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Bodewryd (Sotheby) manuscripts and papers Ecclesiastical law -- Early works to 1800
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Legal notes

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.

Doctors' Commons Cases, &c.

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.

Canon law, &c.

Notes on ecclesiastical law, with notes and short biographies of Latin and English writers to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Some notes by [?Dr Wynne], but mostly copied by another.

Ecclesiastical law, &c.

Notes by Dr Wynne and a scribe on the law governing testaments, guardianship, matrimony and defamation; historical account of decrees in cases of Tithes made in the Exchequer Court, 1660-1713.

Precedents in ecclesiastical law

A composite volume (previously also including Bodewryd MS 47iiD) containing:
(a) Examples of ecclesiastical instruments taken out of the records of the diocese of Bangor between 1634 and 1640 (ff. 1-93);
(b) An index to a collection of precedents in the hand of Dr Edward Wynne (ff. 95-99), followed by twenty-one pages of the projected collection (ff. 100-110);
(c) An inventory of plate and household goods at Bodewryd, 14 July 1755, and related lists, dated 1757 (ff. 111-123);
(d) A few more precedents begun by Dr Wynne and continued by a scribe (ff. 124-133 verso).

Precedents in ecclesiastical law

A collection of precedents in ecclesiastical law made towards the end of the sixteenth century; the examples are mostly dated around 1595 and several relate to the diocese of Bangor (ff. 1-143).
The collection is preceded by an index in the original hand (ff. i-ii) and followed by index by Dr Edward Wynne (ff. 144-147), both evidently compiled while the volume was complete.