The plea rolls of the king's court at Westminster for the terms of 1199 and 1200: pleas of land, dower, advowson and debt, essoins, and the orders of the justices under Geoffrey fitz Peter. They show which families were litigating over which manors in 1200, how the possessory assizes of Glanvill's book worked in practice, and the court sitting on while the king was overseas. No narrative, but the best evidence for the landed society below the barons.
About this source
- Title
- Curia Regis Rolls, Richard I to 2 John
- Author
- Various
- Written
- 1196 to 1201, by the clerks of the king's court
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- 1196 to 1201
- Kind
- Rolls and accounts
Earlier prints of the same rolls exist in F. W. Maitland's Pipe Roll Society volume Three Rolls of the King's Court (1891) and Rotuli Curiae Regis, ed. F. Palgrave (1835), which cover 1194 to 1200; neither was located online in this pass.
Where to read it
Editions
- Curia Regis Rolls of the Reigns of Richard I and John, vol. 1 (Richard I to 2 John), HMSO (1922); not freely online (not freely online)