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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2011
The following letters from Frederick William Maitland to Reginald Lane Poole are supplied (with the addition of explanatory notes) by Mr Austin Lane Poole, President of St John's College, Oxford, from the original manuscripts which he has since presented to the Cambridge University Library. They are printed in full, together with such of the replies from Reginald Lane Poole as are preserved amongst the Maitland Manuscripts in the same Library.
1 Maitland, , ‘The History of a Cambridgeshire Manor’, E[nglis] H[istorical] R[eview], IX (1894), p. 417Google Scholar; Maitland, Collected Papers, ii, p. 366.
2 ‘The Murder of Henry Clement’, E.H.R. x (1895), p. 294CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
3 Furneaux's edition of the Germania was reviewed by Maitland in E.H.R. x (1895), p. 779CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
4 Tacitus, Germania, ed. Furneaux. The review appeared in E.H.R. x (1895), p. 779CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
5 The reference is to a very unfavourable review by Maitland (E.H.R. x (1895), p. 755) of ‘The History of Marriage, Jewish and Christian, in relation to Divorce and Certain Forbidden Degrees’, by H. M. Luckock, D.D., Dean of Lichfield.
6 F. Keutgen, Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der deutschen Stadt-Verfassung, 1895. See below, p. 320.
7 History of English Law (1st ed. 1895).
8 Bracton and Azo, Selden Society, vol. viii.
9 Select Pleas of the Court of Admiralty, Selden Society, vol. vi.
10 By H. B. Simpson, E.H.R. x (1895), p. 625.
11 Part of this letter was printed by H. A. L. Fisher in his Biographical Sketch, pp. 86–7.
12 The first of the three articles by H. Pirenne on ‘L'Origine des Constitutions Urbaines au Moyen Age’ appeared in the Revue Historique for 1893; the other two in 1895.
13 Above, p. 319. The theories of Keutgen and Pirenne are discussed by Maitland in E.H.R. xi (1896), p. 13CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
14 J. H. Round's Feudal England was first published in 1895; it was reviewed by Sir Frederick Pollock in E.H.R. x (1895), p. 783.
15 History of English Law.
16 As early as 11 December 1892 Round had written to Maitland (Camb. Univ. Lib. Add. MS. 7006 no. 40): ‘Re Domesday, it would be an awful pity if, as fellow workers we tumbled over one another in our eager researches. You see I don't know in the least what you are working for, what form your work will appear in, or what line you are specially going on.… Now what are your lines? I hope we are not running on the same rails.…’
17 Maitland's Domesday studies were of course ultimately published (in 1897) as Domesday Book and Beyond. Vinogradoff did not publish his work on Domesday until 1908, English Society in the Eleventh Century, which he dedicated to the memory of Maitland.
18 Selden Society, vols. vii and viii.
19 Printed in part in Biographical Sketch, pp. 101–2.
20 The reference is to a special subject for the Honour School of Modern History at Oxford under this title which was then under discussion.
21 It was printed E.H.R. xi (1896), p. 446CrossRefGoogle Scholar and reprinted in Roman Canon Law in the Church of England (1898).
22 De Civili Dominio and De Dominio Divino, ed. for the Wyclif Society by R. L. Poole, 1885 and 1890.
23 ‘Church, State, and Decretals’, E.H.R. xi (1896), p. 641; reprinted in Roman Canon Law in the Church of England.
24 S. R. Gardiner, joint editor of E.H.R.
25 I. S. Leadam reviewed The Mirror of Justice (Selden Society, vol. vii) in E.H.R. xii (1897), p. 148.
26 ‘William of Drogheda and the Universal Ordinary’, E.H.R. xii (1897), p. 625Google Scholar; reprinted in Roman Canon Law in the Church of England.
27 Felix Liebermann was given an honorary doctorate in 1896.
28 Henry I's Charter of Liberties, ch. 13.
29 Probably written in expectation of an attack from Round on the publication of Domesday Book and Beyond in 1897.
30 ‘Etude sur la Propriété Foncière dans les Villes du Moyen Age et Spécialement en Flandre’, reviewed by Maitland, , E.H.R. xiv (1899), p. 137CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
31 Gee, Henry, The Elizabethan clergy and the settlement of religion (Oxford, 1898)Google Scholar.
32 Cf. E.H.R. xv (1900), p. 86CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
33 The reference is to Hubert Hall's edition of The Red Book of the Exchequer (Rolls Series, 1896) which was severely criticized by J. H. Round and led to a bitter controversy.
34 Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer, by J. H. Round (Privately printed, 1898).
35 William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford.
36 Round's Studies was ultimately reviewed by Poole, R. L., E.H.R. XIV (1899), p. 148Google Scholar.
37 In his Roman Canon Law in the Church of England Maitland challenged the opinions of Bishop Stubbs set out in an appendix to the Report of the Ecclesiastical Courts Commission (1883) and in his Lectures on Medieval and Modern History (1886). The last paragraph is printed in Biographical Sketch, pp. 103–4.
38 In 1898 W. H. Stevenson was appointed Sandars reader in the University of Cambridge and gave to a small but select audience, which included Maitland and Mary Bateson, a course of lectures on the Anglo-Saxon Chancery. Though these lectures were fully written out, they were never published.
39 The Medieval Empire, 2 vols (London, 1898)Google Scholar.
40 Printed in E.H.R. xiv (1899), p. 735CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
41 The first of Maitland's articles under this title was published in E.H.R. xv (1900), p. 120CrossRefGoogle Scholar; four others followed, ibid. pp. 324, 530, 757 and xviii (1903), p. 517. They are reprinted in Collected Papers, in, p. 157.
42 An allusion to the recruiting song written by Rudyard Kipling at the time of the Boer War.
43 xv (1900), p. 86.
44 Round took exception to certain views expressed by Maitland in Domesday Book and Beyond in E.H.R. xii (1897), p. 492CrossRefGoogle Scholar and again, after the date of this letter, in E.H.R. xv, (1900), pp. 78CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 293.
45 For Round's attack on Freeman and ‘the Palisade’ at the battle of Hastings see Feudal England, p. 340 and the Memoir of Round in Family Origins, p. xxvii.
46 Rev. Malcolm MacColl, Canon of Ripon, entered into controversy with Maitland on the subject of Canon Law. For Maitland's replies see Collected Papers, III, pp. 119–37.
47 E.H.R. xv (1900), p. 757CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
48 Ibid, xii (1897), p. 768.
49 See ‘Elizabethan Gleanings’, E.H.R. xv (1900), p. 531Google Scholar, note 3; Collected Papers, iii, p. 179.
50 December 1899; reprinted Collected Papers, iii, p. 119.
51 Maitland's reply to MacColl was printed E.H.R. xvi (1001), p. 35; A. F. Pollard reviewed MacColl's The Reformation Settlement examined in the Light of History and Law. ibid. xvi (1901), p. 378.
52 England under Protector Somerset was reviewed by James Gairdner, ibid xvi (1901), p.151.
53 G. W. Kitchen, Dean of Durham and J. F. Bright, Master of University.
54 His reviews of t h e two volumes of Fagniez's, G. Documents relatifs à l'histoire de l'industrie…en France appeared in E.H.R. xv (1900), p. 142Google Scholar and xvi (1901), p. 819.
55 His obituary of Stubbs was printed in E.H.R. xvi (1901), p. 417CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
56 Turner, G. J., Select Pleas of the Forest, Selden Society, vol. xiii (1899)Google Scholar.
57 Lord Acton.
58 In October 1896 Acton wrote to R. L. Poole: ‘This University meditates a Universal History of modern times on a large scale’. The first volume of the Cambridge Modern History appeared in 1902 after Acton's death.
59 The Preface to the eighth edition of the Select Charters is dated 14 March 1895 and discusses ‘the theory of continuous history’.
60 Fustel de Coulanges.
61 His article on ‘Folkland’ was printed in E.H.R. viii (1893), p. 1.
62 H. M. Butler.
63 This project was the Political History of England, edited by William Hunt and Reginald L. Poole.
64 Beverley Town Documents, ed. A. F. Leach, Selden Society, vol. xiv (1900).
65 The Pension Book of Gray's Inn, 1569–1669, ed. R. J. Fletcher, reviewed by F. W. Maitland in E.H.R. xvii (1902), p. 613.
66 English Law and the Renaissance (The Rede Lecture for 1901). It was reviewed by Goudy, H. in E.H.R. xvii (1903), p. 358CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
67 See Die Fälschungen Erzbischof Lanfranks von Canterbury, by Boehmer, H. (Leipzig, 1902)Google Scholar.
68 Savine, Alexander, ‘Copyhold Cases in the Early Chancery Proceedings’, E.H.R. xvii (1902), p. 296CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
69 Selden Society, vol. xv.
70 Ibid. vol. xvi.
71 See the review by Liebermann, F. (E.H.R. xvii (1902), p. 551CrossRefGoogle Scholar) of Select Pleas, Starrs, and other Records from the Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews (Selden Society), ed. by J. M. Rigg.
72 Lord Acton died at Tegernsee on 19 June 1902.
73 Year Books 1 and 2 Edward II (ed. Maitland, Selden Society, vol. xvii, 1903), p. 22.
74 The notice of Acton in E.H.R. (xvii (1902), p. 692CrossRefGoogle Scholar) was written by R. L. Poole.
75 Above, note 73.
76 Sir Henry Yule, editor of Marco Polo and many works for the Hakluyt Society.
77 Sir George Warner, editor of the travels of Sir John Mandeville (Roxburghe Club, 1889).
78 Presumably to Lord Acton.
79 On Lord Acton, E.H.R. xvii (1902), p. 692CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
80 Reprinted in Collected Papers, iii, p. 512.
81 Arthur Balfour, who was then Prime Minister, offered the chair to Maitland in a letter dated 25 October (Camb. Univ. Lib. Add. MS. 7006 no. 156). On 31 December Henry Jackson wrote to Maitland (ibid. no. 185): From Morley I learnt one or two things about the history professorship. When he was at Cambridge in October, I said to him that I was sure that Acton wd. have said “ask Maitland, and if he refuses, don't forget C. H. Firth”. I noticed that Morley—who was behind the scenes—“jumped”. On December 10 he told me that Firth had indirectly let Balfour know that he was anxious not to have the offer. (Gossip says that Prothero had the offer.) I understand that Mahan was very seriously considered; and that if Ld. Salisbury had not resigned, the Chancellor of the University wd. have nominated, and wd. have nominated Sir R. Blennerhassett.’ John (afterwards Lord) Morley was much interested in the choice; he was given Acton's Library by Andrew Carnegie who had acquired it and was himself thought of as a possible candidate (letter of Henry Jackson to Maitland 23 October, ibid. no. 155). Blennerhassett was M.P. for Galway City and afterwards Kerry, President of Queen's College, Cork, and an intimate friend of Acton and Dollinger. Jackson's letter (quoted above) was written after the appointment of J. B. Bury.
82 The commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Bodleian Library, 8–9 October 1902.
83 Index Britamriae Scriptorum, ed. Poole, R. L. with the help of Bateson, Mary (Oxford, 1902)Google Scholar.
84 W. H. Stevenson in an article in E.H.R. xvii (1902), p. 625, demolished the theories of Dr E. Guest on the English Conquest of South Britain contained in Origines Celticae (1883).
85 W. H. Stevenson.
86 Dr W. W. Jackson.
87 A. S. Napier, Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton.
88 W. H. Stevenson's fellowship at Exeter expired in 1903.
89 See E.H.R. xviii (1903), p. 527Google Scholar, note 25, where the style Father J. H. Pollen is adopted.
90 The first edition of Prou's Manual de Paléographie, suivi d'un dictionnaire des abréviations appeared in 1890.
91 In the fourth edition of Bond's Handy-Book for Verifying Dates (1889) both entries have the correct date—29 August.
92 See Usher, Roland G., ‘James I and Sir Edward Coke’, E.H.R. xviii (1903), p. 664CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
93 S. R. Gardiner died 23 February 1902.
94 Andrew Clark's ‘Tithing Lists from Essex, 1329–1343’ was printed in E.H.R. xix (1904), p. 715CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
95 He died 8 May 1904.
96 A. J. Balfour, then Prime Minister, appointed C. H. Firth to succeed Powell as Regius Professor.
97 Adolphus Ballard's The Domesday Boroughs was published by the Clarendon Press in 1904.
98 In 1904 W. H. Stevenson was elected to a research fellowship at St John's College, Oxford.
99 Ker, W. P., The Dark Ages (1904)Google Scholar.
100 Reprinted in Collected Papers, iii, p. 447; the reference to Boehmer's Die Fälschungen Erzbischof Lanfranks is on p. 462.
101 Perhaps a reference to Trenholme's, N. M. The Right of Sanctuary in England (Columbia, Missouri, 1903)Google Scholar.
102 Paul Vinogradoff.
103 The reference is to Liebermann, F., Die Gesetze der Angehachsen, vol. i (1903)Google Scholar.
104 ‘Serfdom on an Essex Manor’, E.H.R. xx (1905), p. 479Google Scholar.
105 H. W. C. Davis was becoming a regular contributor to the E.H.R. In 1905 he made no less than five contributions.
106 The twentieth anniversary of the founding of E.H.R. was celebrated on 15 December 1905 by a dinner at Balliol College.
107 Volumes ii and iii of the Political History of England, ed. W. Hunt and R. L. Poole.
108 Adolphus Ballard and Mary Bateson; the one a strong upholder of the garrison theory, the other of the market theory of the origin of boroughs. Cf. E.H.R. xx (1905), p. 143CrossRefGoogle Scholar; ibid. xxi (1906), pp. 99, 699, 709.
109 Mary Bateson, who died 30 November 1906. R. L. Poole wrote a notjce of her in E.H.R. xxii (1907), p. 64CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Maitland in the Athenaeum (reprinted Collected Papers, iii, p. 541). It was the last thing he wrote, for he himself died 3 weeks later, 19 December 1906.
110 G. J. Turner.