Frederic William Maitland

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: Frederic William Maitland

Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1889, is a work by Frederic William Maitland. It explores elements such as Glanville, justiciar and treatise.

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ He does not speak in a tone of authority; in England there is a confused multitude of laws which it were hopeless to define; but he will try to set down some matters of daily importance. He writes as a lawyer keenly interested in legal problems, and not ashamed to confess that he does not know the answer to all the questions that he raises. The book looks more like the work of one of the clerks of the royal court than like that of the chief justiciar, who, during the last years of Henry's reign, can have had little time for writing a legal treatise. ”

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ FLETA, though sometimes loosely used as if it were the name of a person, is really the name of a Latin text-book of English law, which, from internal evidence, seems to have been written in 1290 or thereabouts. ”

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ Possibly we have but the bishop's book as altered by a later hand, or possibly, as Selden suggested, there has been some confusion between the bishop and the contemporary judge whom we call Bracton [q. v.] , but whose name seems really to have been Bratton. The book 'Britton ' might fairly be called a Bracton for practising lawyers, and in fourteenth-century manuscripts the two books are indiscriminately called Bretoun, Brettoune, and the like. ”

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ For Hoveden's testimony as to Glanville's authorship of the treatise see Stubbs's Preface to vol. ii. of Hoveden (Rolls Ser.) The treatise was printed by Tottel without date, about 1554; later editions in 1604, 1673, 1780; English translation by Beames, 1812; published in France by Houard in Traités sur les coutumes Anglo-normandes; in Germany by Phillips, Englisch. Rechtsgesch.; also printed in Acts of Parliament of Scotland, vol. i., and collated with the Regiam Majestatem. A new edition by Sir T. Twiss (Rolls Ser.) is advertised. ”

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ Thenceforward he was the king's right-hand man—'the king's eye' a chronicler calls him (Rich. Dev. p. 385) . In 1182 he was appointed an executor of Henry's will (Gerv. i. 298) , and in the same year he led an army against the Welsh (Ben. i. 289) ”

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1890)

“ Gir. Cambr. v. 300; Cogg. p. 18; Stubbs, Const. Hist. § 144) . After this exploit Glanville becomes prominent. Almost at once he was reappointed to the shrievalty of Yorkshire, which he held thenceforth until the end of the reign, and for some years he was sheriff of Westmoreland also. In 1176 he was a justice in eyre, in 1177 ambassador to the Count of Flanders, in 1179 a justice in eyre and one of the six members of the permanent royal court that was then formed (Ben. i. 108, 136, 239) ; in 1180 he succeeded Richard Lucy as chief justiciar of England (Hov. ii. 215) . ”

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Frederic William Maitland, Dictionary of National Biography… (1886)

“ For election, consecration, and death, see thefollowing Chronicles under years 1268-9, 1275: Gervase of Canterbury (ed. Stubbs) ; Annals of Winchester, Waverley, Osney. Wykes, and Worcester (all in Annales Monastici, ed. Luard, who, vol. ii. p. xxxvii, discusses date of consecration) ”

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