Chronica juridicialia : or, A general calendar of the years of our Lord God, and those of the several kings of England, from the first year of William the Conqueror, successively down to this first year of the reign of our most dread sovereign K. James II : Together with a chronological table of the names of all the lord chancellors, and lord keepers of the great seal of England, justices of the Kings-bench and Commom-pleas, barons of the Exchequer, and serjeants at law : With a table of all their names, alphabetically disposed, for the greater ease of the peruser, and the years both of our Lord and the King joyned with them : To which is added a catalogue of all those arch-bishops and bishops, who have been intrusted with the most eminent and honorary places in the civil state of this kingdom
In part, an abridgement of Dugdale's Origines juridiciales. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
"Compiled by Edward Cooke"--BM.
Signatures: A⁸, ²A-N¹, ²O⁸, ³A-D⁸, ²E⁴.
The text of gathering O (following p. 209) has a number of errors, including: on O2r the death date of Edward I is given as July 27; on O3v the last line under Canterbury is "1 Lord Lord Chief Justice"; on O4r under Chichester 1338 is listed beside John de Langton; and on O6r the summary under Norwich states "5 Lord Chancellors."
Another edition was dated in the same year in which the last two sentences preceding the imprint are reversed. The errors noted in gathering O are corrected in that edition.
In 1st group of paging, p. [1]-[2], [4], [6] and [16] are blank; in 3rd group of paging, p. [1], [5], [17], and [89] are blank.