Excerpt from Observations Upon the Statutes: Chiefly the More Ancient, From the Magna Charta to the Twenty-First of James the First, Ch, XXVII, With an Appendix, Being a Proposal for New Modelling the Statutes As fome few of the Obfervations are verbal, it may not be im proper to inform the reader, that the edition of the Statutes, which I have generally made ufe of, is that of Mr. Gay. I do not by this pretend to enter into the comparative merit of this and the later editions; but am perfuaded, from the great learning and accuracy of the editor, that it will not eafily be rendered more perfefl, except by the addition of the Statutes of the prefent reign. I have likewife very frequent occafion to fupport what I have advanced, by cita tions from Rymer's Feedera; it may not be improper, therefore, to obferve that the edition Ihave made ufe of, is that printed at the Hague in 1745. As for other authorities, when they are taken from books which are not eafily to be procured, I have generally mentioned the place, and time, when fuch work was printed, in a note fubjoined to fuch authority: having omitted this in fome few inflances, I had thought of prefixing a lift of the authors cited (which hath not been uncommonly practifed): Ihave, however. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.