reader that the minims can only be determined by the context; and, in proper names, the correct reading must be obtained from other sources than the document immediately before us; so also with the small t and c, which " are formed in many instances by precisely the same trace of the style."
   Before we leave Mr. Hunter's admirable preface, it may be well to quote a portion of what he says with regard to the four distinct portions into which the Fine was divided.
   "I. The declaration of the Place at which the Fine was levied, of the Time, and of the Persons who composed the Court."
   1. As to Place. " The Fines which are deposited among the Public Records of the realm were, it is believed, all levied in the Curia Regis."
   This Court was "moveable; it accompanied the king, or it existed in the provinces in the form of a Court in which presided Justices Itinerant, who seem to have been in those early times, as now, commissioned to hold Courts in various places by the King."
   2. As to Time. " The dates of the Fines are always given with great exactness," and in this respect have a great advantage over the common feoffment deeds, "which rarely have any date till we come to the reign of Edward I., a century later than the time when the Fines first occur."
    3. As to the Persons who composed the Court. "The names of the persons before whom the Fines were levied are, in every Fine, set forth at length."  " This part of the Fine shows who were the persons engaged in the public administration of justice, and it is, in fact, chiefly from these lists that Dugdale has compiled the tables of the Justices in his 'Origines,' from which other catalogues of Justiciars and Justices have been formed." " The King was often himself present. When that