[Sampler or manual of written instruments used in English law].
Contributors: Tyrrill, Thomas, fl. 1643-1675.
Published: 1640
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Forms (Law) -- Great Britain.; Legal instruments -- Great Britain.; Manuscripts, English.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Great Britain.
Notes: Baker, J.H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., II, 355 ("Law MS. 35")
Ms. no. 35 in LC Law Library.
Documents in English or Latin; marginal captions and explanatory comment in English.
The copied documents, mostly contracts (one only of each kind) name the persons involved, etc.; collected and copied  over time, they are grouped by type, with one or more blank pages separating the groups; didactic comment suggests a manual based on actual practice in a lawyer's office.
Thomas Tyrrill signed "coram me" on p. 112 and signed on p. 129, where he is also mentioned in text.
Accessioned in LC in 1942 (LL 7947 A6).
Written in England, in several hands, by at least 5 different individuals.
Dates of the documents copied range from 1638 to 1689.
Only ca. one-quarter of the 155 numbered pages contain writing.
Paper of same make throughout; watermark: grape in a pot.