Eighteenth-century equity lawsuits in the court of Exchequer as a source for historical research

Historical Research

Volumn 70, Issue 172, 1997, Pages 231-246

  Milhous, Judith ^a   Hume, Robert D ^a  

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EID: 0041838051     PISSN: 09503471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.00041     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. H. Horwitz, Chancery Equity Records and Proceedings 1600-1800 (Public Record Office Handbook xxvii, 1995). Horwitz supplies a lucid account of the English bill procedure followed by Chancery and by Exchequer.
2. M, Dowling, 'Public Record Office research: the equity side of Chancery, 1558-1714', Rev. English Studies, viii (1932), 185-200.
3. D. B. Fowler, The Practice of the Court of Exchequer, upon Proceedings in Equity (2 vols., 1795).
4. Two specialist articles are useful for understanding the records of the court: R M. Ball, 'Tobias Eden, change and conflict in the Exchequer office, 1672-98';
5. idem, 'The King's Remembrancer's office in the 18th century', Jour. Legal Hist., xi (1990), 70-89, 90-113.
6. W. H. Bryson, The Equity Side of the Exchequer (Cambridge, 1975).
7. The English Reports (176 vols., Edinburgh, 1900-32). Vols. cxlv-clx concern Exchequer.
8. We have written the episode up at 30 pages' length: J. Milhous and R. D. Hume, 'Thomas Doggett at Cambridge in 1701', Theatre Notebook, forthcoming.
9. See C. Price, J. Milhous and R. D. Hume, Italian Opera in Late 18th-Century London, i: The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-91 (Oxford, 1995), Appendix I.
10. Memoirs of Lorenzo da Ponte, trans. L.A. Sheppard (1929), esp. chs. viii, x.
11. See, e.g., J. Small, 'J. C. Bach goes to law', Musical Times, cxxvi ( 1985), 526-9;
12. D. Hunter, 'Musical copyright in Britain to 1800', Music and Letters, lxvii (1986), 269-82;
13. Price, Milhous and Hume, i. 389-93;
14. R. Rabin and S. Zolin, 'Arne, Handel, Walsh and music as intellectual property: two 18th-century lawsuits', Jour. Royal Musical Assoc., cxx (1995), 112-45.
15. On this see N. A. Mace, 'Haydn and the London music sellers: Forster v. Longman and Broderip', Music and Letters, lxxvii (1996), 527-41.
16. E 112/976, no. 48 (Heidegger v. Swiney). This information has been analysed at length in J. Milhous and R. D. Hume, 'Heidegger and the management of the Haymarket Opera, 1713-17', Early Music, forthcoming late 1997 or early 1998.
17. New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. S. Sadie (4 vols., 1992), ii. 1090;
18. company finances reconstructed in J. Milhous and R. D. Hume, 'J. F. Lampe and English opera at the Little Haymarket, 1732-3', Music and Letters, forthcoming late 1997 or early 1998.
19. E 112/1223, no. 2965 (Holt v. Lowe and Arne). The intellectual property issues are analysed in J. Milhous and R. D. Hume, 'Librettist versus composer: the property rights to Arne's Henry and Emma and Don Saverio',Jour. Royal Musical Assoc., forthcoming May 1997.
20. detailed fee and copyright information set out in J. Millious and R. D. Hume, 'Profits from play publication: the evidence of Murphy v. Vaillant', Studies in Bibliography, forthcoming early 1998.
21. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800, comp, P.H. Highfill, Jr., K. A. Burnim and E. A. Langhans (16 vols., Carbondale, Ill., 1973-93), vi 388-97.
22. C. Dickens, Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, ed. R. Findlater (1968).