Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
John Baynes was possibly the father of another John Baynes, also a lawyer, who lived c 1676-1736.
Manuscript legal commonplace book compiled between the Hilary term 1683 and September 1684, with additions up to c 1698, and a printed index added in 1680, entitled
Single item.
The manuscript contains four bookplates, including those of Sir William Lee, Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1688-1754), William Lee Antonie (1764-1815), and Francis Henry Jeune, Baron St Helier (1843-1905). There is also a 19th century bookplate of the Lee family of Hartwell, Buckinghamshire. A note on the inner front cover by John Lee (d 1866), states that 'These manuscripts after the decease of Chief Justice [William] Lee were sent with many of his books & papers from his house in Bloomsbury Square to Totteridge Park, Hertfordshire, and afterwards from thence to Hartwell House after the decease of his grand-daughter - Mrs. Arrowsmith [Louisa Lee, later wife of Edward Arrowsmith]'.
14¼" x 9¼". Parchment binding, 'repaired by Mr Partridge of Aylesbury, 1861'.
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Given to the University of London Library by New College, Hampstead in 1960.
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Collection level description.
University of London MS 539 is another legal commonplace book with a similar provenance.
The papers of the Lee family are in the Buckinghamshire Record Office.