page_title: John Doddridge
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Doddridge / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of John Doddridge (1658) The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries: viz. Mr Justice Doddridge, Mr Agar, Francis Tate, William Canden [sic: Camden], and Ioseph Holland. Touching the Antiquity, Power, Order, State, Manner, Persons and Proceedings of the High-Court of Parliament in England, London&#58; &#32;Printed for William Leake [the younger], at the Crown in Fleet-street, betwixt the two Temple-Gates OCLC&#58; 15231340.&#32; Sir John Doddridge's nephew, John Dodderidge (1610–1659) arranged for the publication of the book: see W[illiam] R[etlaw] Williams (1898) The Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester, including the Cities of Bristol and Gloucester, and the Boroughs of Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, and Tewkesbury, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1213–1898, Hereford&#58; &#32;Private printing for the author by Jakeman and Carver, pp.&#160;116–117 OCLC&#58; 10849371.&#32; However, it has been suggested that the essay in the book said to be by John Doddridge, entitled Dissertation on Parliament, is of doubtful authenticity.
context_page_description: Sir John Doddridge was an English lawyer, appointed Justice of the King's Bench in 1612 and served as Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in 1589 and for Horsham in 1604. He was also an antiquarian and writer. He acquired the nickname "the sleeping judge" from his habit of shutting his eyes while listening intently to a case. As a lawyer he was influenced by humanist ideas, and was familiar with the ideas of Aristotle, and the debates of the period between his followers and the Ramists. He was a believer in both the rationality of the English common law and in its connection with custom.
  He was one of the Worthies of Devon of the biographer John Prince.
context_section_description: Doddridge is the author of the following works published posthumously:
  The Lawyer's Light (a manual for students), London, 1629.
  History of Wales, Cornwall, and Chester (chiefly from records at the Tower), London, 1630.
  A Compleat Parson (based on his lectures on advowsons), London, 1630; 2nd ed. 1641.
  The English Lawyer (including a reprint of the Lawyer's Light and a treatise for practitioners and judges), London, 1631.
  Law of Nobility and Peerage, London, 1658.
  Thomas Hearne's Curious Discourses contain two brief tracts by Doddridge: Of the Dimensions of the Land of England, and A Consideration of the Office and Duty of the Heralds in England. A Dissertation on Parliament was published as the work of Doddridge by his nephew John Dodderidge of the Middle Temple in a volume entitled Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries ... Touching the Antiquity, Power, Order, State, Manner, Persons and Proceedings of the High-Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658; reprinted in 1679). It is of doubtful authenticity. The original edition of the work on deeds known as Sheppard's Touchstone of Common Assurances, and the work on the Office of Executor, assigned by Anthony Wood to Thomas Wentworth, both of which were published anonymously in 1641, have been ascribed to Doddridge. A small treatise on the royal prerogative (Harl. MS. 5220) also purports to be his work.
caption: The title page of The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries (1658) published by Doddridge's nephew John Dodderidge containing an essay said to be by Doddridge
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