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Brief animadversions on, amendments of, & additional explanatory records to, the fourth part of the institutes of the lawes of England; : concerning the jurisdiction of courts, compiled by the late famous lawyer Sir Edward Cooke Knight, (Chief Justice of both Benches) in his life-time, but published and re-printed (with some disadvantage) since his death. Wherein the misquotations, mistakes of records, antiquities cited in them, are rectified, some doubtful passages explained; many defective omissions of usefull records supplyed, especially such as relate to the proceedings, priviledges, members of the High Court of Parliament, the courts of the High Steward, Constable, Marshal, Admiral, with other civil, ecclesiastical courts; ... the transcripts of which records out of the originals, are at large inserted, many others chronologically and briefly quoted; with several tables thereunto: for the publike benefit, ... By William Prynne Esquire