" THE METHODICALL PROSEC[UTION] Of causes in the high Court of Star Chamber from the originall subp[oena] vnto the hearing and end of the cause. Allso the order and proceedings of the Court vpon the sitting dayes in the hearing of causes and motions." With dedicatory letter, dated 20 Sept. 1622,...
" A TREATIS Of the high courte of Starr Chamber . . . . . written in the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles." The treatise is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the antiquity and general character of the Court and its officers, the second with the jurisdiction of the Court,...
TRACTS on the subject of Prohibitions issued by the Common- Law Judges to the Ecclesiastical Courts, to stay proceedings, etc. 1. " A declaration of the true groundes of Prohibicions to the High Commissioners, and the authority and reasons approvinge the same, with answeres to the obj eec ions...
" LAW MISCELLANIES " : copy of a volume of legal notes made by Sir Christopher Yelverton [Speaker of the House of Commons, 1597, Justice of the King's Bench, 1602-1612]. In the hand of John Anstis, Garter King of Arms; copied by leave of Talbot Yelverton, Earl of Sussex [1717-1731], in whose pos...
C0PIES of legal treatises, speeches, etc.:- 1. Charter of James 1. to the city of Chichester. Latin. f. 2. 2. Petition of the Mayor and Corporation of Chichester for an Act to compel the paving of the streets ; temp. Eliz. f. 18. 3. Argument of Serjeant [Thomas] Hedley iii the case of Bort...
LEGAL COLLECTIONS, with additions, viz.:- 1. Proceedings in connection with the suit of John [Bancroft], Bishop of Oxford, to recover a debt from Sir Edward Heron; 1633. f. 3. 2. " The argument of Sir Francis Bacon, knight, the kings Attorney- General, in the kings case de Rege inconsulto, b...
MISCELLANIES, legal and political:- 1. Reading of Edward Bagshaw on 25 Edw. III., c. 7, in the Middle Temple, 24 Feb. 1639 [40]; with index. From a MS. belonging to Sir Henry Yelverton. f. 3. 2. Reading of Henry Slierfield on 32 Hen. VIII. c. 1, of Wills, ill Lincoln's Inn, Easter term, 1624...
MISCELLANEOUS PAPFRS, chiefly relating to legal subjects, amongst them being:- 1. Notes on law cases, precedents, extracts from the works of Bracton, Glanville, and others, in the band of Thomas Parker, Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor in 1718. f 1. 2. Petition of Margaret Drummond, wid...
" OBSERVATIONS and overtures for a Sea fight uppon our owne coasts, and what kynd of order and disciplyne is fittest to bee used in martialling and directing our Navies . . . the first of March, 1618." With a dedicatory letter to George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral. Followe...