Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

by Various

LEGAL WORTHIES, QUERIES RESPECTING.

I shall be much obliged for any information or hints as to the following Queries:—

1. Is there any list extant of the Prothonotaries of the Supreme Courts of Judicature from the time of Edward III. downwards, or any source from which their names could be obtained? Was John Hayward a prothonotary of one of the courts in Edward III.'s time, or during the reign immediately following? or can any information be furnished about a lawyer of that name about that time?

2. Is anything known of a place called "Schypmen Hall" existing in London or elsewhere in the time of Edward IV.?

3. When did "Mr. Goldsborough, one of the Prothonotaries of the Common Banke," flourish?

4. Is anything known of Traherne, said to have been reader at Lincoln's Inn temp. Hen. VIII., whose Reading on Forest Laws is much referred to by Manwood?

5. Is anything known of Frowick, a lawyer probably of the sixteenth century?

C. W. G.