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Index

Boroughs— Continued

30-32; effect of Conquest upon,
Pt. II., § II., 3; their courts in
later times, 186, 187 and note i;
justices of the peace and coroners
in, 205, note 2; account to Ex-
chequer, 308 and note i; general
condition of, in thirteenth cen-
tury, 364-366; representation of,
in central assembly, 364, 366, 367
and note 2, 373 and note 3; the
electorate in, 392-396

Bot, 24, 25

Bracton, 162, note 2, 191, 228, 229,
277 and note 2, 278, 282, note i,
291, 292, note 4, 326

Britain, before Anglo-Saxon con-
quest, 5, 6; Anglo-Saxon invasion
of, 7-12

Burgage tenure, 32, 33, 97, note I

Cabinet, 137, note i, 434

Canon law, 210, 217-219, 227, 231,

232, 245, 246, 249, note 4
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 59;

rivalry with Archbishop of York,

60, note 2; relations with king,

64; relations with Archbishop of

York settled after Conquest, 129

and notes 2 and 3
Carucage, 356, 402
Ceawlin, 46
Celtic survival in England, 5-13,

passim; 59 and note i
Ceorls, 13; value of their oaths, 21
Chamber, the king's, 52, 124, 316-

319, 322, 323
Chancellor, 176, 212, 213, 216 (and

note 3)-22O, 224, 225, 300; Pt.

Ill, § II., 3, passim; 414
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 176

177, note i, 311
Chancery, as secretariat, 152 and

note 3; Pt III., § II., 3, passim;

394, 421; as court, 211-226, 237,

238; enrolments of, 313 and note

2, 325, 352

Charles L, 335, 336

Christianity, 19, 24, 42; effect of,
upon kingship, 48, 49; see church

Church, grants of bookland to, 39-
42, passim; 50, 55, 57; general
account of, in Anglo-Saxon period,
Pt. I.t § 1, 4; Norman, 84, 85;
effects of the Conquest upon, Pt.

II., § IV.; courts of, Pt. Ill
5; relation to Magna Carta
268 and note i
City, a cathedral borough
Roman cities in Britain, 2
presented in Parliament
Borough
Clergy, in communal courts, i
cease to deal with secular
231, 232; criminous, 243
representation of, 368-370,
376; withdraw from Parliaj
379; share in legislation,
note i
Clerk, case of, 440 and note 2
Cnute, 46, 49, note 2, 51, 5^
note i, 63, note 2, 68, 71,
119, 160, note 2
Coke, Sir Edward, 80, note i,
note i, 237, 282, note i
Commendation, 35-38, 41
Common law, sources of, 143
note 2, 212, note 2, 239-
Hmited, 212-215; relations
equity, 218-220; general ace
of, Pt. III., § L, 4
Common Pleas, Court of, 177-
294 and note 2, 397
Commons, in Parliament, 15
source of law, 237-239; see
control the Council, 299,
become a part of Parliament,
Pt. III., § III, 2-6; gain po^
Pt. Ill, § III., 7; fifteenth
tury development, Pt. III., §
8
Commutation of service, by vas
121, 122; by villeins, 193
Compurgators, 21, 22, 67, 154,
and note 4, 251 and note i, 3:
Confirmatio Cartarum, 281, .
409, 415
Constitutions of Clarendon,
146, 149, 157, 247-249
Convocation, 131, 369; origin
373~376; as a taxing body,
411
Copyhold tenure, 193 and not
194 and note I, 215, note i
Coroners, 160; origin and early
tory of, 196-198; in boroughs,,
note 2; relations torepresenta
and election, 352,355,35&, no1
Cotars, 43 /
Council, king's, 119, 138, 169, i
i, 176, note 3, 179, note 2; jt
diction of, 207-218, 224, not<