Arguments and judgment in the case of Godwin v. Sir Edw. Hales, in the King's Bench, Trinity term, 2 Jac. II., 17th century

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MS. Rawl. C. 716

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The plaintiff sought to recover a forfeiture of £500 on the ground that the defendant had not qualified himself as lieutenant in a foot-regiment by taking the oaths, but judgment was given for the defendant by eleven judges to one on the ground that the king can of himself dispense with any penal laws.

Dates

Creation: 17th century

Extent

7 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. C. 716

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens (Oxford, 1862), no. C. 716.

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 12560.

Physical Facet

On paper, in folio

Related Names

Creator

From the Collection: Rawlinson | Richard | 1690-1755 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Pepys | Samuel | 1633-1703 | MP, Diarist, Public Servant, Antiquary (Person)
From the Collection: Thurloe | John | 1616-1668 | Secretary to the Council of State (Person)
From the Collection: Wilkinson | Thomas | fl 1600-1699 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
From the Collection: Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral (Person)
From the Collection: Gunning | Peter | 1614-1684 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
From the Collection: Lewis | John | c 1700-1799 | Minister of Margate (Person)
From the Collection: Robinson | John | 1650-1723 | Bishop of London (Person)
From the Collection: Fitzwilliams | John | fl 1600-1699 | Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Grenville | Denis | 1637-1703 | Jacobite Archbishop of York | also known as Denis Granville (Person)
From the Collection: Locke | John | 1632-1704 | philospher (Person)
From the Collection: Mandeville | Sir | John | d 1372 | travel writer (Person)
From the Collection: Nedam | James | fl 1532-1543 | Royal Surveyor of Works (Person)
From the Collection: Roach | Richard | 1662-1730 | Anglican clergyman (Person)
From the Collection: Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist (Person)
From the Collection: Fleming | Robert | ? 1660-1716 | Presbyterian Minister (Person)
From the Collection: Hawes | Samuel | fl 1694-1700 | Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Price | Daniel | fl 1685-1706 | Dean of St Asaph (Person)
From the Collection: Stanton | William | fl 1697-1704 (Person)
From the Collection: Swadlin | Thomas | 1600-1670 | Royalist divine (Person)
From the Collection: Turner | Francis | ? 1638-1700 | Bishop of Ely (Person)
From the Collection: Turner | Thomas | 1645-1714 | President of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Person)
From the Collection: Samber | Robert | fl 1710-1729 | Poet (Person)
From the Collection: Williams | John | fl 1709-1726 | Poet (Person)
From the Collection: Hearne | Thomas | 1678-1735 | Antiquary and Nonjuror (Person)
From the Collection: Wharton | Philip | 1613-1696 | 4th Baron Wharton (Person)
From the Collection: Zamboni | Giovanni Giacomo | fl 1723-1751 | resident in England for Duke of Modena (Person)
From the Collection: Sancroft | William | 1617-1693 | Archbishop of Canterbury (Person)
From the Collection: Neve | John Le | 1679-1741 | Antiquary (Person)
From the Collection: L'Estrange | Hamon | 1605-1660 | theologian and historian (Person)
From the Collection: Gronovius | Jacobus | 1645-1716 | classical scholar (Person)
From the Collection: Smith | Thomas | 1638-1710 | Nonjuror Historian and Librarian (Person)
From the Collection: Holman | William | d 1730 | Essex Antiquary Congregational Minister (Person)

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