, one of our early law-writers, was born of a genteel family, and
, one of our early law-writers, was
born of a genteel family, and educated at Oxford, but
left it without a degree, and became a student of the Inner
Temple, where, Wood says, he made wonderful proficiency
in the common law. After being called to the bar, he
became eminent in his profession, and had great practice
as a chamber-counsel. Whether he was ever a reader of
his inn, or a bencher, seems doubtful, tie died, according to Pits, in 1544, but according to Bale, in 1545, and
is supposed to have been buried in the Temple church.
He wrote, in Norman French (but Wood gives the title in Latin), “Perutilis Tractatus; sive explanatio quorundam
capitulorum valde necessaria,
” Lond.