[Notebook in Law French of an unidentified English lawyer].
Contributors: Stone, John, d. 1640.
Published: 1620
Language: roa
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Law -- Great Britain.; Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman.
Notes: Baker, J.H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., II, 347 ("Law MS. 28")
Ms. no. 28 in LC Law Library.
Text begins with index (under "A[space]A"): L[ett]re dattorney al d[e]p[os] de fre liu[er]y ... fo. 1b Attorney.
The main part (leaves 1-[207]) contains discussions of moot points of law (beginning with "Quere d[e]l S[i]r .?. D[ye]r 57") and readings (lectures), some dated and/or with name of the lecturer (20a: "at Lyons Inn P[low]denn"; 39a: "Ap[u]d Newe Inne, 15 Mar 1613"; 40a: "Coventry al Lyons Inne, 1609"; 93b: "Quadragesima 1616, Bridgeman lecture"; 98b: "p[er] Chapma[n] al Clements Inne"; [115a-207b?]: "Lectura Mr Joh[ann]is Stone s[ur] lestat[ute] de 27 El. ca. 8 de errore etc. in Interiori Templo, Quadragesima 1612").
Last 46 leaves contain 66 alphabetically arranged themes (Avowry - Wast); the section is captioned "Resid[uum?] de Plowden's Queres" and concluded by explicit "Finis Plowden's Queres"; the text is, however, not that found in editions of E. Plowden's works.
Accessioned in LC in 1945 (LL 5296D3).
Written, no doubt in England, in a utilitarian cursive hand, probably by two individuals. Leaves [100-212] are a major cancel: instead of actual leaf numbering, the numbers of the leaves removed are noted in the margin. Paper of the cancel carries a watermark (Basel crosier over a hunting horn in a shield) attested in England in 1631 (cf. C. Pott, Francis Bacon, 1891, p. III, no. 24);  the earlier paper seems unmarked.
Leaves [1-4] and [22-27] of the 1st group, [113-115] of the 2nd, and the last leaf are blank.