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by John Fortescue-Aland

Although a learned lawyer, Fortescue Aland admitted to ‘want of assurance’, and seems to have been happier in his study than among ‘the noise and trouble of the world’ (BL, Stowe MS 750, fol. 28). In addition to researches in legal history, his scholarly work demonstrated an admiration for logic and mathematics. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 20 March 1712 and became an honorary doctor of civil law at Oxford in 1733. His Reports of Select Cases in All the Courts of Westminster-Hall was published in 1748. [1]

Bibliographic Information

Author: John Fortescue-Aland, (1670-1746)

Title: Reports of Select Cases in All the Courts of Westminster-Hall: Also the Opinion of All the Judges of England Relating to the Grandest Prerogative of the Royal Family, and Some Observations Relating to the Prerogative of a Queen Consort.

Publication Info: London, In the Savoy: Printed for H. Lintot, 1748.

Edition: First edition.

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Ordered by Wythe from John Norton & Sons in a letter dated May 8, 1770. Records indicate the order was fulfilled.[2] Listed in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Fortescue's rep. and given by Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr. [3] Three of the Wythe Collection sources (Dean's Memo[4], Brown's Bibliography[5] and George Wythe's Library[6] on LibraryThing) list this work. The fourth, Goodwin's pamphlet,[7] includes instead the author's treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliae, 2nd edition, 1741.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Rebound in brown buckram with autograph on the titlepage of Tho. Chippindale.

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

References

  1. David Lemmings, John Fortescue, first Baron Fortescue of Credan (1670–1746)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 30 May 2013.
  2. Frances Norton Mason, ed., John Norton & Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia: Being the Papers from their Counting House for the Years 1750 to 1795 (Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Press, 1937), 133-134. The letter is endorsed "Virga. 7 May 1770 / George Wythe / Recd. 18 June pr Dixon / Goods Entr. pa. 220/ Ansd. the 28th July."
  3. English Short Title Catalog, http://estc.bl.uk, search of "Fortescue" and "Reports" reveals only one folio edition.
  4. Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 7 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
  5. 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
  6. LibraryThing, s. v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on June 28, 2013, http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe
  7. Mary R. M. Goodwin, The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), xlvi. Available at http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml