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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 961 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARLIAMENTARY REcoRns.—The proceedings of See also:

parliament were recorded either on a See also:roll prepared for each session, or on detached documents and petitions made up into sessional files. The files have now disappeared, although transcripts of some still exist, and in many cases their constituents can be traced among the See also:Ancient Petitions (see below under See also:SPECIAL COLLECTIONS). The rolls known as Parliament Rolls See also:form a broken See also:series, 18 See also:Edward I. to 48–49 See also:Victoria. The tolls for Edward I. and Edward II. are among the See also:Exchequer records, and the See also:remainder are in the See also:chancery. Of these rolls and files, and of certain pleadings found in the records of the See also:King's See also:Remembrancer, the See also:Record See also:Commission published what was meant to be a See also:complete reprint. But the editors relied partly upon transcripts and partly upon See also:original documents, and it is often difficult to determine the See also:sources from which they See also:drew. So prepared, the Rolls of Parliament (6 vols.) See also:cover the See also:period from 6 Edward I. to I See also:Mary. The roll for 33 Edward I., unknown to them, has been edited (Rolls Series, vol. 98) by F. W. See also:Maitland, with a valuable introduction and appendices; rolls for 18 Edward I. and 12 Edward II. are printed in H. Coles' Documents Illustrative of See also:English See also:History.

The Parliament Roll includes enrolments of statutes among its contents. But from Edward I. to Edward IV. the statutes after receiving the royal assent were also enrolled upon the See also:

Statute Roll (chancery), of which only six rolls now remain. From these rolls and other sources the Record Commission prepared the volumes known as Statutes of the See also:Realm on principles described in the introduction to that See also:work. Unfortunately the editors made use of See also:early printed texts, and See also:translations based upon the inferior texts contained in Exchequer K.R. See also:Miscellaneous Books 9, 10 and ii, and so diminished the value of their work. The Statutes of the Realm extend to the end of the reign of See also:Queen See also:Anne. Since then public See also:general acts have been pub, lished in many forms; private acts ceased to be enrolled upon the Parliament Rolls during the 16th See also:century; the originals are preserved in the See also:House of Lords. The Record See also:Office contains detached documents See also:relating to parliamentary proceeding known as Exchequer Parliamentary and Chancery Parliamentary, but neither class has yet taken a final form.

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