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<blockquote> Sir Henry Finch, author and lawyer, was the third born but second surviving son of Sir Thomas Finch (d. 1563) of Eastwell, Kent, and his wife, Katherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Moyle. After the death of Henry's soldier father his mother married the puritan lawyer and member of parliament Nicholas St Leger, who in 1572 arranged for his stepson's admission to Christ's College, Cambridge, under Laurence Chaderton. Besides consolidating Finch's godly zeal, his tutor encouraged him to study Hebrew and embrace the dialectical method of the French philosopher Peter Ramus, whose influence pervades a Latin commentary on Horace's Odes presented to his stepfather in 1577. After graduating BA and serving briefly as sub-lector of Christ's, Finch entered Gray's Inn. There his legal studies led to the composition (c.1585) of ‘Nomotexnia’, a brief but ambitious treatise which sought to systematize English common law along Ramist lines, as well as bringing it into closer conformity with the laws of Moses...''Nomotexnia; Cestascavoir: un description del common ley Dangleterre solonque les rules del art'', a handsome law-French folio with a fulsome dedication to James I, expands the two books of the 1580s manuscript to four, adds copious explanatory material and citations, but drops all explicit reference to remodelling English law along Mosaic lines. <ref> Wilfrid Prest, ‘Finch, Sir Henry (c.1558–1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9436, accessed 6 June 2013] </ref> </blockquote>
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Finch Sir Henry Finch] author and lawyer, attended Christ's College, Cambridge, graduated with a BA and entered Gray's Inn. <blockquote>There his legal studies led to the composition (c.1585) of ‘Nomotexnia’, a brief but ambitious treatise which sought to systematize English common law along Ramist lines, as well as bringing it into closer conformity with the laws of Moses...''Nomotexnia; Cestascavoir: un description del common ley Dangleterre solonque les rules del art'', a handsome law-French folio with a fulsome dedication to James I, expands the two books of the 1580s manuscript to four, adds copious explanatory material and citations, but drops all explicit reference to remodelling English law along Mosaic lines. <ref> Wilfrid Prest, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9436 ‘Finch, Sir Henry (c.1558–1625)’], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 6 June 2013.</ref> </blockquote>
  
 
==Bibliographic Information==
 
==Bibliographic Information==
'''Author:''' Sir Henry Finch, (1558-1625)
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'''Author:''' Sir Henry Finch (1558-1625)
  
 
'''Title:''' Nomotexnia: Cestascavoir, Vn Description del Common Leys Dangleterre Solonque les Rules Del Art: Parallelees ove les Prerogatives le Roy. Ovesque Auxy le Substance & Effect de les Estatutes (Disposes en Lour Proper Lieux) per le Quels le Common Ley est Abridge, Enlarge, ou Ascunment Alter, del Commencement de Magna Charta fait 9. H.3. Tanque a Cest Jour
 
'''Title:''' Nomotexnia: Cestascavoir, Vn Description del Common Leys Dangleterre Solonque les Rules Del Art: Parallelees ove les Prerogatives le Roy. Ovesque Auxy le Substance & Effect de les Estatutes (Disposes en Lour Proper Lieux) per le Quels le Common Ley est Abridge, Enlarge, ou Ascunment Alter, del Commencement de Magna Charta fait 9. H.3. Tanque a Cest Jour
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[[Thomas Jefferson]] quoted this specific edition in his commonplace book but no evidence exists that he ever owned a copy.<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> The commonplace entry most likely dates from his period as Wythe's student when Jefferson had ready access to Wythe's library.
  
 
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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
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Revision as of 16:07, 27 June 2013

by Sir Henry Finch

Sir Henry Finch author and lawyer, attended Christ's College, Cambridge, graduated with a BA and entered Gray's Inn.
There his legal studies led to the composition (c.1585) of ‘Nomotexnia’, a brief but ambitious treatise which sought to systematize English common law along Ramist lines, as well as bringing it into closer conformity with the laws of Moses...Nomotexnia; Cestascavoir: un description del common ley Dangleterre solonque les rules del art, a handsome law-French folio with a fulsome dedication to James I, expands the two books of the 1580s manuscript to four, adds copious explanatory material and citations, but drops all explicit reference to remodelling English law along Mosaic lines. [1]

Bibliographic Information

Author: Sir Henry Finch (1558-1625)

Title: Nomotexnia: Cestascavoir, Vn Description del Common Leys Dangleterre Solonque les Rules Del Art: Parallelees ove les Prerogatives le Roy. Ovesque Auxy le Substance & Effect de les Estatutes (Disposes en Lour Proper Lieux) per le Quels le Common Ley est Abridge, Enlarge, ou Ascunment Alter, del Commencement de Magna Charta fait 9. H.3. Tanque a Cest Jour

Published: London: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1613.

Edition:

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Thomas Jefferson quoted this specific edition in his commonplace book but no evidence exists that he ever owned a copy.[2] The commonplace entry most likely dates from his period as Wythe's student when Jefferson had ready access to Wythe's library.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Bound in early calf, boards embossed with arabesqes. Rebacked and recornered in sheep, with remnants of the earlier back laid down. Purchased from Nostre Livers.

References

  1. Wilfrid Prest, ‘Finch, Sir Henry (c.1558–1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 6 June 2013.
  2. 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