The IVth. Part of the Collection consists of twelve Volumes, Num. 464 to 475. Of these, the first Six Volumes are Copies of Notes in manuscript of the late Mr. Capper, who was a practising Barrister of eminence and extensive business in Chancery during the whole time of Lord Hardwicke's being Chancellor, and for some few Years before and after. Two of the six Volumes, (beside the regular number of the Manuscript) are marked A. No. 1. and A. No. 2. and cited accordingly both in Sir Thomas Sew...
Vol. II. The second Volume, besides the Cases, contains a Reading by Sir Henry Calthorpe on the Stat. 21 Jac. I. c. 2. concerning Concealments, which appears to have been prepared after he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards, to which place he was appointed in January 1635. Calthorpe: Read...
The First Part of the Collection, Num. 436 to Num. 447 inclusive, contains Sir Thomas Sewell's References to Equity Cases. In it the Cases referred to are thrown together in a digested way, under various divisions or titles of Equity, which are not placed alphabetically, but were probably adopted by Sir Thomas from time to time as he found it convenient. The want of Alphabetical Order is compensated by an Index in another Part of the Collection which will presently be noticed. The twelve Vo...
The IId. Part of the Collection, Num. 448 to 462 inclusive, contains Sir Thomas Sewell's Abridgement of Equity Cases, in fifteen Volumes: marked alphabetically from A. to N. in the same manner in which the original bundles were marked in Sir Thomas Sewell's hand whence, with permission from his Administrators, they were transcribed.