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Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Exchequer From 1604 To 1648, William Hamilton Bryson
Reports Of Cases In The Court Of Exchequer From 1604 To 1648, William Hamilton Bryson
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Before the year 2000, there were in print only two modest collections of reports of cases in the Court of Exchequer dating before the accession of King George I in 1714. These are the reports of Sir Richard Lane (d. 1650) and those of Thomas Hardres (d. 1681). Combined, they cover only 28 years, and the number of cases is quite minuscule compared to the other high courts of justice at Westminster. This extreme paucity of printed materials has given a false impression of unimportance of the Court of Exchequer. While it is certainly true that this court did not …