460

Index

Sheriff—Continued
share in elections to Parliament,
387 and note 2, 392-396; Com-
mons report shortcomings of, 425

Shire, 4; and shire court, Pt. I, § I.,
2, b; relations with early bor-
oughs, 30-33; clergy in court of,
62; its court after Conquest, 103,
104; itinerant justices in, 142 and
note 2; in Henry I.'s reign, 179-
181; later history of, 180,182-184;
early elections in, 355-357; repre-
sented in a central assembly, Pt.
III., § IIL, 3; composition of full
shire cotfit in thirteenth century,
366 and note 3; elections to Par-
liament in, 386-390

Simon de Montfort, 275, 276, 364,
366-368, 392, note i

Slaves, Anglo-Saxon, 7, 10, u, 13,
34, 42, 45; on continent, 78; not
in Normandy, 85; after the Con-
quest, 91-94

Socage tenure, 32 and note i, 94
(and note 2)-97, note I

Sokemen, 32, note i, 44 and note i,
91

Speaker of Commons, 427,428,437-

439» 443

Star Chamber, Court of, 211, note I,
225, note i, 305, note i, 415

Statute law, 226, 237-240, 412-422

Statute of Gloucester (1278), 184,
185, 188, note 2, 191, 278; La-
bourers (1351), 204, note i, 388;
Maintenance and Liveries (1390),
388, note r; Marlborough (1267),
190, note 2, 199, 239; Merchants
* (12^3), «3%HI3; Merton (1236),

\iSfy 185, '239 and note i; Mort-
main (1279), 222 and note 3, 240
and note i> 279; Quia Emptores
(1290), 240 and note i, 279 and
note 3, 280, 370, 378, note r, 413;
Uses (1536), 224, note i; West-
minster II. (1285), 173, 213, 214,
240 and note i, 279; Winchester
(1285), 199

Stephen, 196, 244-246, 261, 262,
266, note i, 343

Stuarts, 169, note i, 211, note i,
291, 292, note 4, 431, 433, 448

Succession to the crown, 46, 47,
265, 266 and note i, 290 and
notes 2 and 3

Suitors of local courts, in Anglo-

. Saxon times, 17, 18 and note I,

38, note i, 66, note I, 67 and no
i; after the Conquest, 102-10
106, 154 and notes 2 and 3; d
crease in numbers in later time
183, 184, 326, 386
Suspending power of the sovereigi
421, 433
T
Tallage, in, 122, 123 and note i
370, note 2, 407, note 3, 409 anc
note 2
Taxation, Anglo-Saxon, 51 and not<
1, 52; in feudal period, Pt. II.
§ IIL, 2; 265, 267, 270, 272, note
2, 273, 295, 321, note i, 352, 356,
357; of clergy, 373~376, 379 and
note i; consent to, by early repre-
sentatives in Parliament, 381 and
note 2; t national, origin of, 401-
407; resistance to, 407 and note 3,
408; Parliament gains control of,
400, note 4, 408-411, 449; rela-
tion to parliamentary legislation,
417 and note 2, 429, 430 and note
2; unlawful methods of, 431, 432
and note I
Tenth and fifteenth, 370, 392, note
2, 403 and note 3, 404 and note i
Thegns, origin of, 13, 14; value of
their oath, 21; their wer, 24, note
i; duties of, 41, 42, 54, 69, 70, 97
Theodore, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 60, 61, 63
Thorpe's case, 439, 440, note i, 444
Tithing, 68, 69, 109, no
Tolls, 33, 51, 83, 112, 405; "evil
toll," 406, 410, 411 and note i
Tourn, sheriff's, 150; origin of, 181
and note 3, 182; 189; inadequacy
of, 195; decline of, 197, 199-203;
affeering juries in, 328
Township, early Anglo-Saxon, 9-11,
14, note 2, 16, note 2, 19, 34 and
note 2; as parish, 6i; as tithing,
no; obligations upon, 329, 330
and note I; and civil parish, 330,
333, 334
Treason, 251, 292, note 2, 424, note
4, 439, 440, 442
Treasurer, 52, 124, 176, 177, 217,
note i, 300, 309, 311
Truce of God, 84 and note 2
Tudors, 169, note i, 176, note 3, 200,
note i, 211, 236, 240, 291, 293,
note i, 305 and note I, 395, note 3,
396, 428, 431, 436, 447, 448