A new addition to an ongoing project to publish the early-modern Exchequer manuscript law reports.
This edition of Exchequer cases from 1685 to 1714 includes all of the Exchequer reports, both in print and in manuscript, known to date from this period. These consolidated reports are presented chronologically according to the modern method of presenting cases.
This is a substantial modern edition of early-Hanoverian Exchequer case reports—materials that are crucial for understanding how the English state’s fiscal and legal machinery worked in practice during George I’s reign.
Published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2014 as a large hardcover reference work (listed at over 1,100 pages), it gathers and makes usable a body of decisions and arguments from a court whose core mission was disputes touching the Crown’s revenue and related questions of common law and equity.
Scholars value volumes like this because they turn scattered, difficult-to-access report material into a citable source for research on doctrine, procedure, government finance, and the lived realities behind eighteenth-century litigation—and the book is already being cited in academic legal-historical work.
Two volumes, still in shrinkwrap.
