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MAGNA CARTA
COMMEMORATION ESSAYS
MAGNA CARTA
COMMEMORATION
ESSAYS
WITH A PREFACE BY THE
Rt. Hon. VISCOUNT BRYCE, O.M., Etc.
EDITED BY
HENRY ELLIOT MALDEN, M.A.
HON. FELLOW, TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE HON. SECRETARY, ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FOR THE
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Magna Carta Celebration Committee, 1914... vii
Preface Viscount Bryce xi
Introduction The Editor xix
Magna Carta, 12 15- 19 15.. Professor McKechnie 1 ^
Innocent III and the Charter. Professor G. B. Adams 26 ^
Barons and Knights in the Great Charter
Dr, /. H, Round 46 u^
Clause 39... Professor Sir Paul Vinogradoff yS 1^
Per Iudicium Parium vel per Legem Terrae
Professor Powicke 96 l^
Magna Carta and the Common Law. Professor Mcllwain 122
The Influence of Magna Carta on American Constitutional Development.. Dr, H. D, Hazeltine 180
Magna Carta and Spanish MEDiiEVAL Jurisprudence
Senor Rafael Altamira iiy
Financial Records of the Reign of King John
Mr, Hilary J enkinson 244
Index 301
MAGNA CARTA CELEBRATION, 1915.
GENERAL COMMITTEE.
Nominated in 1914.
{Italics indicate University or Society nominating a Representative on the Committee.)
CHAIRMAN:
*The Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.B.A.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY:
*C. H. Firth, LL.D., Litt.D., F.B.A., Regius Professor of Modern Histor…