Brownlow, Richard / John Goldesborough [Esquires].

Reports of Diverse Choice Cases in Law, Taken by those late and most judicious Prothonotaries of the Common Pleas. Richard Brownlow & John Goldesborough, Esquires. With Directions how to proceed in many Intricate Actions, both Real and Personal, shewing the Nature of those Actions and the Practice in them; excellently usefull [sic] for the avoiding of many Errours [sic] heretofore committed in the like Proceedings ; fit for all Lawyers, Attorneys and Practisers of the Law. Also a most Perfect and exact Table, shewing Appositely the Contents of the whole Book.

The Second Edition. London, Printed by F.L. for Matthew Walbancke at Grays-Inne, Gate and Henry Twyford in Vine Court in the Middle Temple, 1654. Quarto. [II], 241, [6] pages. Hardcover / Modern, stunning half-leather with marbled-paper-covered-boards. The Volume beautifully restored and now in protective Mylar. New endpapers. Faded dampstain. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, was a lawyer who served as Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas. He was born on 2 April 1553 and was baptised on 12 April at St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn in the City of London. He was the son of John Brownlow of High Holborn, by his wife, a daughter of Sir John Zouch of Stoughton Grange in Leicestershire. A street in Holborn bears the name Brownlow Street.
In 1583 he entered the Inner Temple and was Treasurer of that society in 1606. On 9 October 1591 he was made Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he continued to hold until his death, deriving from it an annual profit of £6,000, with which he purchased the reversion of the manor of Belton, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, with other properties.

He married Katherine Page, daughter of John Page of Wembley, Middlesex, a Master in Chancery and one of the first governors of Harrow School, and by her had three sons and three daughters, including:

Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1594–1679) of Belton, eldest son and heir, who on 26 July 1641 was created a baronet “of Belton in the County of Lincoln”. Died without children when his baronetcy became extinct.
Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1595–1666) of Humby, Lincolnshire, who on 27 July 1641, one day after his brother’s baronetcy, was also created a baronet, “of Humby in the County of Lincoln”. In 1718 his great-grandson John Brownlow, 5th Baronet (1690–1754) was created Viscount Tyrconnel, in the Peerage of Ireland, whose sister and heiress in her issue Anne Brownlow married Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet (1680-1734) and was the mother of Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet (1718-1770), Speaker of the House of Commons, whose son in 1776 was created Baron Brownlow, the ancestor of Earl Brownlow.

He died at Enfield on 21 July 1638 in his eighty-sixth year; his bowels were buried in Enfield Church, but his body was buried on 1 August in St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Belton, in which survives his monument surmounted by a figure of him in his prothonotary’s gown. The monument was created by Joshua Marshall. A portrait in similar dress is preserved at Belton House, and was engraved by Thomas Cross as frontispiece to his works. His will is dated 1 January 1637–8, and was proved 8 August 1638 by his two sons. (Wikipedia)

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John Goldesburg or Goldesborough or Gouldsborough (1568–1618), legal reporter, descended from a family living at Goldsborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, was born on 18 October 1568. He studied at Oxford in 1584, entered the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar by that society. He enjoyed a good reputation as a lawyer, and was made one of the prothonotaries of the common pleas. He died 9 October 1618, and was buried near the high altar in the Temple Church. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue One – History of Law · English History – Rare · English Law · English Legal History · Law · Law – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31864AB

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