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THE SCOTTISH KING’S HOUSEHOLD
Nearly all the new Sheriffs of 1305 were English.1 Our
author thinks that the Sheriff should be escheator; the
ordinance of 1305 directed that the Sheriff * execute the office
of escheatry as usual.’ The proposal that the shire should
elect its Sheriff was not a new one in England. In 1258,
it was one of the Provisions of Oxford that Sheriffs should
hold office for a year, and be of the counties for which they
were chosen; in 1259 the Barons of the Exchequer were
directed to choose one out of four persons chosen in the
county court. In 1300, Edward i. ordered that those shires
that wished to elect might do so.
XVII
Finally our author urges the trial of claimants of hereditary
fees, whether they be of the household or not. His last
sentence should perhaps be detached and made to apply to
the whole scheme: ‘ Let the orders be issued in full Parlia¬
ment and not by a smaller council.’
The drafter of this scheme is a person who deserves to be
known.
Notes on Other Contents of the MS. C.C.C.C. 37.
It seems possible that the whole of this collection of
fourteenth century memoranda was not always united in a
single volume, though it must have been so united at an early
date, for the full table of contents is given in a hand that may
well be a contemporary current hand. Parts of the ms. are
foliated in a contemporary hand, as if they had formed
separate tractates.2
The first sixty-five folios include matters relating to calendars
and astronomical tables. The first item is without title, but in
1 Bain’s Calendar, ii. p. xlv.
2 Ff. 32-65 numbered vi-xxxv, ff. 65-75, i-x, ff. 88-93, *‘vi, f. 94 has i,
ff. 95-6 have been cut down to a fraction of their original size, f. 97 has vi,
corr. from viii., f. 98 has vii, f. 99 has viii or viiii, and f. 100 has an x
THE SCOTTISH KING’S HOUSEHOLD
Nearly all the new Sheriffs of 1305 were English.1 Our
author thinks that the Sheriff should be escheator; the
ordinance of 1305 directed that the Sheriff * execute the office
of escheatry as usual.’ The proposal that the shire should
elect its Sheriff was not a new one in England. In 1258,
it was one of the Provisions of Oxford that Sheriffs should
hold office for a year, and be of the counties for which they
were chosen; in 1259 the Barons of the Exchequer were
directed to choose one out of four persons chosen in the
county court. In 1300, Edward i. ordered that those shires
that wished to elect might do so.
XVII
Finally our author urges the trial of claimants of hereditary
fees, whether they be of the household or not. His last
sentence should perhaps be detached and made to apply to
the whole scheme: ‘ Let the orders be issued in full Parlia¬
ment and not by a smaller council.’
The drafter of this scheme is a person who deserves to be
known.
Notes on Other Contents of the MS. C.C.C.C. 37.
It seems possible that the whole of this collection of
fourteenth century memoranda was not always united in a
single volume, though it must have been so united at an early
date, for the full table of contents is given in a hand that may
well be a contemporary current hand. Parts of the ms. are
foliated in a contemporary hand, as if they had formed
separate tractates.2
The first sixty-five folios include matters relating to calendars
and astronomical tables. The first item is without title, but in
1 Bain’s Calendar, ii. p. xlv.
2 Ff. 32-65 numbered vi-xxxv, ff. 65-75, i-x, ff. 88-93, *‘vi, f. 94 has i,
ff. 95-6 have been cut down to a fraction of their original size, f. 97 has vi,
corr. from viii., f. 98 has vii, f. 99 has viii or viiii, and f. 100 has an x
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| Description | Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson -- The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick -- Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait -- The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law -- The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang -- Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme -- A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth -- Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth -- Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft -- Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul -- The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart -- Index. |
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