The order of the extracts is strictly chronological, each being numbered, titled, and dated, and its authority given. The text is modernised, where necessary, to the extent of leaving no difficulties in reading. We shall be most grateful to teachers and students who may send us suggestions for improvement. S. E. WINBOLT. KENNETH BELL. NOTE TO THIS VOLUME (1154-1216). I have to acknowledge, with thanks to Messrs. Chatto & Windus, permission to reprint two extracts from Jocelin de Brakelond from their edition in the King's Classics; to the Clarendon Press, Oxford, permission to reprint passages from Mr. Orpen's translation of the _Song of Dermot_. The history of this period necessitates a rather large proportion of statutes, but the liveliness of style in the _Dialogus de Scaccario_ and the interesting nature of its contents will, I hope, be considered to be sufficient excuse for the number of extracts from that one source. S. M. T. HAILEYBURY, _January 1913_. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION v PART I. STATUTES 1164. CONSTITUTIONS OF CLARENDON 1 1166. ASSIZE OF CLARENDON 3 1170. INQUEST OF SHERIFFS--"THE KING'S OFFICERS AT FAULT" 5 1181. ASSIZE OF ARMS 6 1188. SALADIN TITHE 6 1205. THE LEVYING OF A FORCE 7 1213. CONCESSION OF ENGLAND TO THE POPE 7 1213. SUMMONS TO A COUNCIL AT OXFORD 9 1215. MAGNA CHARTA 9 EXTRACTS FROM THE _Dialogus de Scaccario_, WRITTEN BY RICHARD FITZNEAL, BISHOP OF LONDON IN HENRY II.'S REIGN: (1) THE EXCHEQUER 19 (2) SCUTAGE AND MURDRUM 22 (3) FUSION OF ENGLISH AND NORMANS 23 (4) DANEGELD 24 (5) FORESTS 29 (6) SHERIFFS AND BAILIFFS 29 (7) LIVERIES 30 PART II. MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES 1155. HENRY PUTS HIS HOUSE IN ORDER _Roger de Hoveden_ 31 _circ._ 1155. SUPERSTITIONS OF THE IRISH AND THEIR CHARACTER _Giraldus Cambrensis_ 32 _circ._ 1155. THE PAGANISM OF THE IRISH " 34 1154-7. A TRIBAL DISPUTE _Song of Dermot_ 37 1155. BULL OF POPE ADRIAN II. 39