Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Manuscript sources
- Table of cases
- Introduction
- PART I THE LEGAL PROFESSION
- PART II LEGAL PRACTICE
- PART III THE LAWYERS AND THE LAW
- PART IV THE PROFESSION AND SOCIETY
- Appendices
- A The will of Thomas Kebell
- B The inventory of Thomas Kebell
- C List of pleaders c. 1518
- D Serjeants-at-law created 1463 to 1510
- E Senior members of the legal profession, 1461–1510
- Index
C - List of pleaders c. 1518
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Manuscript sources
- Table of cases
- Introduction
- PART I THE LEGAL PROFESSION
- PART II LEGAL PRACTICE
- PART III THE LAWYERS AND THE LAW
- PART IV THE PROFESSION AND SOCIETY
- Appendices
- A The will of Thomas Kebell
- B The inventory of Thomas Kebell
- C List of pleaders c. 1518
- D Serjeants-at-law created 1463 to 1510
- E Senior members of the legal profession, 1461–1510
- Index
Summary
CHANCERY WARRANTS 10 HENRY VIII (MONTHS UNCERTAIN): C82/474/36
This list, now in a class to which it clearly does not belong, is written in a single column on a narrow piece of paper which once (as marks of sewing show) formed part of a book. There is no indication of provenance but since it is signed by Wolsey and Skewys, a member of his staff, the list was clearly prepared for the cardinal.
The document cannot be precisely dated. John Erneley surrendered as A.G. on 26 Jan. 1519, early in Hilary term. It is probable, therefore, that the document is not later than Michaelmas term 1518. The terminus a quo is, prima facie, the creation of Wolsey as cardinal in the autumn and, probably, his appointment as chancellor, 24 Dec. 1515. Since all those named are known to have been alive in Hilary 1519 and obvious names are missing, e.g. William Ayloffe of Lincoln's Inn (d. Jul./Sept. 1517) and Sir Robert Sheffield (in the Tower from Feb., died autumn 1518), the P.R.O. dating seems probable.
The purpose of the list has yet to be established, so too the significance of the crosses and marginal comment on Richard Covert (in a different hand). One possible association is with Wolsey's order to the judges and Serjeants on 14 Oct. 1518 to report obstructors of justice; the chancellor might well have exacted an oath of good behaviour from the profession below the coif (whose members were already sworn): Guy, Cardinal's Court, 30–3, 76–8; Hastings, Common Pleas, 60, 73 n. 80.
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- The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation EnglandThomas Kebell: A Case Study, pp. 448 - 450Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983