YEA YEAR-BOOKS. Les Reports des Cases en Temps du Henry le VI. Communement appelles, the Second Part of Henry the Sixth. Auxi voux aves in cest' Impression les Cases icy referres aux Abridgments de Brook et Fitz-herbert. fol. London. 1679. The first part of Henry VI., Lord Hale says, is barren, spending itself in much learning of little moment, and long since out of use. The second part is much esteemed. 4 Reeves' Hist. 112; Hale's Hist. C. L. 176. . Les Reports des Cases en Ley que furent argues en temps du Roy Edward le quart, avec les notations de Brook et Fitz-herbert. fol. London. 1680. The Cases of the first and second years of Edward IV"., appear to have been taken by Townsend. Herbert's Ames, 302. ■ . Long Qumio. Les Reports des Cases en Ley en le cinque An du Roy Edward le Qart. Communement appelle Long Quinlo. Novelment imprimee et corrigee, ovesque Refer- ences al Brook, fol. London. 1680. " The whole of Edward IV., particularly the Long Quinio, as it is called, are full of excellent learning." 4 Reeves, E. L. 112. ■ . Les Reports des Cases en les Ans des Roys Ed- ward v., Richard III., Henrie VII., et Henrie VIII. ; corrige et revieue : ove plusieurs bonnes Notes en la Marge par tout le Livre ; qui referrent les Cases al' Abbregement de Brook, et autres Livres des Ans. fol. London. 1679. The determinations of the Judges, before the time of Henry VII., are chiefly the result of argument and discussion, and were rarely made upon the authority of precedents. During this reign. Cases from previous Year-Books are cited by the Counsel and Judges, and Bracton is occa- sionally referred to. The Year-Book of Henry VII., North used to say, was the most useful, or rather necessary, for a student to take early in his hands and go through with, because, he had observed much of the Common Law had fluctuated before it received a settlement in that time, and from thence, as from a copious fountain, it hath been derived through other authors to ns, and now is in the state of common erudition as maxims of the law. The oflice of stipendiary reporter is believed to have been abolished at the close of Henry VII. 's reign, and the Cases during the time of Henry VIII., which are published with the Year- Books, were not officially reported, and possess but little value. Fleet- wood tells us that they are collected with so little judgment that he did not think them fit to be placed in the Tables which he made of these Books, and he, therefore, composed a separate Table of the Cases of 755
