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 of A Compendious View of the late Troubles. This was followed by many other works of a poetical and antiquarian character, including Poems on St. Paul's Cathedral (1697); A History of the English Stage (1699). He was a great collector of literary curiosities, all of which, however, unfortunately perished in the fire of the Middle Temple in 1678. He died sometime in the year 1713.

In the year 1670, the year of his admission, he presented a copy of his Antiquities of Rutland to the Inn. This, which was probably a MS. copy, being fourteen years before the date of publication, has disappeared. The copy in the Library contains the Additions of 1687.

Admitted 10 May, 1802.

Second son of Thomas Wylde of Warwick Square, Christ Church parish. City of London (and elder brother of Lord Truro). He was educated at St. Paid's School (where he was "captain") and at Cambridge. In the Temple he read in the chambers of (q.v.) and was called to the Bar 8 Nov. 1805, in which year he also proceeded LL.D. In 1827 he was knighted and matle Chief Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, where he assisted in the drafting of the Constitution of the Colony and became President of the first Cape Parliament. He died Dec. 1859.

WYNFORD, BARON. See BEST, WILLIAM DRAPER.

Admitted 11 February, 1748-9.

"Eldest son of William Wynne, Law Student, and relative of Francis Luttrell, Treasurer of the Middle Temple." He was called to the Bar 24 Nov. 1758, and was the author of the following treatises: Miscellany, containing several Law Tracts, viz.: (1) On Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium; (2) Things annexed to the Freehold and Things severed from it; (3) On Collateral Consanguinity; (4) An Account of the Trial of the Pix; (5) On the Court of Claims; (6) An Answer to the Passages in the Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors; (7) Observations on the Antiquity of the Degree of Serjeant from a M.S. of Mr. Serjeant Wynne (1765); Concerning Parochial Provisions for the Poor (1767); Eunomus, or Dialogues concerning the Law and Constitution of England (1767). He is also supposed to have been the author of Lives of Eminent Lawyers, published in 1793. Mr. Wynne died on 27 Dec, 1784, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. In his Eunomus (ed. 1822) he is described as of the Inner Temple.

Admitted 12 December, 1712.

Son and heir of Oscar Wj-nne of St. Margaret's, Westminster. He was called to the Bar 23 May, 1718, and made Serjeant, with fourteen others, 17 May, 1735. He was engaged as counsel, with Sir (q.v.),