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Commonplace book. English law: manuscript

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Description: Extracts from Year Books, abridgements of cases and decisions, law reports, precedents and formularies, notes on the Assize of Forests and other legal matters. Owned by and [partly in the hand of?] Sir John Port.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [approximately 1480-approximately 1540]
Call number: mssHM 46980
Provenance: In library, 1980.
Dimensions: 31 cm :
Associated people: Port, John, (approximately 1472-1540.)
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