Reports of Certain Cases
by William Hughes
"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.
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. [1]
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.[2] Both the Brown Bibliography[3] and George Wythe's Library[4] on LibraryThing include the 1652 edition. Thomas Jefferson also owned the 1652 edition.[5]
Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
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References
- ↑ Stuart Handley, "Hughes, William (1587/8–1663?)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 5 June 2013.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file.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, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
- ↑ E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:335 [no.2049].
