Excerpt from The Law Magazine and Law Review, or Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 5: May to August, 1858 Sir W. H. Maule was born on the 25th of April, 1788, at Degreesedmonton, in Middlesex, where his father was a medical practi tioner of good standing and consideration. His mother was a Rawson, of a family which we believe still flourishes in Leeds and its neighbourhood. The late Mr. Miller, member in several successive Parliaments for Newcastle-und er-lyme, and well known in his day to the collectors of bibliographical curiosities, as one of the keenest and most learned of their fraternity, was his first cousin by the mother's side. His paternal grandfather had been rector of Castle Ashby, near Northampton. A tradition, whether historical or mythical it may be difficult to decide, makes these English Maules an offshoot from the great Scottish family of Maule of Panmure. His earliest education was such as could be got in the neighbourhood. At the age of eleven, having then some rudiments of Latin, but no Greek, or, as he himself phrased it, knowing his hie, km, hoe, but not his 6, a, 76. 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.