[Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors, as well as inconsistencies in the format of legal citations, have been corrected without note. Archaic English spellings have been retained as they appear in the original.] Legal Classic Series VOLUME ONE GLANVILLE Legal Classic Series GLANVILLE Introduction by Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., A.M., LL.B. LITTLETON’S TENURES Introduction by Eugene Wambaugh, LL.D. BRITTON Introduction by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin. MIRROUR OF JUSTICE Introduction by Hon. William C. Robinson. also FLETA, and others. A TRANSLATION OF GLANVILLE BY JOHN BEAMES, ESQ. OF LINCOLN’S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW _TO WHICH ARE ADDED NOTES_ Multa ignoramus, quæ nobis non laterent, si Veterum lectio nobis esset familiaris. MACROB. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH HENRY BEALE, JR., A.M., LL.B. PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. JOHN BYRNE & CO. LAW PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS 1900 COPYRIGHTED, 1900 BY JOHN BYRNE & COMPANY. TO SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, THE FOLLOWING WORK IS INSCRIBED AS A MARK OF THE HIGH RESPECT WITH WHICH HIS ABILITIES, AS A SENATOR, AND HIS TALENTS, AS AN ADVOCATE, ARE VIEWED BY THE TRANSLATOR. A TREATISE ON THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND COMPOSED IN THE TIME OF KING HENRY THE SECOND _The illustrious Ranulph de Glanville, who of all in that age was the most skilled in the Laws of the Realm, and the ancient Customs thereof, then holding the helm of Justice._ _The present work contains those Laws and Customs only, according to which Pleas are determined in the King’s Court, the Exchequer, and before the Justices, wheresoever they may be._ INTRODUCTION. BY JOSEPH HENRY BEALE, JR., A.M., LL.B., PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY. I. RANULPH DE GLANVILLE.