I should like to dedicate this paper to the Goddess Serendipitas, who has invisibly regulated so much of my research in manuscript law reports. Twenty years ago I published a series of Newgate reports from 1616, which I had recently stumbled upon at Harvard, thinking they were the earliest of their kind. Some time later, I found in the same remarkable Treasure Room a much shorter series two centuries older, from 1421. I thought these were unprinted until I acquired a copy of the very rare year book of 9–10 Henry V which was published privately by Ralph Rogers in 1948; they are in fact printed there, without translation, but I suspect they are still not widely known. More recently, while searching through manuscript year books in the British Library, looking for moots, I found several series from the reign of Edward II and the first year of Edward III. These, as I hope and believe, are not known at all. It was quite a startling find for me, because the cases are 300 years earlier than those I began with. Unconscious censorship by printers and editors, including even Selden Society editors, has kept them largely from sight. Presumably they were deemed superfluous to the year books, as later understood, and so they were treated as if they were not there. Nevertheless, they are there, and they are deserving of our attention.