A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Booth, James

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 28 November, 1722.

Son and heir of James Booth, of Theobalds, Hertfordshire. He was born at St. Germain-en-Laye, in France, where his father, a Roman Catholic Jacobite, then resided. As a Roman Catholic himself he was debarred from practising at the Bar, and therefore took a licence for Conveyancing, in which art he became the leading practitioner of the day. He left no treatise on the subject, but his conveyances were often copied and used as precedents. He died 14 Jan. 1778.