DESCRIPTION OF The Close Rolls IN THE TOWER OF LONDON; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY, AND VARIOUS Historical Illustrations. BY THOMAS DUFFUS HARDY, F. S. A. OF THE INNER TEMPLE. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. MDCCCXXXIII. d LONDON: Printed by GEORGE EYRE and ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. ΤΟ CHARLES PURTON COOPER, Esq., A.M., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., M.R.I.A., BARRISTER AT LAW, AND SECRETARY TO THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE KINGDOM. SIR, IT is not singular that I should dedicate these pages to an individual whose energies have been so eminently displayed in promoting the objects of that Commission by whose authority and under whose auspices the CLOSE ROLLS have been published. In so doing, I might have satisfied myself simply by inscribing it as a mark of my gratitude and respect. Other considerations, however, impel me to say a few words. SENSIBLE as I am that the Publication is to be attributed mainly to your exertions, I am unwilling that this impression of the Introductory Observations and Historical Illus |