Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant.
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Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant.
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Selden, John, 1584-1654.
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MDCLXXXIII [1683]
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Law -- England -- History and criticism.
Probate law and practice -- England.
Ecclesiastical law -- England.
Inheritance and succession -- England.
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"Tracts written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire ; the first entituled, Jani Anglorvm facies altera, rendred into English, with large notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. ; the second, England's epinomis ; the third, Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdictions of testaments ; the fourth, Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods ; the three last never before extant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59100.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2025.
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descriptionPage 117
CHAP. III.
Pag. 54. lin. 32. Boseham.] What Earl Godwin's trick was, or wherein the conceit lay, I cannot at present well imagine, unless it were in the equivocation or misunderstanding of the word Boseham, as it falls in with the word Bosom in the pronunciation and sound of it; thus. Supposing the Earl at meeting of the Arch-Bishop, coming up to him upon pretence of saluting him said, Give me your Boseham, my Lord; to which the Arch-Bishop thinking belike, he might, by way of desiring his Pastoral embrace, mean only his bosom, readily made answer, I give you my bosom; which the Earl with a cunning fetch in∣terpreted a Grant of his Estate of Boseham.
Pardon, Reader, my mistake, if it be one; since I have no better ac∣count, from my own guess, to give, meeting with no help from our Law-Dictionaries.
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