Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594) Including Shakespeare's Connection..
- 2002
2002. ISBN-13: 9781584770565; ISBN-10: 1584770562. Brown, Basil. Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594) Including Shakespeare's connection with the Inns of Court, the origin of the Capias Utlegatum re Coke and Bacon, Francis Bacon's connection with Warwickshire, together with a reprint of the Gesta Grayorum. New York: [Privately Printed by the Author], 1921. xciv, 188, 88, [9] pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770565; ISBN-10: 1584770562. Hardcover cloth. Fine. $49.95 * This interesting volume examines legal aspects of the lives and writings of Shakespeare and Bacon. Includes the text of the hard-to- find Gesta Grayorum, which is attributed in part to Bacon. Brown also describes the origin of the Capias Utlegatum insult offered to Bacon by Queen Elizabeth's attorney general, Sir Edward Coke.