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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reports of Divers Choice Cases in Law, Taken by Those Late and Most Judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough''}}
===by Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough===
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Richard Brownlow (1553-1638) entered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Temple Middle Temple] in 1583 and became Chief Protonotary of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_%28England%29 Court of Common Pleas] in 1590, a position he held until his death. <ref>Christopher W. Brooks, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/3715 Brownlow, Richard (1553–1638)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref> John Goldesborough (1568-1618) joined the Middle Temple in 1613, the year he was also appointed Second Prothonotary of Common Pleas.<ref>David Ibbetson, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10905 Goldesburg, John (1568–1618)], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref><br />
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Historians differ somewhat on the authorship of the two volumes of Brownlow's and Goldesborough's reports. John WIlliam Wallace writes, "the first volume is by Brownlow and Goldesborough; the second by Brownlow alone."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 164.</ref> One Brownlow biographer disagrees with the joint attribution, stating the "collection of ''Reports'' ... had evidently been gathered by Brownlow alone."<ref>Brooks, "Brownlow, Richard."</ref> In contrast, a Goldesborough biographer claims, "Contemporary evidence is unanimous in attributing the first part of these to Goldesburg, and there is no good reason to doubt his authorship."<ref>Ibbetson, "Goldesburg, John."</ref> Regardless of the how attribution is distributed among the two, "these reports are not in the first rank of Elizabethan and Jacobean reports, they are workmanlike and succinct, paying particular attention to points of process and procedure."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Both [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 9 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> suggest Wythe owned the 1675 edition of the first and second parts of this title based on notes in John Marshall's commonplace book.<ref>Herbert A. Johnson, Charles T. Cullen, and Nancy G. Harris, eds., ''The Papers of John Marshall,'' (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, in association with the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974), 1:42.</ref> The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy which combined the 3rd edition (1675) of volume one with the 2nd edition (also 1675) of volume two bound together.
[[File:BrownlowReportsOfDiversChoiceCases1675Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|200px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]]

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in early, perhaps contemporary, calf with blind rules, red morocco label, and gilt lettering to spine. Cover includes tooled design. Contains brief description noted on edge of text-block and the inscription "I warrant these Reports [???], Dan: Browne" on the front free endpaper. Purchased from Longland Books. 

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==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*''[[Brownlow Latine Redivivus]]''
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Common Pleas Reports]]
[[Category:George Wythe Collection at William & Mary's Wolf Law Library]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]
[[Category:EDITED]]