Ferdinando Pulton

alias P [•] ulton. (Son of Giles Pulton Esq who died 1560.) was born at Deusborough in Northampton-shire, became (*)(*) Reg. 1. coll. Ænean. fol. 92. [•] commoner of Brasnose coll. in the beginning of Q. Marys Reign, laid there a foundation of Academical literature, which he found useful to him afterwards when he grew eminent in the common Law. But leaving that house before he took a degree, he went to Lincolns Inn, studied the said Law, took the usual degrees, and became eminent for the knowledge in, and practice of, it, not only in London, but the usual place of his residence in the country, viz. at Borton in the Parish and County of Buckingham. He hath written and published,

An abstract of all the Penal Statutes which be general, Lond. 1600. qu. Digested alphabetically according to the several subjects they concern.

Abridgment of the Statutes of England, that have been made and printed from Magna charta to the end of the Session of Parliament, 4. Jac. 1. Lond. 1606. and 12. &c. fol.

Collection of Statutes repealed and not repealed. Lond. 1608. fol.

De pace regis & regni, declaring which be the general offences and impediments of Peace. Lond. 1610. and 15. fol.

Collection of sundery Statutes frequent in use: with notes in the Margent, and reference to the book, Cases and books of Entry and Registers, where they be treated of. Lond. 1618. in two vol. in fol. the [•] e again 1632. fol. &c. which collection rea [•] hes from 9. [〈◊〉] . 3. to 7. [••] c. 1.

The Statutes at large, concerning all such Acts which at any time heretofore have [〈◊〉] extant in [〈…〉] Char [•] a, to the 16. of Ja [•] . 1. &c. divided [〈…〉] with marginal Notes, &c. Lond. 1618. &c. fol. He departed this Life,1617-18. on the 20. January in sixteen hundred and seventeen, aged 82. and was buried in the Chancel of the Church of Deusborough, before-mention’d. Over his grave was a large plain Stone soon after laid, with an Epitaph engraven thereon, wherein ’tis said that he was Vir omni virtutis & doctrinarum genere, (&) quondam illustrissimus necnon sedulus scriptor & propagator legum hujus regni. But if you are minded to read his English Epitaph, see in Sir Joh. Beaumont’s Tast of the variety of Poems, at the end of his Bosworth-field. Lond. 1629. oct. The said Ferdinando Pulton left behind him several Sons, whereof two were R. Cath. Priests.