“He defined the limits of the several temporal courts of the highest jurisdiction, the king’s‐bench, common‐pleas, and exchequer, so that they might not interfere with each other’s proper business.
“He settled the boundaries of the inferior courts, in counties, hundred, and manors.
“He secured the property of the subject, by abolishing all arbitrary taxes and talliages levied without consent of parliament.
“He guarded the common justice of the kingdom from abuses, by giving up the royal prerogative of sending mandates to interfere in private causes.
“He settled the forms, solemnities, and effect of fines levied in the court of common‐pleas.
“He first established a repository for the public records of the kingdom.
“He improved upon the laws of king Alfred, by that great and orderly method of watch and ward, established by the statute of Winchester.
“He settled and reformed many abuses incident to tenures, by the statute of Quia emptores.
“He instituted a speedier way for the recovery of debts, by granting executions, not only upon goods and chattels, but also upon lands, by writ of elegit; a signal benefit to a trading people.
“He effectually provided for the recovery of advowsons as temporal rights.