the tolls on shipping coming in and out of the port. He gave evidence to the second committee of the House of Commons regarding the record commissioners on 2 March 1836. Later years and death Before his death Illingworth became blind and fell into poverty; and a subscription was made for him by the Incorporated Law Society. He died at 13 Brooksby Street, South Islington, London, on 21 February 1845. Publications In 1800 Illingworth published an Inquiry into the Laws, Antient and Modern, respecting Forestalling, Regrating, and Ingrossing. He transcribed and collated the Statutes of the Realm from Magna Carta to nearly the end of the reign of Henry VIII; transcribed and printed the Quo Warranto Pleadings (Record Commission, 1818) and the Hundred Rolls (Record Commission, 1812–18), and wrote the preface and compiled in Latin the subject index to the Abbreviatio Placitorum (Record Commission, 1811). With John Caley he edited the Testa de Nevill (Record Commission, 1807), and he assisted in the preparation of the first volume of the Rotuli Scotiae (Record Commission, 1814). Illingworth's Index Cartarum de Scotia from the chapter house was privately printed in folio by Sir Thomas Phillipps at Middle Hill about 1840. Notes Attribution 1764 births 1845 deaths English lawyers English antiquarians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London English archivists People from Nottingham