The Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated, With Remarks on a Late Book.

1727. London, 1727.. London, 1727. The Rank of Judges in the Court of Chancery [Burroughs, Samuel (d.1761)]. The Legal Judicature in Chancery Stated. With Remarks on a Late Book, Intitled, A Discourse of the Judicial Authority Belonging to the Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery. London: Printed for J. Walthoe, Over-Against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1727. 282, [4] pp. Main text followed by 4 pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"). Contemporary calf with recent rebacking, gilt frames to boards, blind tooling to board edges, raised bands, lettering piece, blind fillets and gilt publication date to spine, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards, corners bumped. Light toning to interior, light browning to publisher catalogue, light foxing in places, illegible marking to front endleaf, which is lacking its upper outside corner. $500. * Only edition. This book is a response to a point in A Discourse of the Judicial Authority Belonging to the Office of Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery (1727) by Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke. Burroughs believes Yorke is incorrect when he stated that the Chancery court was directed by two judges that are not "co-ordinate, but in a subordination of one to the other" (3). Ultimately, Burroughs's view triumphed and the Master of the Rolls gained statutory independence. English Short-Title Catalogue T95693.