Ferdinando Pulton[1] (1536–1618) was an English legal writer, the first to attempt a comprehensive book treating criminal law. This was his De pace Regis et regni, first published in 1609.[2]
Pulton belonged to Lincoln's Inn, but he was a Roman Catholic, so that at that time a legal career was denied to him. He was a student at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.
He wrote also a Collection of Sundrie Statutes (1618). This is credited with making the term Star Chamber common in use.[3] An earlier work was his Abstract of all the Penal Statutes.[4]
He resided in Bourton, Buckinghamshire.[5]
References edit
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Heltzel, Virgil B. (1947). "Ferdinando Pulton, Elizabethan Legal Editor". Huntington Library Quarterly. 11 (1). University of Pennsylvania Press: 77–79. doi:10.2307/3816033. JSTOR 3816033.
Notes edit
- ^ Ferdinand, Fardinando Pulton.
- ^ In print (2005) ISBN 1-58477-697-8, ISBN 978-1-58477-697-0.
- ^ Star Chamber: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
- ^ 1586 edition at Internet Archive
- ^ "Borough of Buckingham (including Bourton, Lenborough and Gawcott)". Archived from the original on 29 July 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
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