The Growth of Royal Government under Henry III

DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. DAVID CROOK, now retired, spent his working life in The National Archives, where he became immersed in the extensive surviving early records of the English royal administration and common law. From those sources have emerged important findings which may identify a real criminal as the original of the legendary English outlaw Robin Hood. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln. NICHOLAS VINCENT is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the British Academy PAUL DRYBURGH is Principal Records Specialist (Medieval) at The National Archives, UK.

Introduction - David Carpenter and David Crook and Louise J. Wilkinson
Between Magna Carta and the Parliamentary State: The Fine Rolls of King Henry III, 1216-72 - David Carpenter
The Form and Function of the Originalia Rolls - Paul Dryburgh
The Fine Rolls of Henry III as a Source for the Legal Historian - Paul Brand
The Fine Rolls as Evidence for the Expansion of Royal Justice during the Reign of Henry III - Tony K. Moore
Administering the Irish Fines, 1199-1254: The English Chancery, the Dublin Exchequer and the Seeking of Favours - Beth Hartland
Auditing and Enrolment in Thirteenth-Century Scotland - Alice Taylor
Imitation and Independence in Native Welsh Administrative Culture, c.1180-1280 - Charles Insley
An Inventory of Gifts to King Henry III, 1234-35 - Nicholas Vincent
Another Fine Mess: Evidence for the Resumption of Exchequer Authority in the Minority of Henry III - Nick Barratt
Roger of Wendover, Prior of Belvoir, and the Implementation of the Charter of the Forest, 1225-27 - David Crook
Royal Government and Administration in Post-Evesham England, 1265-70 - Adrian L Jobson
The Church and the King: Canon Law and Kingship in England, 1257-61 - Philippa M. Hoskin
Women in English Local Government: Sheriffs, Castellans and Foresters - Louise J. Wilkinson
The Origins of the Office of Escheator - Scott L. Waugh