David Eryl Corbet Yale, QC (Hon.), Reader in English Legal History and Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, specialised in the history of the 17th-century Chancery and Admiralty jurisdictions. His principal publications were editions, with book-length introductions, to the Chancery reports of Lord Nottingham, Nottingham’s two treatises on Chancery jurisdiction, two treatises by Sir Matthew Hale on the prerogatives of the king and on the Admiralty jurisdiction, and the Elizabethan treatise by William Fleetwood on the Court of Admiralty.
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