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LYN into a thick volume ?" In a Case before Buller, J., he remarked, " the two Cases cited from Lutwyche are very material ; for Precedents, which have prevailed for a century past, are strong to show what the Common Law is," &c. " Nelson," says Mr. Warren, " is a truly whimsical and pplenetic, but learned annotator." Nelson's Pref. 2 T. R. 630 ; 8 Bing. 531 ; 18 Viner's Abr. Pref.; Warren's L. S. 717, n. LUTWYCHE, THOMAS. Reports. See 9 Modern. LYE, E. Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum accedunt fragmenta versionis Ulphilanse, necnon opusciila quaedam Anglo- Saxonica, a 0. Manning. 2 torn. fol. London. 1773. LYNCH, W. The Law of Election in the Ancient Cities and Towns of Ireland, traced from Original Records ; with facsimile ■Engravings, and an Appendix of Documents. 8vo. Dublin. 1821. . A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Here- ditary Offices, and Feudal Baronies established in Ireland, during the Reign of Henry II., deduced from Court Rolls, Inquisitions, and other original Records. 8vo. Dublin. 1830. .. — — . Illustrations of the Law and Usage of the Pre- scriptive Baronies of Ireland, as distinguished from the Law of Baronies by Writ, peculiar to England, deduced from unpublished Decisions, and other Sources of original Evidence, fol. Dublin. 1835. LYNDEWOOD, GUILIELMUS. Provinciale, sive Conslitu- tiones Angliae, cum summariis atque annotalionibus. fol. Oxford. 1679. This work consists of a Digest of the English Ecclesiastical Law, from the time of Stephen Langton, to Archbishop Chichele. To the Synodical Constitutions are appended a copious and minute glossary, replete with every illustration that could be drawn from the writings of foreign Canonists. The author adopted, in the treatment of his subject, the method of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX., and the Provinciale is a most remarkable and labourious production for the age in which it •was written. This and the Legantine Constitutions of Otho and Otho- bon, with John de Athona's Commentary upon them " have obtained great authority with posterity. They are regarded, both in the spiritual and temporal Courts, as containing undeniable evidence of the practice and law of their respective periods ; and as they were instrumental in fixing both in after limes, their works are considered as the depositories 482