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Hearne, Reading on the Statute Concerning Commissions of Sewers, Lent 1638, 1659
The learned reading of John Herne Esq., late of the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne, upon the statute of 23 H. 8, Cap. 3, concerning commissions
of sewers; translated out of the French manuscript: by John Herne, (5)+30p, London, pr. for Matthew Walbanke, 1659. (Lacks TOC & index. The lawyer
John Herne, fl. 1627-44, was admitted as a student at Lincoln's Inn in 1610–11, and was later called to the bar there. In 1627 he was elected to
Parliament for Newport in Cornwall, but was unseated on petition. In 1632 he defended the Puritan, Henry Sherfield, on his trial in the Star Chamber for
defacing a stained-glass window in St. Edmund's Church, Salisbury. He was also counsel for William Prynne on his trial for the publication of writings
hostile to the Established Church, and for the warden of the Fleet before a commission which sat to investigate alleged abuses in the management of that
prison. In 1637 he was elected a bencher of his inn, and was Lent reader there in the following year. In 1641 he was one of the counsel for Sir John
Bramston the elder and Sir Robert Berkeley, two of the judges impeached by the Long Parliament. He was also one of the counsel for Archbishop Laud on
his impeachment, and delivered a learned and eloquent speech in his defense on 11 Oct. 1644. The legendary gist of his argument was that, sine none of
the articles of impeachment sufficed by itself to justify a charge of high treason, their combination were no more effective. As Herne wittily put it:
“two hundred couple of black rabbits would not make a black horse.” After Herne’s death, the date of which is uncertain, the present work was
published, being translated out of the French Manuscript. Most of the above information was derived from an article by James McMullen Rigg, Dict. Nat. Biog.,
1885-1900, Vol. 26. The copy of this work used for scanning was one reprinted in exact imaging format by ProQuest, EEBO Editions.)
Title:   Lent, 1638 : the learned reading of John Herne, Esq., late of the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne, upon the statute of 23 H.8, Cap. 3, concerning commissions of sewers / translated out of the French manuscript.
OCLC Number:   65320506
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