courts (cont.):
ducal 35
earliest 10–12
ecclesiastical 22, 24, 92, 120, 126–8,
133–4, 137–8, 144, 169–70, 210, 238,
333
‘of France’ 164
king’s ‘central’ court, 16–22, 26, 58, 64,
96, 100, 109, 111, 119–20, 126, 130,
133, 135, 137, 139, 153, 159–61, 163,
165, 171, 178
local and provincial 23–4, 26, 28–9, 95,
133, 164, 241
seignorial 22, 43, 48–54, 60, 65–7, 76,
111, 119, 125, 128, 131–34, 154, 159,
162, 164, 168, 209, 316
of towns 43, 55–60, 116, 140
village 53
see alsoadmiralty; assizes; boroughs;
chancery; chivalry; common pleas;
exchequer; eyre; Grand Conseil;
hundreds; justice; justices; king’s bench,
mallus; parlement; parliament; prévôts;
Reichskammergericht; Session; Star
Chamber; shires
Coutumes de Beauvaisis191, 198
see alsoBeaumanoir
coutumiers198, 219–20
Coventry 236
Craig, Sir Thomas 330
Cranmer, Thomas, archbishop of
Canterbury 308
Crecy, battle of 271, 275
Crépi-en-Valois 56, 152
crimes 10, 51, 80, 95, 112, 134, 136, 140,
150, 166, 185, 241–51
capital 241
see alsoarson; assault; felonies; homicide;
rape; robbery
criminal law 22, 50, 60, 63, 92, 97, 127,
244–5
see also justice
Crompton, Richard 317
Cromwell, Thomas, secretary of Henry VIII
308
Crowland, abbot of 196
crown 237, 270, 277–8, 282–3
imperial 91
pleas, see crimes
rights and property 144–5, 169
crusades 64, 74, 85, 113, 118, 136, 143,
147–8, 156, 162, 174, 274
curia regis, see court, king’s
custodes pacis,see keepers of the peace
customary:
law and procedures 22, 72, 164, 195–7,
198, 273
rights of lords 50
tenants 194
customs 62, 65, 67, 100, 191, 193–5,
212–13, 220–1
ancient 220
bad 197, 213
barbarian 12–13
Carolingian 49
of courts 196
duties 116, 176, 256
of England, on obligations of innkeepers
244
feudal 196, 210
of French provinces 219, 289, 321
of German provinces 96
of the king and the realm 119, 128, 181,
184, 195
local 166, 196, 198, 220
of Paris 233
of realm 195, 220, 281
of towns 57, 115
see alsoconsuetudo Anglie
Cyprus, king of 274, 276
damages 183, 243, 245
Dammartin, count of 120
Danegeld 81
Danes in England 27, 29, 45, 80
Dante 5, 262
darrein presentment, assize of 130
Dauphiné, parlement of 167
David I, king of Scotland 192, 199
David II, king of Scotland 274
debt 60, 105, 132, 134, 142, 147, 173,
236
deceit, action for 244
De donis conditionalibus, statute of 188,
235
deeds 20, 32, 110, 152
defamation 137, 242
defensores civitatum 11
delict 152
democracy as a regime 3, 4, 257, 319
see alsopopular state
De Regimine Principum,see government
Despenser, Hugh 221
Devon, county of 217
Dialogus de Scaccario 140
diet and dress, seesumptuary legislation
Digest, seeCorpus Iuris Civilis
Dijon 115
parlementat 288
Dingwall 23
disinherited after the barons’ war 174
dispensation 261
disseisin 98, 129–30, 139, 187
see also novel disseisin374 Index