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Ferdinando Pulton

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Ferdinando Pulton[1] (1536–1618) was an English legal writer, the first to attempt a comprehensive book treating criminal law. This was his De pace Regis et regni, first published in 1609.[2]

Pulton belonged to Lincoln's Inn, but he was a Roman Catholic, so that at that time a legal career was denied to him. He was a student at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

He wrote also a Collection of Sundrie Statutes (1618). This is credited with making the term Star Chamber common in use.[3] An earlier work was his Abstract of all the Penal Statutes.[4]

He resided in Bourton, Buckinghamshire.[5]

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  • Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  • Heltzel, Virgil B. (1947). "Ferdinando Pulton, Elizabethan Legal Editor". Huntington Library Quarterly. 11 (1). University of Pennsylvania Press: 77–79. doi:10.2307/3816033. JSTOR 3816033.

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