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knowledge might also qualify, even though the Coutume itself was already well
established and in print. Thus we find, to take them in order of the dates of the
privileges, the Coutume of Touraine (CH 1507, i (3)), Chartres (PA 1509, 2),
Maine (PA 1509, 4), Anjou (PA 1510, i), Orleans (PA 1510, 2), Auvergne
(PA 1511, i), Chaumont en Bassigny (PA 1511, 4), Paris (PA 1513, 2),
Anjou with tables etc. by Jean Bodin (PA 1514, 6), Sens (CH 1514, 3 (3)),
Burgundy with the commentary of Barthelemy de Chasseneuz (CH 1515, 7
(2)) and ofHugues Descousu (CH 1516, i (i)), Vitry enPartois (PA 1516, i),
Troves (PA 1516, 7), Poitou (CH 1517, 5), Bourbonnais (PA 1522, 6),
Toulouse (PA 1523, 2), Blois (PA 1524, 11), and Bourbonnais again
(PA 1525, 4). An early attempt at a complete collection of them, Les grandes
coustumes generalles et particulieres du royaume de France, also obtained a privilege
(CH 1517, 3). It is possible that other separate editions of particular Coutumes
obtained privileges, in addition to those listed above. Such booklets would
tend to be discarded when they were superseded, quite apart from the wear
and tear ofconstant use, and in some cases (e.g. Chaumont en Bassigny, 1511)
only one copy survives, the sole testimony to the existence of the privilege.
Le grant coustumier de Franc* et instructions de practicque of Jacques d" Ableiges,
which obtained a privilege from Louis XII confirmed by Francis I (CH
1514, i (2), cf. CH 1515, 3),
was on the other hand not a collection of Coutunus.
that of
though it is of great importance for the study of their history, especially
the Coutume of Paris. The author, who it completed by 1389 when he was Bailli
of Evreux, made a compilation which included the Style or procedure of the
Chambre des Enquetes of the Parlement and another Style of the commissaires of
the Parlement, the Stylus curiae Parlementi of Guillaume Du Breuil, the
Constitutions du Chdtelet de Paris, and other legal documents. The work of Du
Breuil, edited by Antoine Robert, had already come out in 1512 under a
privilege for two years obtained by Guillaume Eustace (PA 1512, 9 (i)), and
in 1511 Eustace had also issued, under probably his personal royal privilege,
the first printed edition of another standard fourteen th-century authority on
the procedure of the Parlement, that of Jean Masuer (CH 1508, 2 (9)).
Privileges for the current Style of any particular lawcourt were normally
sought from the court concerned: that of the Echiquieror Parlement of Rouen
was given by the Echiquier itself (PA 1516, 3), that of the court of the Grands
Jours of Berry by the court at Bourges (PA 1518, 5). That of the lawcourts of
Brittany was, however, obtained from the chancery of the duchy, issued by the
Council in the king's name (CH 1525, 3). The Prothocolle des notaires du chastellet
de Paris was covered by a grant obtained for this and other official publi-
cations, including the Concordat, from the royal chancery (CH 1519, 2 (3)),
while the Prevot of Paris at the Chatelet gave a privilege for the Style of the
court of the bailliage of Sens (PR 1520, 9).
In 1510 Guillaume Eustace published Les Ordonnances royaulx, 'avec les
stilles de Parlement et de Chastellet', with an improved Latin text of the