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"Though called Judge Godbolt's Reports, this person seems only to have been the owner of the MS. from which the work was printed"--Wallace, Rep. 197.
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William Hughes (1587/8-1663?) was a translator and compiler of legal works.<ref>David Ibbetson, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28317 “Viner, Charles (bap. 1678, d. 1756)”], ‘’Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’’ (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed November 21, 2013.</ref> He studied at St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford and gained admission to Gray’s Inn in 1606.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Although there is no record of when he was called to bar, there is evidence that he was made an ancient in 1627.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1652, he published his Reports of Certain Cases, a compilation of Judge Godbolt’s works.<ref>John William Wallace, “The Reporters Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'' (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 197.</ref> Critical treatment of the work is scarce; however, later writers considered this work to be a 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),339.</ref>
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Although there is no record on the subject, scholars believe that Hughes died in 1663.<ref>David Ibbetson, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28317 “Viner, Charles (bap. 1678, d. 1756)”], ‘’Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’’ (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed November 21, 2013.</ref>
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<blockquote>Hughes was more of a translator and compiler of legal works than a reporter of cases in the strictest sense. His first published work was The Parson's Law (1641). On 25 September 1645 the Stationers' Company records an entry for The Mirror of Justice … Translated out of the Old French into English by William Hughes of Gray's Inn. Other works followed in the 1650s, including ''Reports of Certain Cases … Reviewed … by … Justice Godbolt'', published by Hughes in 1652. ''The Commentaries upon Original Writs'', which produced the original writs from the books, duly edited, was published in 1655. ''An Exact Abridgement of Public Acts'', covering 1640–56, appeared in 1657, and in 1659 he produced ''The Declarations and Other Pleadings'' in Coke's reports. <ref> Stuart Handley, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/69752 "Hughes, William (1587/8–1663?)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 5 June 2013.</ref> </blockquote>
 
  
 
==Bibliographic Information==
 
==Bibliographic Information==

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by William Hughes

William Hughes (1587/8-1663?) was a translator and compiler of legal works.[1] He studied at St. Alban’s Hall, Oxford and gained admission to Gray’s Inn in 1606.[2] Although there is no record of when he was called to bar, there is evidence that he was made an ancient in 1627.[3] In 1652, he published his Reports of Certain Cases, a compilation of Judge Godbolt’s works.[4] Critical treatment of the work is scarce; however, later writers considered this work to be a respectable authority.[5] Although there is no record on the subject, scholars believe that Hughes died in 1663.[6]

Bibliographic Information

Author: William Hughes.

Title: Reports of Certain Cases, Arising in the Severall Courts of Record at Westminster in the Raignes of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charles With the Resolutions of the Judges of the Said Courts, Upon Debate and Solemn Arguments.

Publication Info: London: Printed by T. N. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and Gabriell Bedell, 1652.

Edition: First edition; [12], 451 (i.e. 439), [19] pages.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Godbolt's reports 4to. and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. Editions were published in 1652 and 1653.[7] Both the Brown Bibliography[8] and George Wythe's Library[9] on LibraryThing include the 1652 edition. Thomas Jefferson also owned the 1652 edition.[10]

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy



View this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

References

  1. ↑ David Ibbetson, “Viner, Charles (bap. 1678, d. 1756)”, ‘’Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’’ (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed November 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Ibid.
  3. ↑ Ibid.
  4. ↑ John William Wallace, “The Reporters Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 197.
  5. ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847),339.
  6. ↑ David Ibbetson, “Viner, Charles (bap. 1678, d. 1756)”, ‘’Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’’ (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed November 21, 2013.
  7. ↑ J. G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography or a Thesaurus of American, English, Irish, and Scotch Law Books (Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1847), 339.
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on September 16, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
  10. ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:335 [no.2049].
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