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[Footnote 12: Good accounts of the institutional
aspects of the Norman-Angevin period are Stubbs,
Constitutional History, I., 315-682, II., 1-164;
Taylor, Origin and Growth of the English
Constitution, I., Bk. 2, Chaps. 2-3; Adams, The
Origin of the English Constitution, Chaps. 1-4; and
White, Making of the English Constitution, 73-119.
Two excellent little books are Stubbs, Early
Plantagenets (London, 1876) and Mrs. J. R. Green,
Henry II. (London, 1892). General accounts will be
found in T. F. Tout, History of England from the
Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward
III., 1216-1377 (London, 1905), and H. W. C. Davis,
England under the Normans and the Angevins (London,
1904). A monumental treatise, though one which
requires a considerable amount of correction, is E.
A. Freeman, History of the Norman Conquest, 6 vols.
(Oxford, 1867-69), and a useful sketch is Freeman,
Short History of the Norman Conquest (3d ed.,
Oxford, 1901). Among extended and more technical
works may be mentioned: F. Pollock and F. W.
Maitland, History of English Law, 2 vols. (2d ed.,
Cambridge, 1898), which, as a study of legal
history and doctrines, supersedes all earlier
works; F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond
(Cambridge, 1897); J. H. Round, Feudal England
(London, 1895); K. Norgate, England under the
Angevin Kings, 2 vols. (London, 1887); ibid., John
Lackland (London, 1902), and J. H. Ramsay, The
Angevin Empire (London, 1903). The text of the
Great Charter is printed in Stubbs, Select
Charters, 296-306. English versions may be found in
G. B. Adams and H. M. Stephens, Select Documents of
English Constitutional History (New York, 1906),
42-52; S. Amos, Primer of the English Constitution
and Government (London, 1895), 189-201; and
University of Pennsylvania Translations and
Reprints (translation by E. P. Cheyney), I., No. 6.
The principal special work on the subject is W. S.
McKechnie, Magna Carta; a Commentary on the Great
Charter of King John (Glasgow, 1905). An
illuminating commentary is contained in Adams,
Origin of the English Constitution, 207-313.]
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