Fun Facts about Historical Laws in Geography of Present-Day United Kingdom

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(1) The Scottish Parliament - Past and Present. undated, at page 2
http://www.scottish.parliament.u ... imeline_English.pdf
(1235[:] THE FIRST MENTION OF A SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT  The use of the word 'colloquiun' in this act, referring to a meeting at Kirkliston in 1235, marks the first surviving evidence for a parliamentary assembly in Scotland.  This is the earliest written mention of a parliament; it refers to an assembly held at Kirkliston on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The Parliament developed from meetings of the 'King's great council,' which were gatherings of nobles and churchmen who advised the king on policy and justice issues")

(2) Law of Æthelberht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_%C3%86thelberht
(written in Old English, probably dating to the early 7th century; originates in the kingdom of Kent; It is also thought to be the earliest example of a document written in English, though extant only in an early 12th-century manuscript, Textus Roffensis)

(3)
(a) List of English statutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_statutes
("issued under royal authority in the Kingdom of England before the development of Parliament. These instruments are not considered to be Acts of Parliament, which can be found instead at the List of Acts of the Parliament of England")
(b) "The first Statute Roll is Statute of Gloucester of 1278. * * * The statute rolls were discontinued in 1469 when Acts of Parliament in their final form began to be enrolled on Parliament rolls."  en.wikipedia.org

The Statute of Gloucester. TextManuscripts, undated
http://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/statute-gloucester-60586
("An exceptionally rare and early copy of one of the most important pieces of legislation enacted in Parliament during the reign of Edward I, the so-called Statute of Gloucester, this copy apparently made from that delivered to the sheriff of Sussex. The Statute, proclaimed at Gloucester in August 1278, played a key role in the King’s campaign to recover his rights against the English barons and was crucial to the development of English law")
(c) Percy Henry Winfield, The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Harvard University Press 1925 (reprinted Washington DC: Beard Books, 2000), at page 84
https://books.google.com/books?i ... %201194&f=false
("(1) Original Sources [section heading]  The plastic form of the early enactment has already been discussed (in 2), and it was certainly none the less elusive because we get no Statute Rolls until 1278. Before that date, the authoritative sources of enactments are various: [Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Coram Rege Rolls, Charter Rolls, and Fine rolls]A remarkable point is that Magna Carta itself is not on any of these Rolls")


(4) Statute of Marlborough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Marlborough
("passed by King Henry III of England in 1267. It is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom that has not yet been repealed. There were twenty-nine chapters, of which four are still in force. The Statute is so named as it was passed at Marlborough, where a Parliament was being held")