LibGuides: Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Crime & Law

Online Sources: Crime & Law

Anglo American Legal Tradition (AALT)
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"Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London. Digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives"sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and by the University of Houston Department of History"
Domesday Book
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"Domesday is Britain’s earliest public record. It contains the results of a huge survey of land and landholding commissioned by William I in 1085. Domesday is by the far the most complete record of pre-industrial society to survive anywhere in the world and provides a unique window on the medieval world."
English Medieval Legal Documents Ad 600 - Ad 1535: A Compilation Of Published Sources
Legal History: The Year Books
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"More than 22,000 individual reports or ‘pleas’ have been printed, and others remain in manuscript. This database indexes all year book reports printed in the chronological series for all years between 1268 and 1535, and many of the year book reports printed only in alphabetical abridgements. Of these reports, all 6,901 from 1399 through 1535 have been fully indexed and paraphrased in this database." Compiled by David J. Seipp, Professor of Law at Boston University.

HeinOnline English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1865) This link opens in a new window
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Subscriber: CNUHeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865. It represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. The English Reports, Full Reprint contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim and spans the years 1220 to 1867.

Book Sources: Crime & Law

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Ancient Laws and Institutes of England
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
Bracton's Note Book. A Collection of Cases Decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry the Third
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
Annotated by a Lawyer of That Time, Seemingly by Henry of Bratton
Canon Law in Mediaeval England: An Examination of William Lyndwood's Provinciale by Arthur Ogle
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
Contains: Will of William Lyndwood, Bishop of St. David's, 1442; Deceased 1446 and Documents Bearing on Peckham's Constitution concerning Pluralities
Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici by John Mitchell Kemble
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
6 v. (Reprint)
Domesday Book 24, Staffordshire by John Morris
ISBN: 0850331447
Text and translation edited by John Morris. ; edited from a draft translation prepared by Alison Hawkins and Alex Rumble.
Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the First by William Stubbs
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
Select charters and other illustrations of English constitutional history, from the earliest times to the reign of Edward the First by William Stubbs
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
arranged and edited by William Stubbs.
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Six Books of the Commonwealth by Jean Bodin
ISBN: 0631109307
Abridged and translated by M.J. Tooley
The Reports of Sir Edward Coke
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Call Number: Online - HeinOnline
In Thirteen Parts (New ed.)
6 v. (Reprint) New Jersey: Lawbook Exchange, 2002. (Original) London: J. Butterworth and Son, 1826
Coke, Edward ; Thomas, J. H. ; et al.
Tudor Constitutional Documents, A. D. 1485-1603
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
with an historical commentary, by J. R. Tanner
The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. by G.R. Elton
Call Number: JN181.T32 E4
Women and Murder in Early Modern News Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697 by Randall Martin
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781351872355

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