The Reports of Edward Bulstrode in three Parts of divers Resolutions and Judgments given with great Advice and Mature Deliberation by the Gravem reverend, and learned Judges and Sages of the Law, of Cases and Matters in the Law: with the Reasons and Causes of their said Judgments given in the Court of Kings Bench, in the time of the Reign of King James I. and Kind Charles I.

BULSTRODE, Edward,

Published by London, printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycraft and M. Flesher, Assigns of Rich and Edw. Atkyns Esquires., 1688

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The second Jmpression carefully corrected; with the Addition of Thousands of References never before printed. Folio. (1:) Titelblatt, (16), 223, (36) S.; (2:) Titelblatt, (16), 358, (32) S.; (3:) Titelblatt, (18), 341, (22) S. Zeitgemäßer Halblederband mit Buntpapierüberzug auf den Buchdeckeln. The author took his reports in French, and translated them into English for publication. It appears that he had a part of his manuscript published, selecting, as he says, "the fittest and choicest cases out of those reports which I have with no small care, labor and pains, collected together". The prefaces to the parts, or rather dedications, are curiosities in point of language and character of composition, eminently characteristic of the English style of writing in the early part of the seventeenth century. In this respect Bulstrode appears to have attempted to rival "that Leviathan of the Law" Lord Coke. Among others the reports have the imprimatur of Lord Hale, as follows- "I have perused divers cases in these reports, and I Think they are fit to be published." - Matthew Hale. There is a chasm in the pagination of the second part of the reports, but the book is perfect. (Marvin 158-159).

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• Title: The Reports of Edward Bulstrode in three Parts of divers Resolutions and Judgments given with great Advice and Mature Deliberation by the Gravem reverend, and learned Judges and Sages of the Law, of Cases and Matters in the Law: with the Reasons and Causes of their said Judgments given in the Court of Kings Bench, in the time of the Reign of King James I. and Kind Charles I.
• Publisher: London, printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycraft and M. Flesher, Assigns of Rich and Edw. Atkyns Esquires.
• Publication Date: 1688
• Binding: Hardcover
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