[NOY (William)]: - A Treatise of the Principall Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes of the Kingdome. Very usefull and commodious for all Students, and such others as desire the Knowledge, and Understanding of the Lawe. Written by that most Excellent, and Learned Expositor of the Law. W. N. of Lincolns-Inne, Esquire.

London, Printed for W. Cook, and are to be sold at Furnivals-Inne, in Holborn, 1642. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 242 x 84 mms. pp. [x] , 179 [180], with the blank leaf before the first page of text, contemporary calf, gilt border on covers, small gilt ornament in the centre of each cover; top and base of spine chipped, joints slightly tender, corners worn, but a sound copy, with notes in a contemporary hand on the recto of the font free end-paper; and on the recto of the next blank leaf, "Thos Jervoise 1619"; and further notes in a contemporary hand on the verso of one of the rear free end-papers, an affirmation of faith. The lawyer and politician William Noy [Noye], (1577–1634), later (1631) Attorney-General could be said to have had a chequered career, having a political change of heart, as one of his contemporaries asserted "He was for many years the stoutest champion for the subject's liberty, until King Charles entertained him to be his Attorney. No sooner did the King show him the line of advancement, but, quitting all his former inclinations, he wheeled about to the prerogative, and made amends with his future service, for all his former disobligements" (ODNB). Almost two centuries later, Carlyle descriabed him as "morose, amorphous, cynical Law Pedant, an invincible living heap of learned rubbish: once a Patriot in Parliament, till they made him Attorney General and enlightened his eyes." Like many of his books, this one was published possthumously. OCLC locates copies in BL, Huntington, Library of Congress, Georgetown, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Michigan, William and Masry.

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