Bodleian Law Library

The Ames Foundation & history of English common law

http://amesfoundation.law.harvard

.edu/

Ames Publications 1914 on 11 volumes to date

Most commonly used are its series of Year Books of Richard II

7 v to date for years 2, 6-13 RII law French text, + Latin text of the

record of the case & English translation of both on facing page

Scholarly introduction, tables, and elaborate indexes

Ames publications also Beale’s Bibliography of Early English

Law Books, & Supplement Lex mercatoria & Legal Pluralism, a

(13th treatise with introduction and commentary

Proceedings Before the Justices of the Peace in the (14th & (15th

The Common and Piepowder Courts of Southampton, 1426–1483

All the before-mentioned titles

Are available via HeinOnline

HeinOnlineGo down the Collections list till you get toSelden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law

Expand: click on title or +

Click on Ames Foundation link

Citations “AS” or similiar not necessarily part

of citation The regnal year will be the clueEg Raynell v Cruwys (1389) YB Pas 12 Ric II, p.182, pl.21 (contrast with usual practice to

include SS or EELR for Selden Society volumes)

Raynell v Cruwys (1389) YB Pas 12 Ric II, p.182, pl.21

If you have page citation use drop down menu

Note doubling of

page numbers…..

Two/double numbers because …First one will take you to original text of the case in Law French …

Second instance of numberWill take you to the English translation

If you don’t have citation It is probably better

to use the scanned indexes to pick up relevant page references

Rather than using the Search within function for each individual scan

These volumes are not all that

Ames Foundation has achieved

http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/digital/ames/index.html

Open Access – free web

Great asset to YB studies

“Statham’s” Abridgement