NOY NOTIFICATIONS, Orders, and Instructions relating to Prize Subjects, during the present War. 2d edit. 8vo. London. 1814. NOVA STATUTA. (Without date, place, or printer's name.) fol. This is the title of a large volume of Statutes, from the 1st of Edw. Ill, to the 22d of Edw. IV., which is placed by Herbert among the pro- ductions of an unknown printer. This book may be considered one of the most magnificent, and intrinsically vahiable volumes of the 15th century. Machlina appears to have gathered his scattered pieces of the Statutes previously published, and to have published this as the first perfect collection of the whole. 2 Dibdin's Ames, pp. 11 and 12. . Emprinted per my Richarde Pynson. fol. The Statutes begin with 1 Edw. III. in Norman or Law French for the most part, but some in Latin, to the 1 Hen. VII., and from that time all the Statutes are in English ; and are so continued to the 12 Hen. VII. inclusive. Hence it has been concluded, that this book was printed in 1497. 2 Dibden's Ames, 470. NOVyE NARRATIONES. Herein is contained the Booke called the Articuli ad Novas Narrationes, and the Booke of Diversitees of Courtes. 12mo. London. 1561. This work gives such Forms of Counts, Declarations, Defences, Pleas, &c., as were in use in the time of Edw. HI. It was first printed in French about 1516. The Jlriiculi is a brief treatise upon the method of Pleading, or a commentary upon the Novas Narrationes. There is also a book of Forms called the Old Narrationes — " But all these are kv and defective, in comparison of what we have in those books of Entries which are the works of later times ; the chief whereof are those by W. Rastal, Sir Edward Coke, and Sir Humphrey Winch. Out of these three, a great many late pedlers in Precedents, have collected and pub- lished what to their several little wisdoms appear to be of most common and ordinary use; and 'twere endless to repeat so much as the title pages of such insignificant retailers." Nic. Eng. Hist. Lib. 161 ; 3 Reeves, 152; 10 Co. Rep. Pref. 27. NOY, WM. Reports of Cases in the Time of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Ciiarles; containing most excellent matter of Exceptions to all manner of Declarations, Pleadings, and De- murrers. 2d ed., corrected and enlarged, fol. London. 1669. Mr. Hargrave says " It may not be amiss to apprise the student that though the book is known by the name of that very learned lawyer, yet there is not the least reason to suppose, that such a loose collection of notes was intended by him for the public eye. In an edition of Noy's 541
