CALTHROPE, Charles.

by Charles Calthrope

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Important legal work by the English Crown official and judge Sir Charles Calthrope, or Calthorpe (c. 1540-1616). Calthrope entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1560 and was called to the bar in 1569. He was an MP for Eye in 1572, and was later appointed Attorney General for Ireland as an ally of Sir John Perrot, the Lord Deputy. Calthrope’s position as Attorney General was met with considerable criticism and resistance due to his alleged partisanship, inefficiency, minimal legal knowledge and a lack of deference to his Irish contemporaries. Despite this, Crawford has suggested that he may not have been as terrible as he is portrayed in contemporary accounts; their criticism may have been because of his English identity and opposing political beliefs to the Irish members of the court (Crawford, Jon. A Star Chamber Court for Ireland – the Court of Castle Chamber 1571-1641, 2006). Indeed, on the title page of the present volume Calthrope is proclaimed as “the late Excellent and Famous lawyer Char. Calthrope of the Honorable Society of Lincolnes-Inne Esq.”, though this assertion may have some bias. This work discusses various issues relating to land tenure, including the reasons a ‘coppy-holder’ may forfeit his estate, and which Lord can grant a coppy, and to whom. A ‘coppy-holder’ refers to the tenant of the bestowed estate. The text is based on his reading at Furnivall’s Inn in 1574. The book is based on a series of grounds: the first, that there must be a manor for the maintenance of copy

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