Table of Contents

Introduction - David Carpenter and David Crook and Louise J. Wilkinson
Between Magna Carta and the Parliamentary State: The Fine Rolls of King Henry III, 1216-72 - David Carpenter
The Form and Function of the Originalia Rolls - Paul Dryburgh
The Fine Rolls of Henry III as a Source for the Legal Historian - Paul Brand
The Fine Rolls as Evidence for the Expansion of Royal Justice during the Reign of Henry III - Tony K. Moore
Administering the Irish Fines, 1199-1254: The English Chancery, the Dublin Exchequer and the Seeking of Favours - Beth Hartland
Auditing and Enrolment in Thirteenth-Century Scotland - Alice Taylor
Imitation and Independence in Native Welsh Administrative Culture, c.1180-1280 - Charles Insley
An Inventory of Gifts to King Henry III, 1234-5 - Nicholas Vincent
Another Fine Mess: Evidence for the Resumption of Exchequer Authority in the Minority of Henry III - Nick Barratt
Roger of Wendover, Prior of Belvoir, and the Implementation of the Charter of the Forest, 1225-27 - David Crook
Royal Government and Administration in Post-Evesham England, 1265-70 - Adrian L Jobson
The Church and the King: Canon Law and Kingship in England, 1257-61 - Philippa M. Hoskin
Women in English Local Government: Sheriffs, Castellans and Foresters - Louise J. Wilkinson
The Origins of the Office of Escheator - Scott L. Waugh

About the Author

DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. ADRIAN JOBSON is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy PAUL DRYBURGH is Principal Records Specialist (Medieval) at The National Archives, UK. Professor Philippa Hoskin is Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Fellow Librarian, Corpus Christi College, and Keeper of the Parker Library, University of Cambridge. She is also General Editor of the Lincoln Record Society.

Reviews

This volume serves a dual purpose, in presenting new research while providing a survey of royal administration in England and the other lands of the British Isles under Henry III. As such, it will obviously be of interest to aficionados; but it should also be the first port of call for postgraduates and researchers exploring the records of Henry III's reign for the first time.
*SPECULUM*

This book will serve, deservedly, as an authoritative, and reasonably accessible, introductory guide to the major offices and records of England's thirteenth-century government.
*ROYAL STUDIES JOURNAL*

Will prove a valuable resource for both students and established scholars of the reign of Henry III.
*SEHEPUNKTE*

This excellent collection challenges a number of preconceptions about 13th-century royal government and throws into much clearer relief the environment from which parliament came to evolve. The volume provides an essential addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in the origins of parliament and the remarkably rapid journey from Magna Carta to the parliamentary world.
*PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY*