Legal commonplace book, [1708]

Manuscript legal commonplace book compiled c 1708 as an index to cases, with headings arranged alphabetically. Probably compiled by Henry Jacomb of the Inner Temple, whose name is inscribed on the first leaf.

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Single item.

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Given to the University of London Library by New College, Hampstead in 1960.

Collection level description.

15½" x 10". Parchment binding, 'repaired by Mr Partridge of Aylesbury, 1861'.

Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

The papers of the Lee family are in the Buckinghamshire Record Office.

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The manuscript contains four bookplates, including those of Sir William Lee, Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1688-1754), William Lee Antonie (1764-1815), and Francis Henry Jeune, Baron St Helier (1843-1905). There is also a 19th century bookplate of the Lee family of Hartwell, Buckinghamshire. A note on the inner front cover by John Lee (d 1866), states that 'These manuscripts after the decease of Chief Justice [William] Lee were sent with many of his books & papers from his house in Bloomsbury Square to Totteridge Park, Hertfordshire, and afterwards from thence to Hartwell House after the decease of his grand-daughter - Mrs. Arrowsmith [Louisa Lee, later wife of Edward Arrowsmith]'.

University of London MS 538 is another legal commonplace book with a similar provenance.