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+ | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Keble Joseph Keble] (1632–1710) entered Gray's Inn in 1647 and became a member of the bar in 1653.<ref>Stuart Handley, [http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/15232 "Keble, Joseph (1632–1710)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 7 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.) Subsequent bibliographic facts also taken from this article.</ref> He never practiced law but attended the Court of King's Bench from 1661 onwards, taking notes of the cases he witnessed. Opinions regarding the quality of his reports are uniformly negative.<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed., rev. and enl., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 315. Wallace writes that one justice "burned his copy, thinking it not worth while to lumber his library with trash." </ref> Holdsworth explains "The main defect of Keble's reports is that he merely jotted town what he heard from day to day in court, without attempting to collect into a single narrative the history of any one case. Hence it is necessary to look into several places for cases which extend over several days."<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'', (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:557-558.</ref> Nevertheless, some historians have found value in the role Keble played as a mere "register", noting that "Keble's ''Reports'' help, often, to explain difficulties in contemporary Reports of better credit ..."<ref>Wallace, ''The Reporters'', 317.</ref> | ||
==Bibliographic Information== | ==Bibliographic Information== | ||
− | '''Author:''' Joseph Keble | + | '''Author:''' Joseph Keble. |
− | '''Title:''' Reports in the Court of Kings Bench at Westminster, from the XII to the XXX Year of the Reign of our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles II | + | '''Title:''' ''Reports in the Court of Kings Bench at Westminster, from the XII to the XXX Year of the Reign of our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles II''. |
'''Publication Info:''' London: Printed by W. Rawlins, S Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for Thomas Dring, Charles Harper, Samuel Keble, and William Freeman, 1685. | '''Publication Info:''' London: Printed by W. Rawlins, S Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for Thomas Dring, Charles Harper, Samuel Keble, and William Freeman, 1685. | ||
− | '''Edition:''' | + | '''Edition:''' First edition. |
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+ | '''Extent:''' Three volumes. | ||
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== | ==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library== |
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by Joseph Keble
Joseph Keble (1632–1710) entered Gray's Inn in 1647 and became a member of the bar in 1653.[1] He never practiced law but attended the Court of King's Bench from 1661 onwards, taking notes of the cases he witnessed. Opinions regarding the quality of his reports are uniformly negative.[2] Holdsworth explains "The main defect of Keble's reports is that he merely jotted town what he heard from day to day in court, without attempting to collect into a single narrative the history of any one case. Hence it is necessary to look into several places for cases which extend over several days."[3] Nevertheless, some historians have found value in the role Keble played as a mere "register", noting that "Keble's Reports help, often, to explain difficulties in contemporary Reports of better credit ..."[4]
Bibliographic Information
Author: Joseph Keble.
Title: Reports in the Court of Kings Bench at Westminster, from the XII to the XXX Year of the Reign of our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles II.
Publication Info: London: Printed by W. Rawlins, S Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins for Thomas Dring, Charles Harper, Samuel Keble, and William Freeman, 1685.
Edition: First edition.
Extent: Three volumes.
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
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References
- ↑ Stuart Handley, "Keble, Joseph (1632–1710)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 7 Sept 2013. (Subscription required for access.) Subsequent bibliographic facts also taken from this article.
- ↑ John William Wallace, The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks, 4th ed., rev. and enl., (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 315. Wallace writes that one justice "burned his copy, thinking it not worth while to lumber his library with trash."
- ↑ William Holdsworth, A History of English Law, (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:557-558.
- ↑ Wallace, The Reporters, 317.