um nec statum
mundi ullo tempore finiendum."

[299] "Joannis Anglici praxis medica Rosa Anglica dicta," Augsbourg,
1595, 2 vols. 4to. Vol. i. p. 496.

[300] Concerning Bartholomaeus Anglicus, sometimes but wrongly called de
Glanville, see the notice by M. Delisle ("Histoire Litteraire de la
France," vol. xxx. pp. 334 ff.), who has demonstrated that he lived in
the thirteenth and not in the fourteenth century. It is difficult to
admit with M. Delisle that Bartholomew was not English. As we know that
he studied and lived on the Continent the most probable explanation of
his surname is that he was born in England. See also his praise of
England, xv-14. His "De Proprietatibus" (Francfort, 1609, 8vo, many
other editions) was translated into English by Trevisa, in 1398, in
French by Jean Corbichon, at the request of the wise king Charles V., in
Spanish and in Dutch. To the same category of writers belongs Gervase of
Tilbury in Essex, who wrote, also on the Continent, between 1208 and
1214, his "Otia imperialia," where he gives an account of chaos, the
creation, the wonders of the world, &c.; unpublished but for a few
extracts given by Stevenson in his "Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon,"
1875, 8vo, Rolls, pp. 419 ff.

[301] There are eighteen in the National Library, Paris. One of the
finest is the MS. 15 E ii. and iii. in the British Museum (French
translation) with beautiful miniatures in the richest style; _in fine_:
"Escript par moy Jo Duries et finy a Bruges le XXVe jour de May, anno
1482."

[302] On Vacarius, see "Magister Vacarius primus juris Romani in Anglia
professor ex annalium monumentis et opere accurate descripto
illustratus," by C. F. C. Wenck, Leipzig, 1820, 8vo.

[303] "Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae," finished about
1187 (ed. Wilmot and Rayner, London, 1780, 8vo); was perhaps the work of
his nephew, Hubert Walter, but written under his inspiraton.

[304] "Dialogus de Scaccario," written 23 Henry II., text in Stubbs,
"Select Charters," Oxford, 1876, p. 168.

[305] "Henrici de Bracton de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, Libri
V.," ed. Travers Twiss, Rolls, 1878 ff., 6 vols. 8vo. Bracton adopts
some of the best known among the definitions and maxims of Roman law:
"Filius haeres legittimus est quando nuptiae demonstrant," vol. ii. p. 18;
a treasure is "quaedam vetus depositio pecuniae vel alterius metalli cujus
non extat modo memoria," vol. ii. p. 230. On "Bracton and his relation
to