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Excerpt from Pedes Finium: Or Fines, Relating to the County of Norfolk; Levied in the King's Court From the Third Year of Richard I. To the End of the Reign of John Nearly twenty years ago our Society began to print the Norfolk fines at length, with a translation and notes; but only a dozen fines were issued,3 ably edited by the Rev. G. H. Dashwood. Owing, I believe, to the gentleman who supplied the copies of such twelve fines failing to send any more, their publication was dropped, and it was perhaps as well that it was so, for, published in this form, it would have taken about forty volumes the size of our Transactions to have completed them. I was subsequently asked to begin again in a tabular form, which, by omitting the formal parts of the document, has the advantage of giving five times as much information in the same space. For reasons into which I need not go now, though I may say that the delay has not been with me, the issue of these fines has been slow; but I am at last enabled to place in my readers' hands précz's of the eight hundred and one fines relating to our county which were levied in the reigns of Richard I. And John, with indexes of the names and places which occur in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.