Author:Edward Smirke

Edward Smirke
(1795–1875)

Works

• Wallace, a poem, (1815)
• Report of Cases, 1670–1704, by R. Freeman, 2nd ed. (1826)
• Digest of the Law of Evidence on the Trial of Actions at Nisi Prius, by Henry Roscoe. 5th ed., with considerable additions by C. Crompton and E. Smirke, 1839; subsequent editions down to the tenth in 1861 were ‘revised and enlarged’ by him.
• Case of Vice against Thomas, with an Appendix of Records and Documents on the early History of the Tin Mines in Cornwall, (1843)
• A Letter to Lord Campbell on the Rating of Railways, 1851.
• Procedure in the Court of the Vice-warden of the Stannaries, 1856; other volumes of rules and orders were published by him in 1862, 1863, and 1870.

Articles in the Archaeological Journal

• "Observations on the Wait Service mentioned in the Liber Winton, and on the supposed Monastery of Sapalanda" in Archaeological Journal, 3 (1846), pp. 339–342
• "On certain Obscure Words in Charters" in Archaeological Journal, 5 (1848), pp. 20–24
• "Original Documents: Note on Terms Occurring in Welsh Legal Documents" in Archaeological Journal, 7 (1850), pp. 62–63
• "Original Documents: Correspondence between Bishop Grandisson and the Courtenay Family" in Archaeological Journal, 11 (1854), pp. 165–168

Works about Smirke

• "Smirke, Edward," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.