Hundred ordinance (Hu)
This Old English legal text regulating the schedule and procedures of the hundred courts was, based on its contents, likely produced during or soon after the reign of King Edmund (939-946). It is one of the earliest sources for the workings of the most ubiquitous of English courts.
Latin translations of the Hundred ordinance were included in Quadripartitus and in the Consiliatio Cnuti.
Contents
Print editions
Manuscripts
- B: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383, pp. 10r-11r
description & facsimiles - Hk: London, British Library, MS Additional 49366, fos. 63v-64v
description & facsimiles - M: Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS Lat. 420, fos. 54v-55r
description & facsimiles - R: London, British Library, MS Royal 11 B.II, fos. 145v-146r
description & facsimiles - Rs: Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS Lat. 155, fos. 10r-10v
description & facsimiles - T: London, British Library, MS Cotton Titus A.XXVII, fos. 126v-127r
description & facsimiles