Lord Chief Justice, and after Lord Chancellor to King Henry VI. Translated into
English, [by Francis Gregor] illustrated with the Notes of Mr. Selden, and great variety of remarks with respect to the antiquities, history, and Laws
of England. To which are prefix’d Mr. Selden to the Reader, and a large Historical Preface. To the whole are added the preface
of the first editor, with the Testimonies of Bale, Pitts, and Du Fresne; the Summs of Sir Ralph de Hengham, Lord Chief Justice
to King Edward I. commonly call’d Hengham Magna and Hengham Parva, with Mr. Selden’s notes; and a copious index. The
second edition. [
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
Henry Lintot (Assignee of
E. Sayer, Esq;) for
Daniel Browne,
mdccxli
. [1741]
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Folio. 2 parts in 1. 107 and 45 leaves in twos, engraved frontispiece by G. Vander Gucht; publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the half-title; catalogue of authors quoted, 2 pages; of the Books written by
Sir John Fortescue as in Mr. Casley’s printed Catalogue, 4to. Lond. 1734, 1 page.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 17, 24.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers. Initialled
by Jefferson at sig. I and T[.]
Sir John Fortescue, 1394-1476?, chief justice of the King’s bench, and legal writer. This work was written about 1470 for the instruction of
Edward Prince of Wales in exile at Berry, and is in the form of a conversation between Fortescue and the prince. It was first
printed in 1567 and was translated by Robert Mulcaster and printed in numerous editions. The first edition by Francis Gregor
appeared in 1737.
Ralph de Hengham, d. 1311, judge, was the author of the two manuals of practice
Hengham Magna
and
Hengham Parva
, first edited by Selden in 1616.
[1775]
J. 11
Fitzherbert’s abridgment
p. fol.
Tottell.
1577.
1815 Catalogue, page 76. no. 162, as above.
FITZHERBERT,
Sir Anthony.
1577. La Graunde Abridgement, collecte par le Iudge tresreuerend mõsieur Anthony Fitzherbert, dernierment Conferre ouesque la Copye escript et per ceo correcte, ouesque le nombre del fueil, per quel facilement poies
trouer les cases cy Abrydges en les Liuers dans, nouelment annote: iammais deuaunt imprimes . . . [La secounde part.]
[
London] In ædibus
Richardi Tottelli vicesimo die Augusti.
1577. Cum priuilegio.
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2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. I, 342 leaves: A-Z, Aa-Tt
8, Uu
6[;] II, 333 leaves: [ ]
1, A
7, B-Z, AA-II
8, KK
10, A-H
8, I
3; colophon on sig. KK
10 and on the last leaf; title-pages within woodcut borders [McKerrow 153]; black letter; the last alphabet for Rastell’s
Tabula
.
STC 10957.
Beale, 466, 7, 8.
Cowley 71.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved on the new endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T. The autograph signature
Thomas Browne[?] on the title-page; manuscript notes, not by Jefferson. The life of the author from
Woods Athenae Oxon. 50. written in an early hand (?Sir John Randolph) on a blank leaf at the beginning (backed).
This work is referred to by Jefferson in his above mentioned letters to Thomas Cooper, in 1814.
Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, 1470-1538, English judge.
La Graunde Abridgement, first printed in 1516, is a digest of the year-books under appropriate titles in alphabetical order. It also includes cases
not found in the year-books, but which had been accepted as authorities in the courts.
John Rastell, d. 1536, printer and lawyer. His
Tabula was first printed in 1517.
[1776]
