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CONTENTS

OF

VOL. II.

CHAPTER XX.

THE PUBLICATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY RECORDS pages 1-32

A Plan for the Publication of the Rolls of Parliament,

accompanied by such other Records as may illustrate

the ancient Constitution and Policy of the Kingdom

Index to the Rolls of Parliament, Edition of 1765

Ancient Manuscript of the Modus tenendi Parliamentum

Materials for a new Edition of the Parliamentary

Records

The Vetus Codex

1-8

2

6

8-18

11

Letter Books in the Office of the Town Clerk of London
See also Vol. I. p. 180.

Plan of the Work usually denominated "the New Edi-

tion of the Rolls of Parliament".

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CHAPTER XXI.

ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION ENTITLED THE PARLIAMENTARY

WRITS AND WRITS OF MILITARY SUMMONS, TOGETHER WITH

THE RECORDS AND MUNIMENTS, RELATING TO THE SUIT AND

SERVICE DUE AND PERFORMED TO THE KING'S HIGH COURT OF

PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCILS OF THE REALM, OR AFFORDING

EVIDENCE OF ATTENDANCE GIVEN AT PARLIAMENTS AND

COUNCILS

48-55

Extract from the Retrospective Review, October, 1827

Extract from the Edinburgh Review, October, 1827 55-59

Extract from Nicolas-Observations on the State of

pages 65-73

Extract from the Appendix to Remarks submitted by

Mr. Palgrave to Lord Melbourne in Reply to the

Pamphlet of Mr. Nicolas . .

Extract from a Report of a Committee of the Record

Board as to the Utility and Expediency of continuing

the Publication of the Parliamentary Writs. . . 73-76

Extract from a Report of the Proceedings of the

Editor of the Rolls of Parliament for the Year 1830-

1831

Collections for a complete Edition of the Rolls and

Records of Parliament-Tower-Chapter House-

British Museum-Public Library, Cambridge, &c. .

Specimen of Calendar of Returns by Indenture

THE FEDERA

CHAPTER XXII.

Origin and Progress of the Work entitled the Federa

Notices of the original Edition of the Foedera in the

Acta Eruditorum

The Acta Regia

76-88

82

88

89-121

90

90

95. 98. 105

Letter of Mr. Astle respecting Rymer's Work, De-

cember, 1788

The Hague Edition of Rymer's Fœdera.

Report from the Lord's Committees on the Public Re-

cords, April, 1719 . .

Materials from which the Foedera is composed and
Sources from whence they are derived. . . .

Comparative Merits of the different Editions through

which the Foedera has passed

Necessity of a new Edition

The Collectanea of Rymer in the British Museum

Of the present Edition of the Fœdera, its History, and

Execution..

Letters of the Old Man of the Mountain

Reports of Proceedings in collecting Materials for a

Supplement to, and Continuation of, Rymer's Fœ-

dera

Objections brought against the new Edition of the

Fœdera

108. 454

110

118. 454

122-135

135-138

Omissions in the new Edition of Rymer's Fodera . 139-142

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