Reginæ aut Willelmus Denney miles seu aliquis eorum sive aliquis alius nuper antehac habuit seu gavisus fuit. Necnon omnia et singula proficua advantagia emolumenta iura preheminencia confidencias seu alia quæcunque quæ ad unum Consiliariorum nostrorum ad legem. [The rest of the patent is substantially in the same form as Finch's patent.]

Richard Shelton.

Patent Roll (Chancery), 8 Charles I., part i,

no. 3.

Rex omnibus ad quos etc. Salutem. Sciatis quod nos pro diversis bonis causis et consideracionibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus de gratia nostro speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris constituimus ordinavimus et appunctuavimus ac per præsentes pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris constituimus ordinamus et appunctuamus Ricardum Shelton militem Consiliarium nostrum ad legem sive unum de Consilio nostro erudito in lege. Dedimus etiam et concessimus ac per præsentes pro nobis et heredibus et successoribus nostris damus et concedimus prefato Ricardo Shelton omnia et singula proficua advantagia emolumenta iura preheminencia confidencias seu alia quæcunque quæ ad unum Consiliariorum nostrorum ad legem ut Consiliario hujusmodi et minime ratione alicuius specialis officii spectant aut pertinent aut spectare aut pertinere consueverunt aut de iure debent. Volumus etiam et concedimus nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris quod præfatus Ricardus Shelton habeat plenam et sufficientem potestatem et auctoritatem ad omnia et singula præstanda exequenda et perimplenda quæ quivis alius de Consilio nostro prædicto et minime ratione alicuius specialis officii possit exequi et perimplere habendum et tenendum gaudendum percipiendum et exercendum potestatem authoritatem proficua ac omnia et singula præconcessa sive præexpressa prefato Ricardo Shelton quamdiu nobis placuerit. [The rest of the patent is substantially in the same form as Finch's patent.]

Thomas Levingston.

Patent Roll, 10 Charles I, part xxxix, no. 10.

Rex omnibus ad quos etc. Sciatis quod nos pro diversis causis et consideracionibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris constituimus ordinavimus et appunctuavimus ac per præsentes pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris constituimus ordinamus et appunctuamus Thomam Levingston Armigerum Consiliarium nostrum ad legem sive unum de Consilio nostro erudito in lege. [The rest of the patent is substantially in the same form as Finch's patent.]

Patent Roll (Chancery) 17 Charles I., part i,

no. 2.

Francis North.

This patent is on exactly the same lines as the others. It is dated April 22, 20 Charles II., and is on the Patent Roll 20 Charles II., part iv, no. 24.

The Modern Form.

GEORGE THE FIFTH BY THE GRACE OF GOD of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King Defender of the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: KNOW YE that We of our especial grace have constituted ordained and appointed our trusty and well beloved one of our Counsel learned in the Law And We have also given and granted unto him as one of our Counsel aforesaid place precedence and preaudience next after

in our Courts. And We also will and grant to the said

In witness

full power and sufficient authority to perform do and fulfil all and every the things which any other of our Counsel learned in the Law as one of our said Counsel may do and fulfil. We will that this our Grant shall not lessen any Office by Us or by our Ancestors heretofore given or granted. whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Ourself at Westminster the Our Reign.

day of

BY THE KING HIMSELF.

in the

WITNESS

year of

(2) THE OATHS OF THE SERJEANTS AND THE KING'S SERJEANTS, AND THE MODERN DECLARATION MADE BY THE KING'S COUNSEL.

The Serjeant's Oath.

1. That he shall well and truly serve the King's people, as one of the Serjeants of the Law.

2. That he shall truly counsel them, that he shall be retained with, after his cunning.

3. That he shall not defer, tract, or delay their causes willingly, for covetousness of money, or other thing that may tend to his profit.

4. That he shall give due attendance accordingly.

The Oath of the King's Serjeant.

Coke, Second Instit. 214.

1. That he shall well and truly serve the King and his people, as one of the King's Serjeants at law.

2. That he shall truly counsel the King in his matters when he shall be called.

3. And duely and truly minister the King's matters after the course of the Law, to his cunning.

4. He shall take no wages or fee of any man for any matters, where the King is party, against the King.

5. He shall as duly, as hastily speed such matters, as any man shall have to do against the King in the Law, as he may lawfully do without delay, or tarrying the party of his lawful Proces in that belongeth to him.

6. He shall be attendant to the King's matters when he shall be called thereto.

Coke, Second Instit. 214.

The Modern Declaration made by a King's Counsel.

I

do declare that well and truly I will serve the King as one of His Counsel learned in the Law and truly counsel the King in His matters, when I shall be called, and duly and truly minister the King's matters and sue the King's process after the course of the Law, and after my cunning. For any matter against the King where the King is party I will take no wages or fee of any man. I will duly in convenient time speed such matters as any person shall have to do in the Law against the King as I may lawfully do, without long delay, tracting or tarrying the Party of his lawful process in that that to me belongeth. I will be attendant to the King's matters when I be called thereto.

IV

SHORT TITLES OF LAW BOOKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1668 AND 1700.

(Arber's edition of the Term Catalogues.)

[The various series of law reports, special reports of trials, abridgments of the reports, editions and abridgments of the statutes, are not included in this list. For some of them see vol. iv. 308-313; vol. v. 355-378; vol. vi. 312-313, 551-574.]

(1) PRACTICE AND PLEADING.

Name of Book and Author.

Date of
Publication.

Reference in Reference
the Term
Catalogues.

in this History.

i. A Collection of Entries of Declarations,
Barres, Replications, etc. By William
Rastell, Esq.
ii. The Practical Register, or the Accomplished
Attorney: consisting of Rules, Orders, and
the most principal Observations concerning
the Practice of the Common Law in the
Courts at Westminster. By William Style,
Esq. The Second Edition, enlarged.
iii. A Collection of such of the Orders hereto-
fore used in Chancery, with such alterations
and additions thereunto as the Lord Chan-
cellor, by and with the advice of the honour-
able Sir Harbottle Grimston, Master of the
Rolls, has thought fit at present to Ordain
and Publish.

Easter, 1670;
Midsummer,
1670
Midsummer,
1670;
Mich., 1693

Midsummer,
1670

iv. The Practical Counsellor in the Law; Mich., 1670
touching Fines, Common Recoveries, Judg-
ments, etc. By Will. Sheppard.

v. The Compleat Clerk; containing the best
form of all sorts of Presidents for Convey-
ances, and Assurances, and other Instru-
ments with forms of Bills, Pleadings, and
Answers in Chancery. The Third Edition,
enlarged.

Easter, 1671;
Trin., 1677;
Easter, 1683

vi. A Book of Entries, containing Presidents Easter, 1671
of Accounts, Declarations, etc. By Sir
Edward Coke.

vii. Formulæ bene placitandi. A Book of
Entries; containing a variety of choice
precedents of Counts, Declarations, Informa-
tions, etc. Collected from the MSS., as
well of some late learned Prothonotaries of
the Courts of Common Pleas, as of divers
other Practicers in the Court of King's
Bench. By W. B., a Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas.

viii. The Second Part of the foregoing work.

Mich., 1671;
Easter, 1675

Mich., 1673;

i 155

Easter, 1675

i 207

ix. The Compleat Solicitor. The Fourth Edition.

Mich., 1671

i 93

Vol. vi

437, 598

x. The practice of the High Court of Chancery. Easter, 1672
With the nature of the several offices be-
longing to that Court: and the Reports of
many Cases wherein relief hath been there
had; and when denied.

Thomas Cory, Esq., late chief Prothonotary thereof: continued by W. B.

and approved Precedents of Counts, Declara

xiv. Placita Latine Rediva. Containing perfect Mich., 1673

tions, etc. Collected out of the MSS. of R. Brownlow, J. Gulston, Rob. Moyle, and Tho. Cory, Esquires.

xv. Praxis Utriusque Banci. The Ancient and Modern Practice of the two Superior Courts at Westminster.

Hil., 1674

i 165

xvi. Liber Placitandi. A Book of Special Pleadings.

xvii. Placita Generalia et Specialia, in an exact
collection of the most usual and necessary
presidents of Declarations, etc.

xviii. A Second Book of Judgments.
George Townsend, Esq., second Protho-
Notary of the Court of Common Pleas.
xix. The practick part of the Law; showing
the Office of an Attorney and a Guide for
Sollicitors.

xx. The Office of the Clerk of Assize: together
with the Office of the Clerk of the Peace.
xxi. The New Natura Brevium, of the most
Reverend Judge, Mr. Anthony Fitzherbert,
corrected and revised.

xxv. The Common Law epitomized; with Mich., 1678
directions how to prosecute and defend
personal Actions. To which is annexed the
nature of a Writ of Error and the proceed-
ings thereupon. By William Glisson and
Anthony Gulston, Esquires.

By Mich., 1674

i 190

Trin., 1677
Mich., 1677;
Easter, 1682

i 282

Vol. vi 598 Vol. v 386-387 Vol. vi

Hil., 1678

(1) PRACTICE AND PLEADING-continued.

Name of Book and Author.

xxvi. Officina Brevium. Select and approved Forms of Judicial Writs, and other Process. xxvii. Le Beau Pledeur. A Book of Entries containing Declarations, etc. By the Reverend Sir Humphrey Winch, sometime of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.

xxviii. The exact Pleader.

xxix. The Touchstone of Precedents relating to Judicial Proceedings at Common Law. By G. F. of Gray's Inn.

xxx. Tryals per Pais, or the Law of England concerning Juries by Nisi Prius, etc. Second Edition newly revised. By G. D. of the Inner Temple.

xxxi. The Rules and Orders of the Court of Easter, 1683 Common Pleas, made since his Majesties

Restauration.

xxxii. The exact Pleader. By Andrew Vidien, Mich., 1683
late one of the Clerks of the Papers in the
Court of King's Bench.
xxxiii. The Compleat Sollicitor, Entering Clerk,
and Attorney.

Mich., 1683;

ii 46

Mich., 1699
Hil., 1684

iii 164

ii 61

xxxiv. Declarations and Pleadings in the Court of King's Bench from the 12th to the 24th year of the reign of Charles II., collected from the MSS. of J. Read, late of the Middle Temple. To which is added precedents of the same court to this present time by R. A.

xxxv. The Clerk's Assistant; being a Collection of True and Perfect Forms of Declarations,

etc.

Easter, 1684

xxxvi. A Book of special Entries of Declara-
tions, etc. Collected by the particular
Direction of Sir Thomas Robinson, Baronet,
late chief Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas, from the MSS, of his Office.
xxxvii. Jus Filizarii, or the Filacer's Office in Easter, 1684
the Court of King's Bench. By John Trye
of Gray's Inn.

xxxviii. A Book of Entries, of Declarations,

Mich. 1685