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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 961 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COURT OF See also:KING'S See also:BENcH.—The See also:principal records of this court are the rolls recording its proceedings and judgments, of which classified lists are given in the See also:Record See also:Office See also:List of Plea Rolls (No. IV.), under the following heads. See also:Curia Regis Rolls (5 See also:Richard I. to 56 See also:Henry III.) include all the rolls of the king's court with the exception of a few See also:Eyre Rolls. Of these the Record See also:Commission printed those for 6, 9, Io Richard I. and i See also:John; and also published in the Abbreviatio Placitorum certain abstracts from a portion of the pleas on these rolls made in the 17th See also:century. For specimens see See also:Selden Society volumes, Select See also:Civil Pleas, edited by W. P. Baildon, and Select Pleas of the See also:Crown, edited by F. W. See also:Maitland, who has also edited for the See also:Pipe See also:Roll Society our rolls of the reign of Richard I. From the end of the reign of Henry III. the rolls of the king's bench and those of the See also:common pleas (see below) have been separated. The former, named See also:Coram Rege Rolls (1 See also:Edward I. to 13 See also:William III.), See also:divide from i See also:Anne into two portions, See also:Judgment Rolls, containing pleas between private persons, and Crown Rolls, containing crown business. References to some pleas on the Coram Rege Rolls will be found in the Abbreviatio Placitorum; the See also:complete roll for 25 Edward I. has been printed by the See also:British Record Society.

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Assize Rolls, &c.—Under this See also:head are grouped rolls containing the proceedings before justices in eyre, of assize, of oyer and terminer, of See also:gaol delivery (a few) and befcre justices sent on See also:special commission. References to some of these will be found in the Abbreviatio Placitorum; and specimens in the Selden Society volumes already mentioned. The Eyre Roll for See also:Gloucestershire, 5 Henry III., has been published by F. W. Maitland. The pleadings taken under writs of Quo Warranto during the See also:period Edward I. to Edward III. were published by the Record Commission. For specimens of Coroners Rolls (Henry III. to Henry VI.) see the Selden Society's See also:volume edited by C. See also:Gross. Baga de Secretis (since 17 Ed. IV.) contains the proceedings in trials for See also:treason or See also:felony held before the court of king's bench or special commissioners. An See also:inventory and See also:calendar will be found in the 3rd, 4th and 5th reports.

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