Manuscripta juridica

Ordo iudiciorum Scotiae "Rolment of courtis" : (extracts and summaries)

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Author(s):

• Habakkuk Bisset

No. of pages: Pag. 1-130 (fourth series of pagination):

Rubric: The rolment of courts, containing the oldest lawes, acts, statuts, constitutions and antiquities of his majesties native and most ancient kingdom of Scotland.

[{i}Comment by the scribe:{/i}] The authors name wes Abacuck Bissett. His father wes Cater to Queen Mary ... and dyed about 1628. The title and diction used by this author is somewhat ancient and outdated, but the cause of this may be ascrived in part to the subject wheirof he writes, and being mainly conversant in old monuments and records, he contracted a habit of speach like to thesse tymes.

[{i}Pag. 2: List of titles in the first book, numbered 1 'Off judges' - 41 'Reduction of decreits'.{/i}].

[{i}Pag. 3-4: Summary of the contents which precede the text of the document of erection of the College of Justice, followed by a copy of the text of that document, p. 5-12, etc.{/i}].

(End:) Therafter the author setts out ane abridgement of the lyves of all the bishops or popes of Rome from St. Peter till Leo the 10 in 1513, out of Platina and other authors, with some observationes of the concordance of the Scots storie dureing that space - which are heir omitted because they may be found more exact in other authors then in him. Finis