CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
LIVES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICES FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE REIGN OF
EDWARD I.
Origin and Functions of the Office of Chief Justiciar, or Chief Justice, of
England, Page 1. Odo, the first Chief Justiciar, 4. His Birth, 4.
He accompanies William the Conqueror in the Invasion of England, 5.
He is appointed Chief Justiciar, 6. Cause tried before him, 7. His
Quarrel with the King, 8. He is liberated from Imprisonment, 9.
He conspires against William Rufus, 10. He is banished from
England, 12. His Death, 12. William Fitz-Osborne Chief Justiciar,
13. William de Warrenne and Richard de Benefacta Chief Justiciars,
14. William de Carilefo Chief Justiciar, 16. Flambard Chief
Justiciar, 17. First Sittings in Westminster Hall, 17. Roger,
Bishop of Salisbury, Chief Justiciar, 18. Ralph Basset Chief
Justiciar, 19. Prince Henry (afterwards Henry II.) Chief Justiciar,
19. Richard de Luci Chief Justiciar, 20. Robert, Earl of Leicester,
Chief Justiciar, 21. Ranulfus de Glanville, 22. His Birth, 22. He
is Sheriff of Yorkshire, 23. He takes William the Lion, King of
Scots, Prisoner, 23. How the News was received by Henry II., 25.
Glanville made Chief Justiciar, 27. Glanville as a Law Writer, 29.
Preface to Glanville's Book, 30. Mode of Trial by Grand Assize or
by Battle, 31. Glanville's Conduct to the Welsh, 34. Glanville's
Prohibition in the Suit between Henry II. and the Monks of Canter-
bury, 35. A new Crusade, 37. Glanville takes the Cross, 38.
Glanville is killed at the Siege of Acre, 40. Hugh Pusar, Bishop of
Durham, Chief Justiciar, 40. His licentious youth, 41. His meri-
torious middle age, 41. His seven years of Blindness, 42. His
Death, 43. William Longchamp, 43. Walter Hubert, Archbishop
of Canterbury, Chief Justiciar, 44. Case of William-with-the-Long-
Beard, 44. Hubert deposed from the Justiciarship, 47. Geoffrey
Fitzpeter Chief Justiciar, 47. Trial of the Case of Fauconbridge v.
Fauconbridge, 49. Peter de Rupibus, 51. Peter de Rupibus in
favour with Henry III., 51. He takes the Cross, 53. He gains a
Battle for the Pope, 54. His Death, 54. Hubert de Burgh, 54.