No More Learning

Written in earlier half of the century; first
printed about 1525, again in 1528 and 1545, and see Novae Narrationes,
ante.
Fortescue, Sir John. De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Written c. 1470; printed
1537. Many editions during 16th and 17th centuries. Translated 1573.
Commentary by Waterhouse, E. 1663.
De Natura Legis Naturae. Written c. 1462; first published by lord Cler.
mont in 1864.
On the Governance of the Kingdom of England. Written c. 1471; first
published in 1714. Ed. Plummer, C. 1885.
Littleton, Sir Thomas. Tenures. Written c. 1475-80; printed c. 1481. Many
editions during 16th and 17th centuries. Commentary Coke. 1628.
Ed. Wambaugh, E. 1901. [Contains detailed bibliography. ]
Lyndewood, William. Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesiae Anglicanae.
Written c. 1433; printed c. 1480. Many editions during 16th and 17th
centuries.
Statham, Nicholas. Abridgment of Cases. Written c. 1490; printed c. 1495,
1585, 1679.
Statutes. For particulars of early printed editions, translations and abridg-
ments of the Statutes see the first volume of the Statutes of the Realm
(1235-1713) printed by the Record Commissioners, 11 vols. , 1810-28.
The Year Books. See ante.
IV. Sixteenth Century
Bekinsan, J. de. De supremo et absoluto regis imperio. 1546.
Brooke, Sir Robert. Le Graunde Abridgement. 1568.
A Reading upon the Statute of Magna Charta cap. 16. 1641.
A Reading on the Statute of Limitations. 1647.
Crompton, Richard. Office et Aucthoritie de Justices de Peace. 1583.
L’Authoritie et Jurisdiction des Courts de la Majestie de la Roygne.
1594, 1637.
Diversite des Courtes. Attributed to Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. Printed in
1523, 1526, 1530(? ), 1535 ff.
Dyer, Sir J. Reports in Law French. 1585 ff. Translation by Vaillant, J.
3 vols. 1794.
Entries. Intrationum liber omnibus legum Angliae studiosis apprime neces-
sarius in se complectens diversas formas placitorum. 1546.
Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. Le Graunde Abridgement. 1516.
La Nouvelle Natura Brevium. 1534.
L'Office et Auctoritie de Justices de Peace. 1538. Translation with
commentary by Hale, Sir M. 1635.
L'Office de Viconts, Bailiffes, Escheators, Constables, Coroners. 1538;
and included with some editions of the preceding.
Gentili, Alberico. De Legationibus. 1585.
De Jure Belli. 1588-9.
Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo. 1613.
For an estimate and the scheme of these three works, see Walker's
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National Biography contains a complete list of Gentili's writings published
and unpublished.
Lambard, William. Archaionomia, sive de priscis Anglorum Legibus libri.
1568. Republished with Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, 1644.
Eirenarcha, or the Office of Justices of the Peace. 1581.
The Duty of Constables. 1582.
Archeion, or a commentary upon the High Courts of Justice. 1635.
Manwood, John. A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest. 1592.
Perkins, John. The ‘Profitable Book' ('perutilis tractatus magistri Jo.
Parkins'). 1532.
Plowden, Edmund. Les commentaires ou les Reportes. 1571 ff.
Les Quaeres. Included in some editions of the Reports. Translated into
English. 1662, 1761, 1779, 1816.
Pulton, Ferdinando. An Abstract of all the Penal Statutes. 1579, 1586.
Collection of Statutes. Published in several editions between 1606 and
1615.
De Pace Regis et Regni, viz. A Treatise declaring which be the great
and general offences of the realm. 1609, 1610, 1615.
Rastell, John. Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum. 1527.
Sometimes attributed to his son William who published an English
translation 1567, rptd several times and known in the 17th century as Les
Termes de la Ley.
Rastell, William. A Collection of all the Statutes from the beginning of
Magna Carta until the yere of our Lord 1557. 1559.
Continued by Pulton (q. v. ).
A Collection of Entrees, of Declarations, Barros, Replications. . . and
divers other matters. 1556, 1574, 1596.
Registrum Omnium Brevium, tam Originalium, quam Judicialium. 1531,
1553 and various later eds.
St German, Christopher. Doctor and Student. First published under the
title Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum et de Conscientia. 1523. Many
later editions down to 1874.
Smith, Sir Thomas. De Republica Anglorum. 1583 ff. Ed. Maitland, F. W.
and Alston, L. Cambridge, 1907.
Statutes of the Realm. See ante.
Staundford, Sir W. Les Plees del Coron. 1560, 1567, 1574, 1583.
An Exposicion of the Kinge's Prerogative. 1567, 1568, 1577, 1590.
Swinburne, Henry. A Briefe treatise of Testaments and Last Willes. 1590.
A Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts. 1686, 1711.
Theloall, S. Le Digest des Briefes Originals. 1579.
West, W. Symboleographie. 1590.
V. Seventeenth Century
Aston, R. Placita Latine Rediviva: A Book of Entries. 1661. 3rd ed.
1673.
Bacon, Sir Francis (viscount St Albans). See Works edited by Ellis, Sped-
ding and Heath, 2nd ed. , 7 vols. , 1870.
The Use of the Law. 1629.
Maxims of the Law. 1630.
Reading of the Statute of Uses. 1642.
Ordinances for the better. . .
administration of Justice in Chancery. 1642.
Bacon, Nathaniel. An historical discourse of the Uniformity of the Govern-
ment of England. 1647-51.
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Blount, Thomas. A Law Dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure
Words and Terms as are found either in our Common or Statute, Ancient
and Modern Lawes. 1670, 1690, 1717.
Bridall, John. Speculum Juris Anglicani. 1673.
And many other works, down to 1704.
Bridgman, Sir 0. Conveyances. 1682.
Brown, William. Formulae bene Placitandi. A Book of Entries. 1671.
Praxis Almae Curiae Cancellariae, A Collection of Precedents. 1694-5.
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And numerous other works.
Callis, Robert. Reading upon the Statute 23 H. VIII, cap. 5, of Sewers. 1647,
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Carew, Sir George (d. 1612). Reports on Causes in Chancery. 1650, 1665, 1820.
Clayton, J. Topicks in the Laws of England. 1646.
Coke, Sir E. Reports. 11 vols. 1600-15. Vol. XII. 1656. Vol. XIII. 1659.
Numerous eds.
A Booke of Entries. 1614, 1671.
Institutes. Part I. 1628. Part II. 1642. Parts III and iv. 1644.
Numerous eds.
The Compleat Copyholder. 1630.
A Little Treatise of Bail and Mainprize. 1635.
Reading on the Statute 27 Edward I. 1662.
Commonwealth Acts. See Scobell.
Cowell, John. Institutiones Juris Anglicani ad Methodum Institutionum
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Interpreter. 1607. Expurgated eds. 1637, 1672, 1684, 1701, 1709, 1727.
Cumberland, Richard. De Legibus Naturae disquisitio philosophica. 1672.
Dalrymple, Sir James (1619-1695). Decisions of the Lords of Council and
Session. 1683-7.
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Dalton, Michael. The Countrey Justice. 1618 and various subsequent eds.
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Officium Vicecomitum, or the Office and Authoritie of Sheriffs. 1623.
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Common Law of the Realme of England. 1601, 1618.
Godolphin, John. A View of the Admiralty Jurisdiction. 1661, 1685.
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1685, 1701.
Repertorium Canonicum, or an Abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Laws.
1678, 1680, 1687.
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Hale, Sir Matthew. London's Liberties. 1650.
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Jurisdiction of the House of Lords. 1707. Rptd 1796.


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A chapter of this had been published in 1700 with the title De Succes-
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Historia Placitorum Coronae. 1736.
For particulars of his manuscripts and treatises ascribed to him, see
D. of N. B.
Hawke, Michael. The Groundes of the Laws of England. 1657.
Hawke, Sir John. The Englishman's Right. 1680.
Hobbes, Thomas. The Elements of Law. 1650. Ed. Tonnies, F. 1889.
Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Law of
England. 1681.
Hughes, W. Abridgment. 3 vols. 1660-2.
Kitchin, John. Jurisdictions, or the lawful authority of the Courts Leet,
Courts Baron, Court of Marshalseyes, Court of Pypowder and Ancient
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Malynes, Gerard. Lex Mercatoria, or the Ancient Law Merchant. 1622,
1629 and later eds.
Prynne, William. The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms. 1643.
A. . . Collection of the good old Fundamentall Liberties. . . Laws of all
English Freemen. 1654-5.
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Brief Animadversions on the fourth part of the Institutes of Sir Edward
Coke. 1669.
Regula placitandi : a collection of Special Rules for Pleading. 1691, 1694.
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