placitum Dei 69
plaintes et doléances 271
plaints, see complaints
Plato 327
pleading-contest 20
plea rolls 139, 198, 242, 253
pleas, placita, plaids23, 25, 28, 30, 41, 59,
62, 77, 104, 116
before the king 16–22, 133, 162
eyre for all pleas 134
king’s pleas, see crimes
in parliament 181
by plaint or bill 184
spiritual 125
of the sword 124
podestà 262
Pointoise 163
abbey 206
poisoning 85
Poitiers 52, 56, 70, 115
Alphonse of 167–8, 218–19, 242
battle of 255, 275
Saint-Cyprian abbey at 52
Sir Philip de 237
Poitou 118, 149, 167, 275
Alphonse, count of 148–9
French conquest of 115
monks of 144
seneschal of 164
state of 143
Pole, Michael de la, chancellor of England
and earl of Suffolk 267
Pole, Reginald, cardinal and archbishop of
Canterbury 307–311
policing agreement 103
political:
communication 185
community 262
continuity 252–7
liberty 215, 218
and regal rule 300
regime 259, 272
rights 264
science 272, 320
politics 191
and justice 171
polity (politeia,policie) 4, 257–8, 266,
272–4, 280, 292, 296, 328–9
Carolingian 76
French 281
mixed 258
and state 333
Swiss 105
poll taxes 230, 264
Pomerania, Bogislav, duke of 104
Ponet, John, bishop of Winchester 313
Pont-Audemer 56
Pont-de-l’Arche 124
Pontlevoy, monastery of 55
poor 73, 259
relief of 307, 309, 311
special protection for 121
popular:
consent 261
government 258
state (popularis status,regimine populari)
3–4, 319
Portchester, constable of 181
Pot, Philip 284, 321
prayers for the peace and stability of king
and kingdom 40, 60, 83, 111, 202
precaria 20
prerogatives, imperial or royal 91, 140
see also crown
prévôts,prepositi, provosts 51–2, 57–8, 63,
114, 116–17, 125–6, 149, 152, 156–7,
163–5, 241
excommunicated 125
see also reeves
Prene, William de 245
primogeniture 233
princey(authority, rule) 271–3
prises 170
proof 20, 33
property 13–16, 211
of churches 119
English law of 209
German law of 201, 206
hereditary 35
and liberty 211–21
private 201
rights 19
succession to 31
prostitutes 150
protection:
of people and property 13–16, 26, 29, 78,
80, 83, 88–90, 97, 117, 121, 131, 139,
161, 194
rackets 243, 248
see also clergy; merchants; orphans;
pilgrims; poor; travellers; widows
protonotary, imperial 88
Provence 48
county of 205
grand sénéchal of 291
parlementof 167
public assemblies of 288
provisions 197
of Oxford 158, 160
of Runnymede 186
of Westminster 159, 173–4, 178
see also statutes
provosts, see prévôts
prudentia 252Index 385