[MAGNA CARTA].

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Rare first edition of the Secunda Pars Veterum Stautorum , a collection of early statutes, often found with a first part, the Magna Carta, though issued and saleable and often reprinted separately. It contains many important early statutes such as the Statuta Valliae , which provided the constitutional basis for the government of the Principality of Wales from 1284, superseded only three years after this printing in 1535 when Henry VIII made Wales unequivocally part of the realm of England . The small edition of the Antiqua Statuta , first printed by Pynson in 1508, and afterwards frequently reprinted, contains Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, the Statues of Merton, Marlbridge, Westminster, 1 and 2, and other statutes previous to 1 Edw. III. in Latin and French respectively. These are the earliest printed copies now know of those statutes. In 1531 Berthelet printed an edition of the Antiqua Statuta , similar to the editions by Pynson, with some additions. In 1532 Berthelet also printed a collection of the statutes previous to 1 Edw. III. not included in the Antiqua Statuta . This collection he intituled Secunda Pars Veterum Statutorum , and it is always so distinguished. It was frequently reprinted. The statutes contained in it are in French and Latin respectively. Neither in the Antiqua Statuta or in the Secunda Pars Veterum Statutorum , were the contents arranged with any chronological accuracy. In the Antiqua Statuta the Two Charters, and the Statutes of Merton, and Marlbr

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