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Second edition, the last published, one of two issues from 1639, of this work of tremendous social and historical interest discussing the \u2018Arguments and opinions of foure famous sages of the common law, touching the power, and the extent of customes of Cities, Townes, Corporations, and inheritances, together with the determination of the Law concerning the commodity and use of Houses with their appurtenances, and wherein an action may be maintainable concerning the same, and wherein not.\u2019 The four \u201cfamous Sages\u201d of the common law cited in the work are Robert Monson, Christopher Wray, Edmund Plowden, and John Manwood. The work provides great insight into the difficulties arising for householders living in the city often surrounded by heavily polluting industries. \u201cEarly modern London burned quantities of dirty coal that were unparalleled anywhere in Europe before industrialisation, and the consequent smoky air was a matter of more serious and sustained concern than has been appreciated by either early modern or environmental historians. During the 1620s and 1630s, King Charles I and his government sought to remove smoky industries, above all large brewhouses, from the vicinity of the court in Westminster.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>William M. Cavert<\/i><\/p>\n

The work addresses legal restrictions imposed by building laws, such as the location of windows and drains, and particularly the absence of effective laws to reduce urban nuisances, such as smoke, poor drainage and noise, and such questions as a householder’s right to “light and ayre\u201d. It also questions the relation between the common law and the city laws and customs of London. It provides much insight into the problems of city living in the Elizabethan period. \u201cRoy Strong observes in his history of the Renaissance garden that the evolution of \u201csmaller\u201d privy gardens in larger, wealthier households almost always involved \u201ca division between the private and public domains,\u201d which suggests that portions of gardens were partitioned off to ensure isolation. \u2018A Brief Declaration .. (etc)\u2019 (1639) illustrates the need for the garden\u2019s seclusion from servants when Robert Monson warns, \u201cif you make your windows into our garden, this is a wrong unto us, for by this means I cannot talk with my friends in my private garden but your servant may see what I do\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

There follows a long section, of great social interest, in the form of question and answers dealing with the workings of the Poor Laws and the various liabilities and duties of local officials; it discusses the indigent, sick and insane, the drunk, and the liabilities and duties of local officials, such as the powers of a town mayor to imprison a suspect for three days without trial, and the culpability of a landowner who fells trees on to another man’s land. etc. Of particular interest is a discussion of unwanted pregnancies, children born out of wedlock, such things as whether \u2018a Justice of Peace may \u201cdischarge a servant being with childe from her service\u201d, the rights of \u2018Bastard children\u2019 and their mothers. <\/i><\/p>\n

A rare and most interesting work. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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