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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.54) | |
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| Author: | ?Francis Dickens (d. 1755) |
| Language: | English, with Latin |
| Origin: | England, Cambridge |
| Date: | 18th c., ca. 1711 - 1755 |
| Material: | Paper. Watermark; two lions supporting a shield (three saltire crosses on a pale), ?crown above (watermark in gutter) |
| Physical Description: | ii paper flyleaves + 354 pages (only paginated to p. 180), 196 x 154 (ca. 190 x 135) mm, 22 long lines, ruled (left margin only) in pencil |
| Rubric: | (p. 3) Citatio |
| Incipit: | Johannes Brookbank L.L.D., officialis venerabilis viri Richardi Bentley S.T.P., Archidiaconi Eliensis legitime constitutus |
| 2o folio: | surrogatum, aut alium |
| Explicit: | (p. 177) But ye party can oblige ye accomptant to prove his account by producing his wittnesses and vouchers before he need give his exceptions |
| Contents: | p. 1, List of The Steps of a Cause; pp. 3 – 177, Notes on steps of a Cause |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Scribe: | ?Francis Dickens (d. 1755) |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | ‘This book may be preserved’, mid-later 18th c. (fol. i recto); ‘Dr Dickins’, 19th c. (pencil, inside lower cover) |
| Binding: | 18th c., (late) quarter marbled paper and brown leather over paste boards |
| Notes: | Script of MS very similar to that of Francis Dickens, (Fellow 1705 – d. 1755); combined with the ?19th century pencil note cited in Provenance, the MS is assumed to be part of Dickens’s series of legal texts given to the College. Pencil note p. 2 that the first case cited is dated 1711. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
