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VOLUMINOUSNESS The complaints of it.
to the study of the Law printed 1620 - dated 1599</note> So long ago as the year 1599 in the reign of Elizabeth close of the 16th I find the Law spoken of it observed remarked (and that by a Panegyrist Fullbeck's Direction or Preparative for the in the way of concession) that "The Law Books are huge and large, and"
"that there is [such] an ocean of Reports" and [such] a perplexed confusion of opinions which so tho this
however it seems ought not to trouble us for the old standing reasons because that Industry would
conquer every thing, and that there were Lawyers very ready to be consulted, & so forth <note>This Ocean [however] following however were Ocean however could then Articles of which this Ocean of the following Articles]
It was however an observation of facetious Lawyer, I don't know what facetious Lawyer it was, who was observing about of the Professor towards the beginning of the Century The year Books Vol: in Folio 10 "that when he was a Student, he could
Dyer "carry a compleat Library of [Law] Books in a Wheelbarrow; but that they were so wonderfully"
Plowden "encreased in his time that they could not then be drawn in a Waggon."
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