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May,
2003 Dear Member, Once
again it is time for us to request payment of your annual dues. The rate remains $50.00 for individual
members ($65.00 for institutions).
Your prompt payment will be very much appreciated. If you are paying with a check that does
not contain your name, could you please write your name on it or include your
name on a separate piece of paper within the envelope? (Institutions should include a copy of the
invoice form.) This will save us much
time here. Volume
120 (for 2003) will be an edition of previously unprinted reports from the
years 1509–1550 by Professor J. H. Baker.
This will complete Professor Baker’s current undertakings with respect
to the early Tudor law reports, publications that, it is fair to say, have
totally revised our understanding of what happened during these crucial
years. Volume
119 (for 2002) was an edition of the Year Books 12–14 Henry VIII by
Professor J. H. Baker. It is the
first year book volume to be edited solely from printed texts, no manuscript
versions having been found. The years
were chosen because they stand apart from the other Tudor year books by
reason of their fullness and their concentration on points of law settled by
judgment. The experiment will also
show how far the addition of translation and apparatus may make even printed
year book texts more accessible and provide an opportunity to consider the
merits of the early law printers.
This volume has been mailed to all members who paid their dues for the
year 2002. Please let us know if you
did not receive it. It
has not yet been determined what will be the volume for 2004. In the pipeline are further editions of
the earliest year book reports (prior to 1300), by Dr. Paul Brand. The
main series of Selden volumes is entirely in print. Volumes 1–99 have been reprinted by W. S. Hein & Co., Inc.,
1285 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209–1987 (phone: [800]828–7571; FAX:
[716]883–8100; email: mail@wshein.com; website: http://www.wshein.com/). The cost is $95 per volume, with a twenty
percent discount for Selden members, plus dispatch costs. Volume 100 and forward can, as before, be
obtained from the Secretary, Victor Tunkel, Selden Society, Faculty of Laws,
Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, U.K. (phone:
44 20 7882 5136; FAX: 44 20 8981 8733; email: selden-society@qmw.ac.uk). Hein
has also reprinted the four volumes of Professor Thorne’s edition of Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England. The price is $395, with a discount to
Selden members of twenty percent, plus dispatch costs. Simultaneously, the Ames Foundation, the
Harvard Law School Library, and the Legal Information Institute of the
Cornell Law School have produced a fully-searchable “on-line” version of both
the Latin and the English text of Bracton. It is available on the “world-wide web”
at: http://bracton.law.cornell.edu/bracton/Common/index.html The
Ames Foundation, which, as many Selden members know, is an organization
similar to Selden, though its publications are more irregular, has recently
entered into a distribution agreement with Hein & Co. Hein has the stock of Ames back volumes
and has reprinted those volumes that are out of print. Hein has also agreed to give discounts on
Ames volumes to Selden members similar to those that Ames has offered in the
past. We
call your attention to the “web page” for the Selden Society. This contains a complete list of Selden
publications and other information that we hope will be useful. It is available on the “world-wide web”
at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/selden_society/ Links may found on this page to Selden’s
London web page. A similar “web page”
for the Ames Foundation is available at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/ames_foundation/ Members
will receive the announcement of the Society’s Annual General Meeting at
Lincoln’s Inn in London on Tuesday, 8 July, at 6:45 p.m. Yours
sincerely, Charles
Donahue, Jr. David
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