distraint 52, 134, 154, 159, 173
districtus47, 49, 52
divorce 13
doléances,cahiers de284–5, 289
Domesday inquest 131, 208, 211, 225
Dominican friars as inquisitors 148
dominium 201
doomsters 24
Dorstadt 205
Dover 123
dower 130, 132, 142, 180, 188, 194, 196,
198, 234–5
dowry 12–13
Dryburgh 47
ducatus 95
Dudley, Edmund 303–4
duel, judicial, see trial by battle
duels 240
dukes 14
Durham 47
bishop of 81
prior of 238
Dutch Republic 323
East Anglia 27–9
ealdormen24, 29
earls 145–6
échevins36, 58, 60
see alsoscabini
economic rights 52
see also legislation
Edgar, king of England 28–9, 296
Edmund, king of England, laws of 22, 30
Edmund, prince 176
Edward ‘the Elder’, king of England 27, 28,
80
Edward ‘the Confessor’, king of England
23, 176, 212–13
so-called ‘laws of’ 80
Edward I, king of England 9, 148, 168,
174–81, 186, 199, 200, 214–15, 220,
223, 232, 234–8, 246, 263
as prince 159, 174
household of 160
Edward II, king of England 175–7, 183,
189, 228, 234, 256, 263, 267–8
Edward III, king of England 189, 230, 239,
256, 262, 263, 274, 281, 284
Edward IV, king of England 231, 284, 299,
303
Edward V, king of England 303
Edward VI, king of England 312
Edward, the Black Prince 263
Eike von Repgow, seeSachsenspiegel
Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of England 56,
138
electors, imperial 100, 105–6, 108
Elizabeth I, queen of England 250, 311–14,
329
Ellesmere, lord, chancellor of England 332
Elyot, Thomas 303, 305–6, 312
emperor as judge 98
empire 317
peace of 83–5
see alsostate
enfranchisement 265
of boroughs 56
charters of 35
England:
burhs in 47
church of 239, 306–7
commonwealth and free state of 327–35
community of 237
constitution of, compared with that of
France 301, 309
laws and customs of 220, 333–4, 337
public body of 303
roads of 81
Starkey’s model constitution for 311
English civil war 328, 334
enquêtes,see inquests
entail 188, 235, 238
entry, writ of 133
entry sur disseisin, action of 188
equity 306–7
essoins 19, 135, 187
estate:
royal 269, 296–300, 302, 312, 319
third or common 285
see also state
estates in land 235–6
estates of people vi, 91, 124, 197, 221–40,
257–8, 260, 263, 265, 270, 287
Christine de Pisan’s scheme of 280
in English parliament 270, 300, 312, 314
general of France 232, 237, 255, 257,
271–2, 275, 283–89, 299, 302, 319,
337
in German Reichstag 106–8
and governments of towns 229
and offices of France 286–8, 320
provincial meetings of, in France 232,
271
three 276–78, 281–86, 289, 302, 312,
314, 316, 327
see also clergy; nobles; orders; personal
status; state; townsmen
établissements,stabilimenta123, 149–50,
165, 169, 173, 180, 186, 197–8, 200,
226, 233–4, 253
see also statutes
Étampes 117–18, 120
bailliof 164
Ethelred, king of England, laws of 29, 80Index 375