xxii Bibliography
where it is argued that the duty of attending the shire court had become territorial-
ised, only those freemen attending whose holdings owed suit of court; and "The
History of a Cambridgeshire Manor," which traces the history of an individual
manor from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.
MAITLAND, P. W. Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the
Early History of England. Cambridge, 1897. Reprinted, 1907.
A brilliant discussion of feudalism, the manor, the borough, classes in society,
and land tenures, in the Anglo-Saxon period.
------ English Law and the Renaissance. Cambridge, 1901.
An illuminating discussion of the distinguishing characteristics and constitu-
tional importance of the common law.
------ Justice and Police. London, 1885.
This brief work shows admirably the historical relation between the present
theory and practice in. justice and police and the medieval.
------ (editor). Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester. Intro-
duction, pp. vii.-l London, 1884.
The Introduction contains an excellent account of the procedure in the itin-
erant justice court in the early thirteenth century.
------(editor). "Records of the Parliament at Westminster, in 1305."
[Half-title: Memoranda de ParUamento.] Rolls Series. Introduction,
pp. ix.-cxxi. London, 1893.
The Introduction contains valuable comment upon the early Parliament and
Council.
-----• Roman Canon Law in the Church of England. London, 1898.
Consists of six essays reprinted from the English Historical Review, and the
Law Quarterly Review. Essay iv. contains the best discussion of the matters at
stake between Henry II. and Becket.
------(editor). "Select Pleas in Manorial and other Seignorial Courts."
Publications of the Selden Society, ii. Introduction, pp. xi.-kxvii, London,
1889.
The Introduction gives the best account of private jurisdictions in the thir-
teenth century; also the origin of the sheriffs lourn and of the leet.
------(editor). "Select Pleas of the Crown." Publications of the Selden
Society, i. Introduction, pp. vii.~xxviii. London, 1888.
In the Introduction is an important discussion of the origin and early history
of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas.
------ The Constitutional History of England. Cambridge, 1908.
"Early professorial lectures to law students; often very valuable and orig-
inal."—Gross.
------ Township and Borough. Cambridge, 1898.
Deals primarily with the change of a rural community into an urban commun-
ity, showing the persistence of many rural features and their later influence.