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The staple court books of Bristol

The staple court books of Bristol Get access Notes and Queries, Volume CLXVIII, Issue jan12, 12 January 1935, Page 36, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/CLXVIII.jan12.36 Published: 12 January 1935

<italic>The Sheriff Court Book of Fife, 1515–1522</italic>. Edited by <sc>William Croft Dickinson</sc>, M.A., Ph.D. [Publications of the Scottish History Society, Third Series, vol. XII.] (Edinburgh: the Society. 1928. Pp. cvi, 440)

<italic>The Sheriff Court Book of Fife, 1515–1522</italic>. Edited by <sc>William Croft Dickinson</sc>, M.A., Ph.D. [Publications of the Scottish History Society, Third Series, vol. XII.] (Edinburgh: the Society. 1928. Pp. cvi, 440)

The Sheriff Court Book of Fife, 1515-1522

The Sheriff Court Book of Fife, 1515-1522

I.—Excavations at Sparta, 1909: § 5.—Lycurgus as Patronomus.A Scottish Parallel

A modern parallel to the Spartan practice of electing the divine Lycurgus as eponymous Patronomus is to be found in Cramond's Records of Elgin, vol. i, p. 91 (New Spalding Club, 1903), under date October 3rd, 1547, in the Burgh Court Book.‘The qlk (i.e. quhilk, which) day the haill communate has electit and menit Sanct Geill thair patroun provest for ane zeyr nyxt to cum.’ As the note by Cramond says, the council for the year consisted of the patron saint, four bailies, and only eight other councillors. The disastrous battle of Pinkie had been fought against the Protector Somerset on September 10th preceding, and the Elgin contingent had suffered severely.

Extracts from the Court Book of the York Eastland Company

Extracts from the Court Book of the York Eastland Company

Notice of the Court Book of the Bailie Court of Dunrossness, Sandwick, and Cunningsburgh, Shetland, 1731-1735; with a Statement of its Contents

Notice of the Court Book of the Bailie Court of Dunrossness, Sandwick, and Cunningsburgh, Shetland, 1731-1735; with a Statement of its Contents

XXXI.—On some early Latin Stories, imitated at a later period by Chaucer and Shakespeare. By Thomas Wright, F.S.A.

There are many obscure nooks and corners in the wide field of antiquarian research, which must be carefully explored, if we would make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with the history, or the literature and science, or the archæology of the Middle Ages. We shall find facts in the history of science and art among the heavy folios of the scholastic writers, which seem at first sight to forbid all attempt at perusal. Historical events are often cleared up from what has been looked upon as the refuse of manuscript collections, and hardly to be distinguished from the dust in which it has so long lain buried. Manners and customs of private life receive the most interesting illustration from the bills of butlers and cooks, from the parish register, or from the local court book.