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Revision as of 14:48, 9 September 2015
by Sir Humphrey Winch
| Le Beau-Pledeur: A Book of Entries | |
 Title page from Le Beau-Pledeur: A Book of Entries, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary. | |
| Author | Sir Humphrey Winch |
| Published | London: Printed by George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft ... for Thomas Basset ... Richard Chiswell, and Benjamin Tooke |
| Date | 1680 |
| Edition | First |
| Language | English |
| Pages | [8], 1183 [i.e. 1067], [85] |
| Desc. | Folio (36 cm.) |
| Location | Shelf L-5 |
Winch’s work, Le Beau-Pledeur: A Book of Entries continues in a tradition of published collections of precedents of pleading which dates back to as early as 1510.[3] Arranged alphabetically by the writs which begin the actions, Le Beau-Pledeur, like other works of this type, throws "overboard any notion of combining reports of cases, or notes upon the law, with the forms" which it gives.[4] Nevertheless, while Sir Humphrey Winch may have spent his last days disgraced by the Leicester Witch Trials, his collection of cases and pleadings for civil procedure graced law libraries across early America, the founding fathers, England, Ireland, and France, and preserved his legacy as a significant contributor to modern civil proceedings.[5]
Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library
Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Winch's entries. folio and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. The 1680 edition appears to be the only edition of Le Beau-Pledeur: A Book of Entries published.[6] Accordingly, both the Brown Bibliography[7] and George Wythe's Library[8] on LibraryThing include the 1680 edition. The Wolf Law Library moved a copy of the same edition from another rare book collection to the George Wythe Collection.
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Rebound in period style with red title label. Includes the signature of "Geo: Kenyon" on the title page. Purchased through the generosity of Daniel W. Baran and Lena Stratton Baran, Class of 1936.
View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.
See also
References
- ↑ Wilfrid Prest, "Winch, Sir Humphrey (1554/5–1625)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed October 10, 2013.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Percy H. Winfield, The Chief Sources of English Legal History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925), 303-304.
- ↑ Ibid, 304.
- ↑ Howell J. Heaney, "A Signer of the Declaration of Independence Orders Books from London: Two Documents of George Read of Delaware in the Hampton L. Carson Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia," The American Journal of Legal History 2, no. 2 (1958): 181.
- ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 741.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013.
