Legal notebook [manuscript], ca. 1581-ca. 1593.
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Title
Legal notebook [manuscript], ca. 1581-ca. 1593.
Description
1 item (41 leaves)
Scope and content
Apparently kept by a justice of the peace who attended the Quarter Sessions at Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Contents include proverbs, maxims, and a list of the kinds of cases likely to come before a justice of the peace, leaves 5-9. Most of the offenses are stated more fully on leaves 14-31, giving the penalty and citing the statute(s).
Genre/form
Maxims.
Manuscripts (documents)
Proverbs.
Manuscripts (documents)
Proverbs.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Horncastle.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.485
Folger accession
MS Add 791