Lansdowne MS 1105

4to.

Sir Bartholomew Shower's own Note-book of Cases chiefly wherein he himself was Counsel, among which are several concerning the Customs of London, that have never been printed. On the first leaf is the following interesting note by the former possessor of the volume, Mr. Umfreville, "This MS. greatly controuls the printed Shower, and contains many good cases not printed, and seems to be his regulated collection of cases, prepared, as I conceive, by himself, and methodized from his notebooks, with a view to the press. But his papers after this death falling into the hands or a bookseller, he, causâ lucri, at different times printed his general collection without due consideration had of these selected cases, which were the only cases, I conceive, Sir Bartholomew intended for the press. E. U." Mr. Umfreville then notices the cases in this manuscript which are omitted in the printed copy. At the end of the volume are various biographical notices of Sir Bartholomew, likewise in his own hand, and the names of the cases reported, but not alphabetically.