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PARLIAMENTARY

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 961 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PARLIAMENTARY REcoRns.The proceedings of

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

were recorded either on a roll prepared for each session, or on detached documents and petitions made up into sessional files. The files have now disappeared, although transcripts of some still exist, and in many cases their constituents can be traced among the Ancient Petitions (see below under

SPECIAL

SPECIAL

COLLECTIONS). The rolls known as

Parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

Rolls form a broken

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, 18

Edward

EDWARD

I. to 4849 Victoria. The tolls for

Edward

EDWARD

I. and Edward II. are among the Exchequer records, and the remainder are in the chancery. Of these rolls and files, and of certain pleadings found in the records of the King's Remembrancer, the

Record

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

Commission published what was meant to be a complete reprint. But the editors relied partly upon transcripts and partly upon

original

ORIGINAL

documents, and it is often difficult to determine the sources from which they drew. So prepared, the Rolls of Parliament (6 vols.) cover the period from 6 Edward I. to I Mary. The roll for 33 Edward I., unknown to them, has been edited (Rolls

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

, vol. 98) by F. W. Maitland, with a valuable introduction and appendices; rolls for 18 Edward I. and 12 Edward II. are printed in H. Coles' Documents Illustrative of English History. The Parliament Roll includes enrolments of statutes among its contents. But from Edward I. to Edward IV. the statutes after receiving the royal assent were also enrolled upon the

Statute

STATUTE

Roll (chancery), of which only six rolls now remain. From these rolls and other sources the

Record

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

Commission prepared the volumes known as Statutes of the Realm on principles described in the introduction to that

work

WORK

. Unfortunately the editors made use of early printed texts, and translations based upon the inferior texts contained in Exchequer K.R. Miscellaneous Books 9, 10 and ii, and so diminished the value of their

work

WORK

. The Statutes of the Realm extend to the end of the reign of Queen Anne. Since then public general acts have been pub, lished in many forms; private acts ceased to be enrolled upon the Parliament Rolls during the 16th century; the originals are preserved in the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Lords. The Record Office contains detached documents relating to parliamentary proceeding known as Exchequer Parliamentary and Chancery Parliamentary, but neither class has yet taken a final form.

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