Chapter XX: Front Matter (20)

Amalfi, a copy of the civil law found there, 180

Amerciaments, how settled by Magna Charta, 346

Appeals, where properly to be brought, 301

Appeal for murder, 186

Arabs, erect academies for the study of their laws, 8

Armigeri, 206

Arresting by mittimus, 369

⸺ persons not authorised by warrant, 370

Assemblies, general. The share they held in the government in the
13th century, 33

⸺ manner of admitting members therein, 34

⸺ crimes cognizable thereby, _ibid._

Assessors in Germany, 96

Assize, trial by, 250

⸺ of novel disseisin, 291

⸺ writ of, 292

Athenians, their multiplicity of laws, 4

Ataulphus, 45

Athol, Duke of, 193

Attainder of felony, 348

Attornment, 119

Attorney-General, 318

B

Bail, superior power in the Court of King’s Bench to take it, 301

Baron of England, its original import, 187

⸺ quantum of revenue to qualify for attendance in parliament, 188

Barons, oppose the arbitrary measures of King John, 339

⸺ of the Exchequer, 318

Barones majores & minores, 189

⸺ their rules of descent, 193

⸺ minores privileges obtained by writ of election to parliament,
192

Baronets, by whom first created, 209

Baronies by tenure, 188

⸺ long since worn out among the laity, 190

Barristers at law, 313

Bastards, 23

Becket, Thomas a, 322, 327

Beauchamp, John, the first peer created by patent, 193

Benefices, or grants of land, wherefore so called, 49

⸺ improper, 68

⸺ incorporeal, 78

Beneficiary law, 23

⸺ estates, 113

Berytus, its famous academy, 7

Bishops, how chosen in the infancy of Christianity, 78

⸺ their ancient revenue, 80

⸺ allocate the tithes in aid of the glebe, 81

⸺ retain the general cure of souls, _ibid._

⸺ their seats in parliament, whence derived, 202, 203

Bishop’s court, originally joined to the Sheriff’s, 247

Bishops of Rome, their artful conduct; to obtain the supremacy, 83

⸺ dismember bishoprics, _ibid._

⸺ attempt to over-rule general councils, _ibid._

⸺ practise upon sovereign Princes, 83

⸺ encourages of the civil law, 181

⸺ their bull ineffectual to silence the people of England, when
incensed against Richard II., 182, 183

⸺ assume a dispensing power, 186

⸺ their views respecting England, 272

⸺ lord it over the Kings of Europe, 320

⸺ compel King John to surrender his crown, 338

⸺ dispose of the English benefices by provisorship, 344

Blackstone (Judge), 8, 9

Bodies corporate, 211

Bracton, 130, 180, 225, 293, 299, 314, 349

Brevia testata, 60

Britain, Great. Whence its multiplied laws, 5, 6

⸺ its peculiar advantages, 6

Britton, 180, 349

Brothers, not the heirs one of another, 140

Brunechild, 111

Burghers. See Citizens

Burgundians, 4, 43, 46

Butlerage of England, 72

Bye-Laws, 211