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This text survives in two copies, one from the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury and another from a legal manuscript collection now held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The inquest was held in 1170 and was an attempt to correct the abuses of sheriffs following complaints against their conduct.

Digital edition

Edited by Nicholas Vincent

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Print editions

• William Stubbs, ed., Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History, 9th edn, rev. by H. W. C. Davis (Oxford, 1921), pp. 175–78.

Manuscripts

• Rl: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C. 641, fos. 20r-21r
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• Vs: London, British Library, Ms Cotton Vespasian B.XIX, fos. 84v-85v
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Other versions of this law

• Inq Sher2: Inquest of Sheriffs