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The boke of Magna Carta, with diuers other statutes, whose names appere in the nexte lefe folowynge, translated into Englyshe. London: Robert Redman, 1534.
Beale S10; STC 9272   

The edition represents the first time the Charter appeared in English rather than Latin. It was translated by George Ferrers (c. 1510-1579), a servant of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, and later member of Parliament.

The printer is Robert Redman (d. 1540). In competition with Richard Pynson, Redman adopted a printer's device strikingly similar to Pynson's, and printed works that Pynson typically printed.(1) The two printers feuded, with a derisive Pynson calling Redman "Rudeman." Redman took over Pynson's business and printing type after the latter's death.(2)

One of the owners of the volume, Henry Roscoe (1800-1836), was an English lawyer, legal writer, and biographer, who wrote several treatises on evidence.(3) Another former owner, Hubert Hutchings, is found listed in Joseph Foster's Men at the Bar. Hutchings, a student of the Middle Temple in February 1835, was called to the bar May 4, 1838.(4)

The Law Library acquired this volume in 1936.

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Title Page Flyleaf Table of statutes Colophon Printer's Device

1. Device 41 in Ronald McKerrow's Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640, (London: Chiswick Press, 1913), 15.
2. Colin Clair, A History of Printing in Britain (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), 37.
3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online
4. Joseph Foster, Men-at-the-Bar: a biographical hand-list of the members of the various Inns of Court, including Her Majesty's judges, etc. (London: Reeves and Turner, 1885), 233.