590.

[y]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 603, 605, 606, 608, 615, 616.

[z]Ryley’s Placit. Parl. p. 152, 153.

[*]See note
[C]
at the end of the volume.

[a]Walsing. p. 58. Heming. vol. i. p. 39.

[b]Walsing. p. 58.

[c]Heming. vol. i. p. 40. M. West. p. 419.

[d]Heming. vol. i. p. 40.

[e]Walsing. p. 60. Trivet, p. 274. Chron. Dunst. vol. ii. p. 609.

[f]Trivet, p. 275.

[g]Ibid.

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[h]Trivet, p. 276.

[i]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 619, 620. Walsing. p. 61. Heming. vol. i. p. 42, 43. Trivet, p. 277.

[k]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 620, 622. Walsing. p. 61. Trivet, p. 278.

[l]Heming. vol. i. p. 51.

[m]Chron. Dunst. vol. ii. p. 622.

[n]Walsing. p. 62. Heming. vol. i. p. 55 Trivet, p. 282. Chron. Dunst. vol. ii. p. 622.

[o]Trivet, p. 279.

[p]Heming. vol. i. p. 49.

[q]Trivet, p. 284. Chron. Dunst. vol. ii. p. 642.

[r]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 680, 681, 695, 697. Heming. vol. i. p. 76. Trivet, p. 285.

[s]Cotton’s Abr. p. 11.

[t]Madox’s Baronia Anglica, p. 114.

[u]Madox’s Baronia Anglica, p. 115.

[w]We hear only of one king, Henry II. who took this pains; and the record, called

Liber niger Scaccarii, was the result of it.

[x]Madox, Bar. Ang. p. 116.

[y]Ibid. p. 122. Hist. of Exch. p. 404.

[z]In order to pay the sum of 100,000 marks, as king Richard’s ransom, twenty

shillings were imposed on each knight’s fee. Had the fees remained on the original footing, as settled by the Conqueror, this scutage would have amounted to 90,000

marks, which was nearly the sum required: But we find, that other grievous taxes were imposed to complete it: A certain proof, that many frauds and abuses had prevailed in the roll of knights’ fees.

[a]Chancellor West’s enquiry into the manner of creating peers, p. 43, 46, 47, 55.

[b]In Britann. p. 122.

[c]Spellm. Gloss. in voce
Comes.

[d]Essays on British antiquities. This practice, however, seems to have been more

familiar in Scotland and the kingdoms on the continent, than in England.

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[e]There are instances of princes of the blood who accepted of the office of sheriff.

Spellman in voce
Vicecomes.

[f]Rot. Claus. 38. Hen. III. m. 7. and 12 d.: As also Rot. Claus. 42. Hen. III. m. 1. d.

Prynne’s Pref. to Cotton’s Abridgment.

[g]Brady’s answer to Petyt, from the records, p. 151.

[o. 13.

[i]Ibid. p. 31. from the records. Heming. vol. i. p. 52. M. West. p. 422. Ryley, p. 462.

[k]Madox, Firma Burgi, p. 21.

[o. 1, 2, 3.

[m]The king had not only the power of talliating the inhabitants within his own

demesnes, but that of granting to particular barons the power of talliating the inhabitants within theirs. See Brady’s answer to Petyt, p. 118. Madox’s Hist. of the Exchequer, p. 518.

[n]Writs were issued to about 120 cities and boroughs.

[o]Brady of Boroughs, p. 25, 33, from the records. The writs of the parliament

immediately preceding, remain; and the return of knights is there required, but not a word of the boroughs: A demonstration, that this was the very year in which they commenced. In the year immediately preceding, the taxes were levied by a seeming free consent of each particular borough, beginning with London. Id. p. 31, 32, 33, from the records. Also his answer to Petyt, p. 40, 41.

[p]Reliquia Spellm. p. 64. Prynne’s pref. to Cotton’s Abridg. and the Abridg. passim.

[q]Brady of Boroughs, p. 59, 60.

[r]Ibid. p. 37, 38, from the records, and append. p. 19. Also his append. to his answ. to

Petyt, Record. And his gloss. in Verb.
Communitas Regn.
p. 33.

[s]Ryley’s Placit. Parl. p. 241, 242, &c. Cotton’s Abridg. p. 14.

[t]Brady of Boroughs, p. 52. from the records. There is even an instance in the reign

of Edward III. when the king named all the deputies. Id. answ. to Petyt, p. 161. If he fairly named the most considerable and creditable burgesses, little exception would be taken; as their business was not to check the king, but to reason with him, and consent to his demands. It was not till the reign of Richard II. that the sheriffs were deprived of the power of omitting boroughs at pleasure. See Stat. at large, 5th Richard II. cap.

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[w]In those instances found in Cotton’s abridgement, where the king appears to

answer of himself the petitions of the commons, he probably exerted no more than that power, which was long inherent in the crown, of regulating matters by royal edicts or proclamations. But no durable or general statute seems ever to have been made by the king from the petition of the commons alone, without the assent of the peers. It is more likely that the peers alone, without the commons, would enact statutes.

[x]Brady’s answ. to Petyt, p. 85. from the records.

[y]Cotton’s abridgement, p. 13.

[[E]
at the end of the volume.

[[F]
at the end of the volume.

[b]Archbishop Wake’s State of the church of England, p. 235. Brady of Boroughs, p.

34. Gilbert’s Hist. of the Exch. p. 46.

[c]Ann. Waverl. p. 227, 228. T. Wykes, p. 99, 120.

[d]Gilbert’s Hist. of Exch. p. 51, 54.

[e]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 692. Walsing. p. 64. Heming. vol. i. p. 84. Trivet, p. 286.

[f]Heming. vol. i. p. 75.

[g]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 607. Walsing. p. 66. Heming. vol. i. p. 92.

[h]Rymer, vol. ii. p. 718. Walsing. p. 67. Heming. vol. i. p. 99. Trivet, p. 292.