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===by William Peere Williams===
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}}[[wikipedia:William Peere Williams (1664–1736)|William Peere Williams]] (1664/5 &ndash; 1736) was admitted to [[wikipedia:Gray's Inn|Gray's Inn]] in 1680 and became a member of the bar in 1687.<ref>D. E. C. Yale, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/29564 Williams, William Peere (1664/5–1736)]" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 7, 2013. Subsequent biographical facts also derive from this article.</ref> He served as [[wikipedia:Bencher|bencher]] of his Inn (1722) and treasurer from 1726 to 1728. Williams has been credited as "the first full and clear reporter of Chancery cases."<ref>John William Wallace, ''The Reporters, Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks'', 4th ed. (Boston: Soule and Bugbee, 1882), 499.</ref> Williams' reports were published posthumously by his son.

[[File:WilliamsReportsOf_CasesChancery1740v1Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece, volume one.</center>]]
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His collection of chancery cases was the product of a long professional career, covering the judgments in the court under seven lord chancellors, and the reports have always been regarded as a classical repository of equity jurisprudence in the early eighteenth century. William Peere Williams jun., published the first two volumes in 1740 (second edn, 1746) and the third in 1749, under the title ''Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench''. The reason for deferring the publication of the third volume was said in the preface to be the need for further revision and in some cases to supply the final decision from the registrar's decree books. The comparative quality of the third volume has been questioned, but the reports were dedicated to [[wikipedia:Lord Hardwicke|Lord Hardwicke]] and received his imprimatur, the chancellor contributing his own notes in at least one important case. The whole work has been cited with approval by later judges. The three folio volumes were reprinted in 1768, and their value enhanced by Samuel Compton Cox, who added scholarly notes to the fourth and fifth editions in 1787 and 1793.<ref>Yale, "Williams, William Peere (1664/5-1736)."</ref>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "P. W. rep. 3.v. fol." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[Dabney Carr]].  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> includes the first edition, while [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe]," accessed on April 21, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Folio editions of the first two volumes were published at London in 1740 and 1746; the third volume was published at London in 1749." The Wolf Law Library followed Brown's suggestion and acquired a copy of the first edition for the [[George Wythe Collection]].
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}}==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary full calf. Spines in seven compartments with decorative gilt stamps and raised bands. Has maroon label with gold title stamp and an engraved frontispiece in volume one. Each volume includes the nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, England. 

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/sets/72157658057426225/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/g9pr7p/alma991012280819703196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/WilliamsReportsOfCasesArguedAndDeterminedInTheHighCourtOfChancery1740Vol1.pdf Volume I] (38MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/WilliamsReportsOfCasesArguedAndDeterminedInTheHighCourtOfChancery1740Vol2.pdf Volume II] (37MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/WilliamsReportsOfCasesArguedAndDeterminedInTheHighCourtOfChancery1740Vol3.pdf Volume III] (30MB PDF)
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==See also==
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*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]
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==References==
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[[Category:William Peere Williams]]

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