Lansdowne MS 627

folio.

A work on Flemish Jurisprudence, intitled "Briefve Instruction pour josnes gens veuillans hanter la practique en causes civilles et criminelles en la chambre du Conte de Flandres. Par Maitre Philippes Willant Seigneur de Everbecque, Conseiller du grand Conseil à Malines." Two volumes in one. Mr. Umfreville states, in a note written on the first leaf, that "this work is not to be found in the industrious collection of Lipenius, in his Bibliotheca Realis amongst his Juridica." The civil part has been printed however at Antwerp, 1573, 8vo. The remaining part of the present volume, viz. the treatise on criminal law, has never been published but much of it has been introduced, without acknowledgment, in the "Praxis rerum criminalium" of Jodocus, or Josse, Damhoudere, of which there are at least three curious and interesting editions. The author of this manuscript is better known by the name of Wielandt. He was a Counsellor of the Parliament of Philip Duke of Burgundy, and afterwards President of the Supreme Court of the Earl of Flanders.