The Angevins and the Charter (1154-1216) / The Beginning of English Law, the Invasion of Ireland and the Crusades

by Unknown

I have to acknowledge, with thanks to Messrs. Chatto & Windus, permission to reprint two extracts from Jocelin de Brakelond from their edition in the King's Classics; to the Clarendon Press, Oxford, permission to reprint passages from Mr. Orpen's translation of the Song of Dermot. The history of this period necessitates a rather large proportion of statutes, but the liveliness of style in the Dialogus de Scaccario and the interesting nature of its contents will, I hope, be considered to be sufficient excuse for the number of extracts from that one source.

S. M. T.

Haileybury, January 1913.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

			page
Introduction			[v]
PART I. STATUTES
1164	Constitutions of Clarendon		[1]
1166	Assize of Clarendon		[3]
1170	Inquest of Sheriffs—"The King's Officers at Fault"		[5]
1181	Assize of Arms		[6]
1188	Saladin Tithe		[6]
1205	The Levying of a Force		[7]
1213	Concession of England to the Pope		[7]
1213	Summons to a Council at Oxford		[9]
1215	Magna Charta		[9]
	Extracts from theDialogus de Scaccario, written by Richard Fitzneal, Bishop of London in Henry II.'s reign:
	(1) The Exchequer		[19]
	(2) Scutage and Murdrum		[22]
	(3) Fusion of English and Normans		[23]
	(4) Danegeld		[24]
	(5) Forests		[29]
	(6) Sheriffs and Bailiffs		[29]
	(7) Liveries		[30]
PART II. MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES
1155.	Henry puts His House in Order	Roger de Hoveden	[31]
circ. 1155. Superstitions of the Irish and their Character		Giraldus Cambrensis	[32]
circ. 1155. The Paganism of the Irish		"	[34]
1154-57. A Tribal Dispute		Song of Dermot	[37]
1155.	Bull of Pope Adrian II.		[39]
1155-62. Becket's Early Life		Roger of Wendover	[40]
1164.	Dispute Concerning the Constitutions of Clarendon	Roger de Hoveden	[41]
1165.	Becket's Exile	"	[43]
1170.	His Return	"	[45]
1170.	His Saintly Life	"	[46]
1171.	His Death	"	[48]
1168.	Coming of Dermot	Song of Dermot	[49]
1170.	Earl Richard in Ireland	"	[49]
1171-72. Henry II.'s Invasion of Ireland		"	[53]
1172.	Synod of Cashel	Giraldus Cambrensis	[55]
1173.	Disputes of Henry II. and His Sons	Roger de Hoveden	[57]
1174.	Trouble with Scotland	"	[58]
1174.	The Penance of Henry	"	[59]
1175.	End of the Ecclesiastical Dispute	"	[60]
1178.	Albigensian Heresy	"	[61]
1182.	Election of an Abbot	Jocelin de Brakelond	[65]
1185.	John in Ireland	Giraldus Cambrensis	[67]
1187.	Capture of Jerusalem	Geoffrey de Vinsauf	[70]
1189.	Raising Money for the Crusade	Richard of Devizes	[72]
1189.	Laws of the Crusaders	Historical Documents of the Middle Ages	[75]
1190.	The Abbot and the Jews	Jocelin de Brakelond	[75]
1190.	Kings at Messina	Geoffrey de Vinsauf	[76]
1190.	Capture of Messina and Jealousy of Philip	"	[78]
1191.	Capture of Cyprus and Richard's Marriage	Richard of Devizes	[79]
1191.	At Acre	Geoffrey de Vinsauf	[82]
1191.	Return Of Philip	"	[88]
1192.	Richard's Sickness and Truce	Richard of Devizes	[89]
1192-3. Saladin's Chivalry		Geoffrey de Vinsauf	[91]
1192.	Return	"	[92]
1192.	Capture of Richard I.	Roger de Hoveden	[94]
1192.	Release of Richard I.	"	[96]
1191-3. England under the Chancellors		"	[97]
1202.	Capture of Arthur	Roger of Wendover	[100]
1204.	Loss of Normandy	"	[101]
circ. 1204. London		Richard of Devizes	[101]
circ. 1190-1206. The Towns of England		"	[102]
1201-6. John's Grant to the Abbey of Croyland		Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[104]
1207.	Election of Langton	Roger of Wendover	[106]
1208.	The Interdict	"	[108]
1214.	The Battle of Bouvines	Matthew of Westminster	[108]
1214.	Events leading to the Magna Charta	Roger of Wendover	[109]
	King John and the Abbot	Traditional Ballad of the 13th Century	[111]
1216.	The Last Days of King John	Matthew of Westminster	[114]

THE ANGEVINS AND
THE CHARTER

(1154-1216)

PART I. STATUTES 1154-1216

CONSTITUTIONS OF CLARENDON, 1164.