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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Precedents in Chancery, Being a Collection of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, from the Years 1689 to 1722''}}
===Great Britain, Court of Chancery===
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}}First published in 1733 and covering cases from 1689 to 1722, ''Precedents in Chancery'' has been attributed to "Mr. [Henry] Pooley" and "Mr. Robins."<ref>Richard Whalley Bridgman, ''A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing Some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and other Law Writers'' (London: Printed for W. Reed, 1807), 264.</ref> Chief Baron Gilbert possessed the manuscript, but it was stolen and printed clandestinely after his death.<ref>W. S. Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1924), 6:618.</ref> "The cases are briefly reported, but are of respectable authority."<ref>J. G. Marvin, ''Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books'' (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 586.</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), 13 (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Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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 [[George Wythe|Wythe]] owned this title based on notes in [[John Marshall|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), 1:44.</ref>Both list the second (1747) edition as cited in ''The Papers of John Marshall''. However, the cases to which Marshall refers are on identical pages in the first (1733) and second  editions which means the edition Marshall used cannot be conclusively identified. Based on this ambiguity, and on availability, the Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the first edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Rebound in modern quarter-calf with marbled boards. Spine features six raised bands and green morocco label with gilt lettering.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157655715808504 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991025606629703196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/PrecedentsInChancery1733.pdf ''Precedents in Chancery''] (32MB PDF)

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

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

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