Ascuns nouel cases de les ans & temps le Roy, H.8. Ed. 6. & la Roygne Mary, escrie ex la graund abridgement
By: compose per Sir Robert Brooke chiualer [et]c. la disperse en les titles. Mes icy collect sub ans
Publisher: In aedibus Ianae Yetsweirt.
Published: 1597
Place of publication: Londini
Language: roa; lat; eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Ascuns novel cases; Bellewe's Cases temp. Henry VIII; Brooke's New cases
Notes: Decorative type ornament on title page.

Colophon: London in aedibus Ianae Yetswiert.

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of title page and colophon.

Collation: A-P⁸ [$4 signed; misprinting B4 as A4]

Error in foliation: 110 not numbered.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman and italic type.

Side notes.

Includes index.

Law reports covering the years 6 Henry VIII - 4 Mary (1514-1558)

First printed in 1576 by Richard Tottel (STC 3820.5). These reports of cases were collected, anonymously, by Richard Bellew from Brooke's "La graunde abridgement", first published in 1573 (STC 3827)

Sometimes known as Brookes New cases and cited as Bellewe's Cases temp. Henry VIII. Also known, from its size, as Petit Brooke, or "Petty Brook" --cf. Soule. The Lawyer's reference manual, p.91, notes 7,11.

STC (2nd ed.) 3824

Beale, J.H. Engl. law R480a

Cowley, J.D. Bibliography of abridgements 92

Received Aug. 22, 1924; Sweet & Maxwell.

Text in Law French.

Ex libris Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden --Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in late 19th or early 20th century sprinkled calf with gilt spine title: Ascuns/ Brooke/ 1597. Pasted to A1 verso, engraved 18th century armorial bookplate of Robert Jocelyn, Esq. At head of A1 verso, ms. note: "This Book is 257 years old" [i.e. written in 1854].

Bound in early vellum. Contemporary marginal annotations.