File Wynnstay MS 39 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Legal tracts, etc.

Copies of legal tracts including a 16th century copy of a treatise, in French, on Forest laws. The treatise, which was composed after 1390, takes the form of an exposition of the Charter of the Forest of November 1217, and the opening words of each section of that statute are quoted in the text. (See also MS 50). This is followed by thirty questions, with answers, on ecclesiastical law, mainly concerning plurality and residence in benefices; 'Mayster Lambertes treatyse of the high courtes of Justice in England & especiallye of the Chauncerie & of the lord Chauncellor yt judgeth there, 1584' (Mayster Lamberte is probably William Lambarde, 1536-1601, the historian of Kent); 'The recognition of the high and sacred authority of the supremacy investid in our most gracious soueraigne ladie Elizabeth ... delivered in the open sessions holden at xc wth the ordinary charge the 2 of Octobr 1593' (This charge also may the work of William Lambarde); 'A breef note of the chardge of Sr Jon. Brydgeman, made at Ludlow the 22 of Januarye, 1635'; and a copy of a cywydd marwnad by Sion Kein (probably in his autograph) to Roger Kynaston, 1641.