[Collectanea concerning the Court of Chancery
By: by William Lambarde and others]. The Courte of the Exchequer.
Contributors: Lambarde, William, 1536-1601.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Published: 1640
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: England and Wales. Court of Chancery -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, English
Other titles: Courte of the Exchequer. 1640.; Discourse of the high courtes of justice in England.; William Lambarde on the courts of justice.
Notes: Baker, J.H.  English legal manuscripts in the U.S.A., II, 340 ("Law MS. 14")
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Caption title, p. [1]: A discourse of the high courtes of justice in England ... written by William Lambert ...; the caption is applicable to the text through p. [26].
Spine title: William Lamb[arde] on the courts of justice.
Notes in modern hand on 1st flyleaf identify the work incorrectly as Lambarde's Archeion.
Text begins: That which we call courte in French is called curia in Lattine.
W. Lambarde (d. 1601) may have compiled and in part annotated some or most of the materials collected on p. [27-209]; those which follow have largely originated 1601-1616.
The Courte of the Exchequer" (p. [377-434]), a study with selected cases through 1601, names on p. [403] Fanshaw (Thomas), perhaps as author of a section; it is, however, different from the work formerly attributed to him, also from Lambarde's discussion of that court in his Archeion.
Written no doubt in England.
Date of the copy based on watermark, identical throughout the text block: double candlestick (lettered VAD/ON[?]) surmounted by pine cone.
Pages [375-6] and [435-440] blank (ruled).
Modern pencil foliation, 1-216, omits ruled blank leaf following that marked 187.
The text block is preceded by 4 and followed by 6 leaves with crowned-lily watermark; all except the first are blank.
Previous owners: M. Bayley (inscribed on 1st flyleaf); Sir Thomas Phillipps (p. [1]: "Phillipps MS. 15142"); F. William Cock M.D. (bookplate); accessioned in LC in 1944 (LL 5108D3; for a time referred to as Law Library ms. 14).
"An unpublished law manuscript" (description): 2 typewritten sheets tipped to 1st flyleaf.
Table of contents: title: A discourse of the high courtes of justice in England, and especially of the Chancery Courte / William Lambarde (1576); title: The argumentes ... proving that the noblemens persons be attachable ... / Nicholas Bacon; title: [On the clerks and cursitors of the Chancery : observations and documents, 1558-1603]; title: An order ... by Thomas Wolsey ... to limitt John Earle of Oxenford (1524); title: Ordinancies ... for remedie of sundry abuses in Chancerie (1596/7); title: Orders for the seme makeinge upp of the Rolles of the Chancery (1599); title: Meanes to restrayne the multitude ... of suites in Chancery (after 1561); title: The auncient oath used to be ministred to the Lord Chancellor; title: Latitates in the Kings Bench ... unprofittable writtes; title: Ordinaunces explayned / by Mastere Crooke (1554); title: Ordinances sett downe by the Clerkes of the Imolements (1578/9); title: The antiquities of the Lord Chancellour of England his office / Francis Tate; title: An acte of Councell to establish an order ... Ilands of Jersey & Gurnethey (1565; another, 1571); title: The constituc[i]ons and orders ... in the pryson of the Fleete (1561); title: Certayne notes and observac[i]ons uppon the statuta of Magna Carta ... concerninge ... the Chauncery / Thomas Egerton (1615); title: Some notes ... uppon the statute of prouisors / Thomas Egerton; title: [Various documents to the case of Sir Edward Coke] (1616); title: [Further pieces on the provisors and on praemunire offenses, through 1616]; title: Orders made by the Lord Chancellor for the better ... administration of justice in the Chancery (undated); title: The Courte of the Exchequer (not before 1601)