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NOTORIETY N. Year Books Ld Hardwicke's Notes

The Late Ld Chancellor Hardwicke has left behind
him an uninterrupted series of his notes
taken during the 25 years that he filled the
presided in that court filled the Chancery Bench: taken most copiously
and written in a plain & beautiful
character: fit for the press and almost without
erasures although the original copies untranscribed. —
Only those of the year 1742 were
lost in the Fire that happen'd in the
Chambers of the late Ld Chancellor Yorke his
Son.

These together with the notes taken by the first named
person of that Illustrious House before his elevation
& those as well as of the an other, with the such of his Briefs as he thought proper to retain on account of the importance of their subject are carefully preserved have been disposed in
proper order & Scheduled; & are carefully
preserved by the present Ld Hardwicke in
13 large Boxes

That noble person is said to have some thoughts of his own
accord of presenting to the public this invaluable
collection. — Sr Mr Vernon

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who had them 5 or 6 Months in his custody at George's Coffee house Sunday evening Novr 8th
1772 present Mr Meares & Mr Lang.
Is it every moment to be regretted in which
men go on groping out their way by half-lights,
instead of being illuminated by that
full lustre which the memorials of that consummate
Lawyer, the best account of
the best decisions which that Court at least
as yet, had known, would cast upon the
Law?

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