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BY EDWARD CHRISTIAN, Esq.

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE ISLE OF ELY,

DOWNING PROFESSOR OF LAW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,
AND PROFESSOR OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN THE
EAST-INDIA COLLEGE AT HERTFORD.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, BY R. WATTS.

1807.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

I HAVE read Lectures upon the Laws of England, twenty years in the University of Cambridge; but having long ceased to be a Fellow of St. John's College, in consequence of pursuing the profession of the law, I have not been permitted, by the regulations of the College, to retain any permanent chambers, and therefore have had no convenience to keep a library of my own there, even if I could have borne the expence of it: but till six or eight years ago I was supplied from the University Library with every book, which I had occasion to refer to or consult. Up to that time, the University Library was furnished from the Stationers' Hall with all the valuable modern publications upon law, as soon as they issued from the press; but for the last six years, or more, the University has not received Mr. East's Reports of the Court of King's Bench, Mr. Vesey's Decisions of the Court of Chancery, the Reports of the Common Pleas by Messrs. Bosanquet and Puller, or any other legal publication of respectability.

This inconvenience was experienced by me to such a degree, that I was lately induced to inquire at Stationers' Hall what could be the cause of this deficiency. I was assured by the warehouse-keeper, that all the books sent thither were regularly transmitted to the University.

I then wrote to the Rev. Mr. Davies, one of the University Librarians, and afterwards had an interview with him upon A 2

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