CHRISTOPHER ST. GERMAN ON CHANCERY AND STATUTEGuy, Dr. J.A.Item #: 68177 Series: SELDEN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES The volume is a companion to J.L. Barton's edition of St.German's Doctor and Student, published by the Society in1974. It contains the "Replication" to Doctor and Student byan anonymous "serjeant-at-law", together with acontroversial reply, "A Little Treatise concerning Writs ofSubpeona", now known to be by St. German himself. Theedition includes proposals for parliamentary legislationarising from St. German's Little Treatise Called the NewAdditions, proposals laid before Henry VIII's government in1530 and 1531, together with new information both on thisimportant author's manuscript writings and his role as anadviser and polemicist in the 1530s.
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