Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Originally published: San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942. vii, 194 pp. Thorne’s edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [1540?–1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. Reprint of first edition.