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 cow on him (as to this particular,) was only a modest recital of Hottoman's raillery and objections; under the word Littleton." But this, together with Coke's proverbial hatred of the civilians, was enough to excite his deep and continued animosity towards Cowell, who, chiefly through Coke's influence, was thrown into prison, threatened to be hanged, and his Interpreter was suppressed by a royal proclamation and publicly burned; "for which the Commons returned thanks with great joy at their victory." The edition of 1638 is purged from the objectionable passages. The Interpreter, by Thomas Manley, in 1G72, and by several anonymous editors since that time, has been considerably enlarged. Selden and other writers, of, and since his time, have freely used the work, and pre- vious to Jacobs' it was the best existing Law Dictionary. " With the exception of the prerogative doctrines in Cowell's Interpreter, it is a useful work, and is an excellent glossary to Coke Littleton and the old law books, and will be found of considerable utility to a modern student of English law and antiquities." 1 Hall. Const. His. 444; Eunomus, 126; Biog. Brit. art. Cowell; 1 Kent's Com. 508; Gregor's Fortescue, Pref. 17; 3 Nic. Hist. Lib. 177; 2 L. M. 513. COWEN, ESEK. General Digested Index to the nine volumes of his Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court and Court of Errors in New York. 8vo. Albany. 1831. This volume is in continuation of Johnson's Digest, and is regarded as a very correct model for works of this class, but is now nearly or quite superseded by Clerk's Digest. ' ' . Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court, and in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors, of the State of New York ; from May Term, 1823, to Aug. T. 1838. 9 vols. 8vo. New York. 1824-30. Some of the early volumes contain many unimportant Certiorari Cases from the Justices' Courts. The supposed or real faults of the Reports are pointed out in an illiberal review of them in 2 U. S. L. J. .. A Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace, in the State of New York. 8vo. Albany. 1821. 2d ed. Revised by Sidney J. Covven. 2 vols. 1841. 3d cd. By 0. L. Barbour. 2 vols. 1844. No law book, local in its character, enjoys a better or more widely extended reputation than Cowen's Treatise. Since its first publication it has been a favorite work, and from its excellent method, completeness, 234