LAMBARDE, William.
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Rare newly enlarged edition of Lambard’s “Eirenarcha”, first published in 1581, bound with its companion work on the Duties of Constables, also enlarged and updated. “Written in a clear and unaffected style this manual remained for a long time the standard authority; Judge Blackstone speaks favourably of this work, and recommends it to the perusal of students.” (DNB). The first Book of the Eirenarcha contains a “theorique (or insight) of the office of the Justices”; the second sets out the jurisdiction of and the practice and procedure before the justices of the peace, the third of the justices with the quarter sessions, the fourth of the quarter sessions alone. It is followed by a table containing (“verie neare all”) the printed statutes and a selection of precedents. A good enlarged edition of one of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries best handbooks for practitioners in the courts of common law. “William Lambard’s Eirenarcha; or Of the Office of the Justices of Peace appeared in at least 13 editions between 1581 and 1619. Although Lambard’s title does not reference Fitzherbert, the manual’s prefatory epistle does. In his dedicatory epistle, Lambard informs Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England, that when he first began writing his tract, he consulted earlier works, in particular Fitzherbert’s. Lambards manual, however, substantially amplifies Fitzherbert’s work, adding new material about the history of the office, clarifying the differing responsibilities of a
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