The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
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- The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.
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- Leonard, William.
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- London :: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for Henry Twyford, Thomas Basset, William Rawlins and John Place,
- 1686.
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- Law reports, digests, etc. -- England.
- Law -- England -- Cases.
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"The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47718.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
Courteous Reader,
I Can do no less than acquaint thee, That the First and Second Part of the REPORTS of that Learned Lawyer, William Leonard, of Grays-Inn, Esquire, were obtained from me, and Printed by the over-forwardness of those persons that received it from my hand, who published it with a Design to prejudice the Learned Author and my self, by false Intimating in the Epistle to the Reader prefixed before the Second Part, That the First and Second Part, was [All] of our Learned Authors Works, [that I thought fit to publish.] That I may Extricate my self out of their intended Abuse, and undeceive thee, I do hereby assure thee, That although I do Collect the First and Second Part, yet do I wholly disown the Epistle afore∣mentioned, and also aver it to be a false and scanda∣lous Assertion. That it is so, I refer thee to the View of this Third Part, The which is in no wise Inferior to the First and Second Part: But on the contrary, I may with Modesty say, as to the Worth and Usefulness of it, That it may Challenge the Precedence of the O∣ther Two; the which I intended, as one that Feasteth his Guests, preserveth the Daintiest Dishes until the last.
My Intention ever was, (if my other occasions would give me leave) To publish such further CASES as were Collected by him, (not before Im∣printed) that might add something to the Study and Benefit of the Ingenuous Reader: Wherefore I having
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lately Collected (out of his Manuscript which only is in my hands) some other Cases (out of many) which lay scattering therein, not before made Publick, I have reduced them into this Third Part, which I com∣mend to thy Reading, and leave to thy favourable Construction. And if these Cases now Printed off in this Third Part, (as the former Cases have done) shall find good Acceptance of thee, and be useful to thee, I shall willingly (if God give me life, and it be desired,) put an End to this Work. In the prosecution of the which, I shall have due regard, as I hitherto have had in this Third Part, as well as in the Two former Parts, that thou shalt be presented with nothihg but what is Really useful, and not to be had in other Works of the like nature.
Now for as much as no Action or Thing done under Heaven, can be free from Error, in a greater or lesser proportion, The which, as well as other Arts, Printing too too frequently demonstrateth; yet the Errors of this Third Part are so few, and Incon∣siderable, that it maketh me the more Confident to desire thy favourable Corection: Therefore I leave it to thee.
From my Study in Grays-Inn, 24 of October, 1662.
William Huhges.