1687 Rare English Law Book Godolphin

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L O N D O N,Printed by the Affigns of R. and E. Atkins, Efquires Chriftopher Wilkinfon, at the Black-Boy againft St. Dunftan's Church in Fleetftreet. 1687. Contemporary full panelled calf, rubbed and split at base but in good sound condition, light scattered spotting to margins, overall very good.A quarto volume, it measures approximately 23cm (9") x 18cm (7") x 5cm (2"). Pagination pp. [4], 88, [2], 653, [34, index], [20, appendix], collated and complete with the imprimatur leaf.

JOHN GODOLPHIN (1617-1678), English legal writer, born at Scilly, 29 Nov. 1617. He became a commoner of Gloucester Hall (afterwards Worcester College), Oxford, in 1632; distinguished himself in the study of philosophy, logic, and the civil law; graduated as B.C.L. in 1636 and D.C.L. in 1643. He took the puritan side, and on 30 July 1653 was appointed judge of the admiralty, with William Clarke and Charles George Cock. After Clarke's death Godolphin and Cock were reappointed in July 1659 to hold the same office until 10 Dec. following. Upon the Restoration he became one of the king's advocates. Godolphin's Repertorium Canonicum, or an Abridgement of the Ecclesiastical Laws, first published 1678, was "the first substantial attempt to merge the canonical authorities with those of the common law, and thereby provide a comprehensive survey of English church law. [it] also contained obsequious remarks about the king that hint at Godolphin's continued embarrassment over his political associations during the interregnum"