But there are no comprehensive ordinances for the Tudor-Stuart Household, which must largely be studied from its origins. The best text of the _Constitutio Domus Regis_ of Henry I (_c._ 1135) is in T. Hearne, _Liber Niger Scaccarii_² (1774), i. 341; a less good one in H. Hall, _The Red Book of the Exchequer_ (1896, Rolls Series), iii. 807. For Edward I we have unprinted ordinances of 1279 (_Addl. MS._ 4565 H; _Lord Steward's Misc._ 298), and the description of the palace jurisdictions by a contemporary lawyer (_c._ 1290) in John Selden's edition of _Fleta, seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani_ (1685); for Edward II ordinances of 1318 and 1323 edited from the French original in Tout, 267, and from a translation by Francis Tate (1601) in _Life Records of Chaucer_, ii. 1, together with related Exchequer ordinances in Hall, iii. 908, 930. Ordinances of Edward III, not known to be extant, are referred to by the compiler of the _Liber Niger Domus Regis Angliae_ in the reign of Edward IV. Of the _Liber Niger_ a large number of manuscripts exist (_Lord Steward's Misc._ 299; _Exchequer T. of R. Misc._ 230; _Harl. MSS._ 293, f. 19; 298, f. 41; 369, f. 56ᵛ; 610, f. 1; 642, f. 196ᵛ; _Soc. Antiq. MS._). It is not certain from which of these the bad text in _H. O._ 13 is printed; probably it used the last two. The _Liber Niger_ is less an ordinance than an unfinished literary treatise by a household clerk, probably motived by the actual ordinances of 1478, of which an unprinted copy is in _Exchequer T. of R. Misc._ 206. An ordinance of Henry VII (1493) and a ceremonial of the same reign are in _H. O._ 107. The documents of Henry VIII's time are complicated. There appear to be three sets of ordinances: (_a_) the Eltham Articles drawn up by Wolsey (Halle, ii. 56) in Jan. 1526 (_Lord Steward's Misc._ 299, ff. 158, 163; _Exchequer T. of R. Misc._ 231; _H. O._ 137-61, from _Harl. MS._ 642); (_b_) ordinances related to a 'new book of household', _c._ 1540 (_H. O._ 228-40); (_c_) scattered ordinances, _c._ 1532-44 (_H. O._ 208-27). Subsidiary lists and documents of about the period of (_a_) are in _Lord Steward's Misc._ 299, and, perhaps with some of other dates, in Brewer, IV. i. 860. Those printed from a _Dunch MS._ in _Genealogist_, xxix, xxx, appear to belong to the 'new book' of (_b_). A third set, of _c._ 1544-6, are in _H. O._ 165-207. Much other material is scattered through the twenty-one volumes of the _Calendar of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII_ (1862-1910, cited as Brewer), including some of earlier date than the Eltham Articles.--I need hardly add that for the purposes of this chapter I have rarely been able to go beyond printed sources.]