Legal formulary
Reference code
MSS/0102
Title
Legal formulary
Date
17th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Paper; ff. i + 153.
Folio.
Vellum binding, formerly with green silk ties.
Folio.
Vellum binding, formerly with green silk ties.
Scope and content
Legal guide and formulary for proceedings in the Court of King's Bench, etc., with forms of writs. Main contents:- Instructions for the Court of King's Bench and for an Attorney of the Common Pleas, followed by forms of writs, with office charges, fols. 12-33; forms of royal writs, fols. 38-67v; forms of writs arranged by type, preceded by a list of cities with two (or one) sheriffs, fols. 80-131; abbreviated summaries of two cases relating to debt in Sussex, fols. 132-3v; questions and answers relating to parish business (apprentices, bastard children, etc.), fols. 143-7; partial index of writs, fol. 150v. On fol. 1 names of hundreds in Norfolk from the Nomina Villarum (Guide to the.. PRO, I (1963), 75-6). Fragment of an index, letter A only, relating to places in Norfolk, some pages used for forms of writ, fols. 3-8, 10.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/102
MS 102
MS 102