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together with the availability of possible ‘course texts’ certainly provide circumstantial evidence of law teaching in the early thirteenth century. Parts of Bracton , for example, were available from the early 1220s and then revised during the 1230s, while a set of ‘questions to the court’ ( quaestiones curiae ) intended to stimulate discussion and disputation survive in the contemporary Exchequer
These contemporary statements are most obviously referring to the royal judges (those sitting in the courts of king’s bench and common pleas) and the king’s serjeants and serjeants-at-law who were at times called upon to advise the royal council or bolster the official element in parliament. This group should also include other legal officers such as the barons of the exchequer and the attorney general
required in order to convince the pope, who, besides indicting Edward for his conquest of Scotland in 1296, argued that Alexander Ill’s homage was only for his English estates. To counter this, Edward ordered a comprehensive search of ‘all the rolls and remembrances’ concerning Scottish business, both royal archives (including repositories such as the exchequer and chancery) and monastic records. He also
, a senior royal judge before becoming bishop of Norwich and then Winchester, sided with the barons in their refusal to recognise legitimation by a subsequent marriage, which Pope Alexander III had espoused as canon law. 48 The principal officials of royal government and of the later fourteenth-century prerogative courts of chancery and exchequer chamber, the chancellor and the treasurer, were
––––tes may have St. or Kt. At least tagged to their names.’ 150 Black Dwarf, 4:1 (1820), p. 34. 151 Castlereagh, Canning, Sidmouth and Vansittart. For information on Castlereagh, see pp. 169, 189n.145 and 192n.189. For Sidmouth, see pp. 3, 7 and 10. For more information on George Canning, see note 147 above. Nicholas Vansittart was the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1812 and 1822 and was a close political ally of Castlereagh, often representing him in the House of Commons. 152 One who thinks himself, or wishes to be thought, wise; a pretender to wisdom; a
truth, who attacked others in fairs, markets and public places out of spite and with prior planning, or who impeded the duties of arresting constables, bailiffs, coroners and exchequer officials. Additionally within the jurors’ remit were those who hired or sheltered such wrongdoers, incited or aided their acts, or abused their own power and lordship by protecting them. 81 The articles