Notebook of a barrister riding on the Midland Circuit [manuscript], ca. 1609 February-1610/11 February.

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Jeffreys, John, ca. 1564-1622. Notebook of a barrister riding on the Midland Circuit [manuscript], ca. 1609 February-1610/11 February.

Notebook of a barrister riding on the Midland Circuit [manuscript], ca. 1609 February-1610/11 February.

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Apparently this volume belonged to the Jeffreys family of Acton, Denbighshire, ca. 1650-ca. 1660. The six Christian names on leaves 24 correspond to those of Judge Jeffreys and his five brothers, some of whom scribbled in the blank spaces, e.g. a note of personal expenses (leaf 62v), a couplet (leaf 39v), 2 alphabets, and an incomplete line of verse (leaf 68v). Their maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Ireland of Bewsay, Lancashire (d. 1625), was a Reader of Gray's Inn. Their paternal grandfather, John Jeffreys of Acton Park (d. 1622), was a judge of the Anglesey Circuit. Towns visited: Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Warwick, Bridgnorth in Shropshire, Northampton and Lincoln. Rough notes of cases numbered sequentially by a clerk of the Assizes. The amount of detail varies. John Shakespeare appears as a defendant on leaves 56 and 160v. Includes annotations made by Jeffreys family.

164 leaves.

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