De officio executoris.
Published: 1637
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Church of England -- Miscellanea.; Ecclesiastical courts -- Great Britain.; Manuscripts, English.
Notes: Baker, J.H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., II, 346 ("Law MS. 27")
Includes legal references.
Ms. no. 27 in LC Law Library.
Binder's title (title of the first item after contents).
Collectanea (21 items, numbered in the list of contents) of an English lawyer on various subjects pertaining (possibly except the first title) to the Church of England; in English or (ca. one-third of the text) Latin.
Dated documents range from 1589 (no. 7) to 1637 (no. 14, 19, 20); all copied probably within a span of a few years (same paper throughout).
Former owners: Sir George Cooke (bookplate); John Alderson Foote (inscribed information); accessioned in LC in 1942 (LL 7947A1).
Written no doubt in England, all in the same 17th-century hand.
Table of contents: title: 1. De officio executoris ex legibus nostris Angliae [in English] (p. 1-51); title: 7. Forma confirmationis Thomae Morton in episcopum Cestrensem; title: 8. Forma confirmationis Johannis Thorneburgh in Decanum Eboracensem; title: 9. Directions for preachers / by King James; title: 13. The petition of the proctors of the Arches & Admiralty to the King ...; title: 14. A proclamation declaring that the proceedings of His Majesties ecclesiasticall courts & ministers are according to the lawes of this Realme (copied from a printed issue); title: 18. An abstract of divers things out of the statutes ... touching ecclesiasticall courts ... (p. 179-207; alphabetically by subject); title: 21. Notes on certaine pleadings and judgments in many remarkable cases (p. 215-312).