Henry Finch (died 1625)
Sir Henry Finch (died 1625) was an English lawyer and politician, created serjeant-at-law and knighted, and remembered as a legal writer.
Life
He was born the son of Sir
In February 1593, he was elected to parliament for
In 1613 he was appointed recorder of
He died in October 1625, and was buried in the parish church of Boxley, Kent. He had married Ursula, the daughter and heiress of John Thwaites of Kent, with whom he had two sons.
Calling of the Jews
In 1621 he published a work entitled The World's Great Restauration, or Calling of the Jews, and with them of all Nations and Kingdoms of the Earth to the Faith of Christ. In it he seems to have predicted, in the near future, the restoration of temporal dominion to the
Legal works
Finch published in 1613 a legal treatise Nomotexnia.
Nomotexnia consists of four books. The first is mainly devoted to the distinction between
Family
He was the second surviving son of Sir Thomas Finch of Eastwell, Kent, by Catherine, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Moyle. His elder brother became Sir Moyle Finch, 1st Baronet. By his wife Ursula, daughter of John Thwaites of Kent, he was the father of John Finch, speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Charles I, and of Edward Finch (fl. 1630-1641), Royalist divine.
Notes
- ^ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
- ^ Scult, Mel (1978). Millennial Expectations and Jewish Liberties: A Study of the Efforts to Convert the Jews in Britain, Up to the Mid Nineteenth Century. Brill Archive. pps.19-20.
- ^ Νομοτεχνία, cestascavoir un Description del Common Leys d'Angleterre solonque les Rules del Art Parallelees ove les Prerogative le Roy, &c.,&c., Per Henrie Finch de Graye's Inne, Apprentice del Ley.
- ^ "Online Library of Liberty".
- ^ David J. Seipp, The Structure of English Common Law in the Seventeenth Century, p. 76, in William M. Gordon, T. D. Fergus (editors) Legal history in the making: proceedings of the ninth British Legal History Conference, Glasgow 1989 (1991).
- ^ Law, or a Discourse thereof in Four Books, written in French by Sir Henry Finch, Knight, His Majesty's Serjeant-at-law, done into English by the same author,' 1627; 1636; 1678.
- ^ A Description of the Common Laws of England according to the Rules of Art compared with the Prerogatives of the King (London: A. Millar, 1759).
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Finch, Henry (d.1625)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Further reading
- Wilfrid Prest, The Dialectical Origins of Finch's Law, The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Nov., 1977), pp. 326–352
External links
- Hutchinson, John (1892). . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. pp. 46–47.