Law Readings, seventeenth century
Scope and Contents
(1) 'Le reading de Mounsieur Wm. Symons, Reader en le sommer vacacion, Ao 3 E[dward VI.] sur le Stat. fait 32 H[en] VIII. [c. 28] de Leases faits del choses que ont estait d’inheritance en le droit de lors femes ou esglises.’ Symonds was of the Inner Temple, and made a Serjeant-at-law, Dec. 12, 1 Elizabeth (William Dugdale, Origines Judiciales). (2) Anonymous, On the Statute De Foresta. (English.) (3) Anonymous, On Stat. 2 Westm. c. 1. 13 Edw. I. (French.) (4) Anonymous, ‘De Copiholdee.’ (French.) (5) Anonymous, 'sur Le stat. del 32 H[en.] VII. cap. 28.' (French.) (6) 'Five severall Exercises and Positions upon the Statute and Commission of Sewers [23 Hen. VIII. c. 5], Directorye to Commissioners in their proceedinges. By Robert Callis, Serjeant att Law.’ (English.) It is without the exordium, but appears otherwise to agree with the first printed edition, 1647. The summer Reading at Gray's Inn in 1622. See Ii.05.07. (7) ‘Lectura Jac. Whitlocke, Armigeri, in Medio Templo, 2 Augusti, 1619, super Statutum 21 H[en] VIII. c. 13, de Facultatibus Beneficiorum.’ (English.) Sir James Whitlocke was successively a Justice of the Common Pleas and King's Bench, and died in 1632. See Hearne's Curious Discourses, II. 447. (8) Richard Reynell’s Observations Sur 32 H[en.] VIII. c. 28.' (French.) Reynell was summer Reader in the Middle Temple in 1614. Ff. 538-540 contain what appear to be the opening and concluding addresses (in English) at a Reading.
Dates
- Creation: seventeenth century
Creator
- Whitelocke, James, Sir, 1570-1632 (knight and judge) (Person)
- Callis, Robert, c 1577-1642 (lawyer) (Person)
- Reynell, Richard, Sir, c 1558-1634 (lawyer) (Person)
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Extent
1 volume(s) (540 leaves, a few blank)
Language of Materials
French
English
Custodial History
In the Library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper
Repository Details
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