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A small collection of legal notes by Hugh Hughes and Chancellor Wynne.

Copies by Dr Wynne and a scribe of cases and precedents in ecclesiastical law; an index of statutes concerning ecclesiastical matters; an account of some material differences between the Civil Law and the Law of England, extracted from Dr Strahan's translation of Monsieur Domat's Civil Law; etc.

Extracts made by Chancellor Wynne and a scribe, 1734-1735, out of books on law, including Thomas Wood, A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law (London, 1704) (pp. 1-102), John Ayliffe, A New Pandect of Roman Civil Law (London, 1734) (pp. 115-206) and Sir Henry Finch, Law; or, A Discourse Thereof (London, 1627); together with a copy of a letter in Latin, dated 8 November 1691, concerning mortuaries from William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph, to Humphrey Humphreys, Bishop of Bangor (pp. 257-266).

Notes in Latin, by Chancellor Wynne, on the authority of human testimony, customary or unwritten law, and other legal questions.

Notes by [?Dr Robert Morgan] and a scribe, comprising precedents, extracts from authorities and notes on prohibitions to ecclesiastical courts; notes on fines and recoveries; an analysis of the Ecclesiastical Law; a short history of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law in England; a brief explication of conveyancing; some desiderata in our laws; etc.
For a list of contents see ff. i verso-ii.

A collection of legal instruments compiled towards the end of the seventeenth century (ff. 1-108 verso), together with 'some collections of the course of Proceedings in Inglish [sic] suites in Chancery' (ff. 109 verso-153 verso, inverted text).

A collection of legal instruments, now incomplete (pp. 1-6, 11-110, 113-116, 119-122, 135-136, 141-148, 153-188, 197-224, 227-252, 257-264). New folios have been inserted in some of the lacunae by Chancellor Wynne (pp. 111-112, 117-118, 123-134, 137-140, 149-152, 253-256), some of which have notes in his hand (pp. 117-118, 123-126, 128-134, 137-140, 150, 152).
An index of the contents is on ff. i verso-iii verso.