William Staunford

William Staunford

Sir William Staunford (1509 - 28 August 1558) was an English jurist and was appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1554.

In 1557 Staunford published the first textbook of English criminal law; "Les Plees del Coron". In 1561 his "An Exposicion of the Kinges Prerogative" (which he wrote in 1548) was published. William Fulbecke wrote in "A Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law" (1600):

In Master Staunford there is force and weight, and no common kind of stile; in matter none hath gone beyonde him, in method, none hath overtaken him; in the order of his writing hee is smoothe, yet sharpe, pleasant, but yet grave; famous both for Judgement in matters of his profession, and for his great skill in forraigne learning, And surely his method may be a Law to the writers of the Law which succede him. [Quoted in G. R. Elton, 'The rule of law in sixteenth-century England', "Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume I" (Cambridge University Press, 1974), p. 264.]

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