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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reports of Cases Determined in the Court of King's Bench: Together with Some Other Cases: from Trin. 12 Geo. I. to Trin. 7 Geo. II. with Tables of the Names of the Cases and of the Principal Matters''}}
===by Thomas Barnardiston===
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}}[[wikipedia:Thomas Barnardiston (legal writer)|Thomas Barnardiston]] (1706 &ndash; 1752), admitted to the [[wikipedia:Middle Temple|Middle Temple]] in 1724, became a member of the bar in 1730 and was created [[wikipedia:Sergeant at law|sergeant-at-law]] in 1736.<ref>N. G. Jones, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/1463 Barnardiston, Thomas (1706–1752)]" in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 7, 2013.</ref> He served as [[wikipedia:Recorder (judge)|recorder]] of the borough of Dunwich, Suffolk from 1737 to 1750.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Barnardiston compiled two different sets of reports, one from the [[wikipedia:Court of chancery|Court of Chancery]], published in 1742, and this set from the [[wikipedia:Court of King's_Bench (England)|Court of King's Bench]], published in 1744. Both sets of reports received mixed reviews. Of the King's Bench reports, [[wikipedia:Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon|Lord Kenyon]] "held a low opinion ... regarding Barnardiston as 'a bad reporter' (R. v. Stone, 1801). Yet Lord Erskine once accepted a case cited from the king's bench reports as 'a precise authority' (Nelthorpe v. Law, 1807) ..."<ref>Ibid.</ref> Regardless of the criticisms, Holdsworth notes that the character of both sets of Barnardiston's reports has been largely vindicated.<ref>William Holdsworth, ''A History of English Law'' (London: Methuen & Co., Sweet and Maxwell, 1938), 12:138.</ref>

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> includes the first edition (1744) of Barnardiston's ''Reports'' based on quotations in the manuscript copy of [[John Marshall|John Marshall's]] law notes. The Wolf Law Library purchased a copy of the same edition.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
A single volume bound in modern calf with marbled boards; spine features six bands with stamped rules and gilt lettering to the label.

Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637633901333 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01COWM_INST/1tc7lat/alma991025606669703196 William &amp; Mary's online catalog.]

===Full text===
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/BarnardistonReports1744Vol1.pdf Volume I] (41MB PDF)
*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/BarnardistonReports1744Vol2.pdf Volume II] (41MB PDF)

==See also==
*[[George Wythe Room]]
*[[Wythe's Library]]

==References==
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