Hargrave MS 436-447

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 Volumes which form this Portion of the Collection are lettered alphabetically from A. to M. At the top of each page in each Volume is written a Division on some general head or title of Equity. Under this division are placed references to such Cases in the printed Reports, or in any Manuscript Note in his possession as Sir Thomas Sewell thought applicable to it. The Titles of Equity and Divisions upon them adopted in the course of these Volumes are so various, and the references are so numerous and well classed upon each division, that the reader may in general expect to find almost every authority to be met with on each subject in the printed Equity Reports prior to Lord Hardwicke's having the Great Seal, or in the Manuscript Notes of Cases in Equity during his Lordship's time as Lord Chancellor and for some Years before.