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Uitgever London : Printed by E. Flesher, J. Steater, and H. Twyford, 1674. With : Une exact table al report de Sir John Davys. London, Printed for James Collins, and Charles Harper, 1677. Contemp. calf bindig. Rebacked. [31], 99 [i.e. 198], [23] pp. Small ...

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Extra informatie - Sir John Davies (1569-1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland in 1605 and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire. Davies was very much committed to reform not just in the law but in religious affairs too. He was all for banishing Catholic clergy from Ireland and for enforcing church attendances, and strict measures to this end were taken on his return. Davies spent much time in preparing the way for the Irish Parliament of 1613. The first edition of this book was published in Dublin in 1615 with title: Le primer report des cases & matters en ley resolve & adiudge en les courts del roy en Ireland. This were Davies' reports of Irish cases, he had appeared as counsel in many of these, including the case of the Bann fishery and the cases of tanistry and gavelkind, which set precedents in Irish constitutional law, with wider implications for British colonial policy.