NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Sept. 15. 1855. 



Coutmuatioii oi ffo^^*^ Buticre^* 



In the Next Tear will be published 



THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND 



SKETCHES OF THEIK LIVES, 



AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES CONNECTED WITH THE 



COURTS AT WESTMINSTER. 



By EDWARD FOBS, RS.A, 



Vol. v. — The Tudors. 

 Vol. VI. — The Stuarts. 



*^* Any communication relative to the Judges who flourished under those dynasties -will be gratefully 

 received by the Author, if addressed to him at Street-End House, near Canterbury. 



Opinions of the Press on the first Four Volumes published hy Longman Sf Co., comprehending tlie period from the Conquest 



to the end of the Line of York, 1483. 



" It supplies what was much wanted, — a regular and progressive ac- 

 count of English institutions. The result is a correction of many errors, 

 an addition of much new information, and a better general view of our 

 strictly legal history than any other jurist, historian, or biographer had 

 heretofore attempted to give." — Examiner. 



" The portion before us (Vols. III. and IV.) is in no respect inferior 

 to that which was first published. It is now manifest that, quite apart 

 from any biographical interest belonging to it, the work, in its com- 

 plete state, will supply a regular and progressive account of English 

 legal institutions, such as exists in no other equally accessible form in 

 our language." — Examiner. 



"The two former volumes established Mr. Toss's reputation as an 

 author. It would be difficult to point out any other work in which is 

 contained so much valuable matter, combined with so much incident 

 interesting to the legal antiquary." — Standard. 



" In the sense of research this work may be said to be original." — 

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" Too high praise cannot be awarded to Mr. Foss for careful and 

 painstaking research. ... He has rejected the husk of archosology, 

 and presented the kernel. His conclusions are not merely sound, his 

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" The Judges of England is an excellent book, and will, without 

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" These additional volumes deserve a hearty welcome from the read- 

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" Lord Campbell boasts of ' the Cancellarian mummies which he has 

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 of an Mstorical interest, and the animation of a real existence.' ' — Gen- 

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" It is the distinction of Mr. Foss's book, that he builds everything 

 upon authority, and quotes authority for everything. ... He has 

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 than any single work published since Madox's ' History of the Ex- 

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" Our description will be sufficient to show how valuable an addition 

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" A work which cannot be too highly estimated, whether for the im- 

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" Mr. Foss deserves infinite credit for the industry and perseverance 

 of his investigations, and for his judicious use of the materials at hand. 

 . . . All possible assistance is due to Mr. Foss in return for the patient 

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" "We believe that this is the only work of the kind."— Xaw Magazine. 



" Mr. Foss, as he proceeds with his arduous researches, is picking up. 

 some bits of much antiquated interest. His book must not be judged as 

 a history of all the judges, so much as in the light of fragments of the 

 history of their times." —Law Magazine. 



" The work of Mr. Foss is the only one which is at all to be relied 

 on." — Ramhler. 



" The reputation which Mr. Foss acquired, as a diligent investigator 

 of legal antiquities, and .an impartial biographer of those who have won 

 for themselves seats on the woolsack or tlie bench, by the publication of 

 the first two volumes, will be more than confirmed by the 3rd and 4th 

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