Reports of cases in the reigns of Hen. Viii. Edw. VI. Q. Mary, and Q. Eliz. taken and collected by Sir James Dyer, Knt. Some time Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Now first translated, with additional references to the latest books of authority, marginal abstracts of the points determined in each case, and an entire new index to the whole, by John Vaillant, M. A. of The Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. To this edition a life of the author is prefixed; and From an Original Manuscript in the Library of the Inner Temple several new cases of his are introduced in the notes. In three parts. Part I.