[Treatises
Subtitle: chiefly on the Exchequer].
Contributors: Austen, George, fl. 1593.; Fitzneale, Richard, ca. 1130-1198.
Published: 1576
Language: lat
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Great Britain. Exchequer -- Early works to 1800.; Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1688 -- Sources.; Manuscripts, English -- Washington (D.C.)
Other titles: Leges Edwardi Confessoris. 1576.; Replication of the serjeant-at-law to the doctor and student. 1576.; George Austen's commonplace book.
Notes: Baker, J.H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., II, 356 ("Law MS. Folio 2")
Ms. folio 2 in LC Law Library.
Supplied title based on Baker and on actual content. Known also, with doubtful appropriateness, as George Austen's commonplace book.
On spine: Austen's miscellaneous MSS., law and other subjects (near tail: Shalford 1600).
Begins, p. 1: Infangenthef est magnu[m] privelegiu[m] sive lib[er]tas ...
In Latin or English; compiled very possibly by George Austen. Included is an item statedly discovered after the death of Sir Edward Saunders in 1576.
Former owners: George Austen (inscription); Robert Austen (armorial bookplate). Accessioned in LC in 1941 (LL 618566).
Written in England, almost entirely in one hand, perhaps that of George Austen.
The two preliminary leaves, p. 107-182, and 234-246 are blank; p. 183-214 and 235-236 wanting. Also wanting is the leaf with p. 17-18 which included the drawing of a chessboard (cf. Baker).
Table of contents: title: [Glossary of Old English legal terms]; title: Leges Edwardi Confessoris; title: [On the Exchequer] (in English; begins: This figure of a playne chesbord ...); title: [Dialogus de Scaccario / Richard Fitzneale] (p. 29-87); title: Cambium, assain, allain; title: Modus mensurandi terram; title: The copie of a booke ... found in Sir Edw. Saunders' studye ... (known as Replication of the Serjeant-at-law to the Doctor and Student); title: [Notes from Tower records, Hen. III to Ric. II] (p. 215-233).