[ANSTHRLD] Early English Parliment Rolls

[Hillary Greenslade]

Some of you onomastics and history buffs maybe interested in a copy (all 17 volumns) of these
historic English Parliment Rolls, forwarded from another list.  
Enjoy, Hillary 

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> Just in time for the Christmas season, the National
> Archives in London have released the finished
> complete(!) translation of all extant English
> Parliament Rolls from 1270-1503. They will be
> published in a 17 volume set sometime next year by
> Boydell & Brewer, but you can get the whole thing on
> CDRom for 50 pounds. Here's the description from the
> National Archives website: 
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> The Medieval Parliament Rolls contain the official
> records of the English Parliament during the first two
> and a quarter centuries of its existence (c. 1270 to
> 1503). They record the debates held and the decisions
> made in Parliament, as well as the petitions, bills
> and answers, both public and private, which formed the
> basis of acts of Parliament, In 1996, the Leverhulme
> Trust funded the creation of a new edition, replacing
> an eighteenth century text, the Rotuli Parliamentorum
> ( 6 volumes, London, 1767-1783. according to the
> General Editor of the new edition, Professor Chris
> Given-Wilson of St. Andrews University, it is "one of
> the fundamental series of records for the political,
> constitutional, economic, social, religious and legal
> history of England in the later middle ages". For
> Parliament itself, it is the nearest medieval
> equivalent to Hansard that we have and of comparable
> value.
> 
> The new electronic edition provides a full transcript,
> modern English translation and introductory matter,
> critical apparatus, footnotes and bibliographical
> references of a modern scholarly edition. It will
> extend access to users who do not have the linguistic
> or palaeographical skills to consult the original
> documents and allows undergraduates to make use of it
> for special subjects options. 
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