Evening star., 1932-10-09
LEGAL MATERIALS
| SHOWN AT FOLGER
Shakespeare Library Gives
Exhibit in Courtesy to
Bar Association.
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

At the Folger Shakespeare Library
on East Capitol street, this week spe-
cial exhibition Of selected legal material
from the library's collection will be on
display in courtesy to the members OF
the American Bar Association who will
be here in convention.
William Adams Slade. director. and
DR.. Joseph Quincy Adams, supervisor
of research, have chosen and arranged
the material in the library exhibition
hall
Seven of the items to be shown are
identified with the career Of Francis
Bacon. Baron Verulam, Viscount St
Albans. lone of the most illustrous phi
losophers of modern times" Included
in the list are Bacons notebook with
observations on law; his copy of 1.-The
Statutes at Large" with his arms
stamped on the binding a presenta-
ton copy of his de Arguments Sci
entarium," 1923, first edition, on large
paper. in its original binding Of limp
veilum; the original of his Confession
and Submission Before the House OF
Commons" 1921: the original of his
Confession and Submission Before the
House of Lords 1921. and the official
record of the judgment and sentence
pronounced upon him by the peers. in
dorSed on the back by the Earl of
Huntington, chairman of the commit
tee of inquiry into his conduct as lord
chancellor, May 3. 1921. The last three
are among the most important docu-
ments of EliZabethan date now extant
They are in an excellent state Of pres
ervation and are of priceless value.
Order of Henry VIII.
The library also will have on exhibi-
tion an order of Henry VIII dissolving
certain old courts and erecting in their
place the Court of Augumentations; q
list of the High Court of Chauncery,
with the officers and ministers there
with their fees and allowance to every
of them" 1889; the court record of
the Offices of England with the fees to
each. 1911. Sir Thomas Flemminge
lord chief justice, being entered for 23s
pounds. and Sir Edward Coke, lord
chief justice Of the Common Pleas, for
202 pounds; and the record of the
cases in the Star Chamber for the
reign of James I.
Three celebrated deeds Of particular
interest to students of Shakespeare vail
be on display. These are the Black
friars deed. 1913. for the sale of the
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Walker to Shakespeare. the counterpart
London the deed transferring the legal
estate of the Blackfriars property. Feb
ruary 10, 1617-1618, in trust following
Shakespeares will. signed by John
Heminges, manager of the Globe Co
and one Of the publishers of the first
folio; deed signed by Francis Collins
who drew up Shakespeare's will and
was bequeathed fl3 by the poet There
is also an indenture signed by the Earl
of Southampton. 1896.
Elizabeth Proclamations.
In an adjacent case will be a collec-
tion of proclamations signed by Queen
Elizabeth. assembled and bound by q
contemporary. Henry Dyson, and sup
posed to be the largest and finest COL
lection Of its kind in existence
Four different editions of Littleton's
Tenures will be included in the exhibit
ton. The first is for 1886. and was re-
bound, with blank leaves inserted to re-
ceive added notes and comments. a
practice which led to the printing OF
special editions similarly interleaved
The second is for 1891. each page print
ed on one side only: the third for 1904
annotated. and the fourth for 1917
Francis Bacon's copy. with his auto
graphed annotationS.
Plowden's Commentaries. 1888: the
whole volume of Statutes at Large. 1887;
Statutes. Henry VIII. and Statutes
Elizabeth 1885. also will be displayed.
An item of very great importance is
a manuscript of English Statutes from
the time of the Magma Carta to about
1897.
Jurists and legal practitioners will be
received at the Library on Thursday
afternoon. following the laying Of the
corner stone of the new Supreme Court
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