John Cowell

John Cowell, 1554-1611

Biographical Details

• First name: John
• Last name: Cowell
• Birth date: 1554
• Death date: 1611
• Creations: Computer file, Language material, Text
• Roles: Author
• Permalink: https://biography.lawi.org.uk/john-cowell/ (Stable identifier)

Other names of John Cowell

• Cowel, John
• Cowell (Dr)
• Cowell, Johannes
• Cowell, John
• Cowellus, Iohannes
• Cowellus, Johannes
• John Cowell
• John Cowell (English jurist)
• John Cowell (jurisconsulte anglais dans le Royaume d’Angleterre des XVIe-début XVIIe siècles)

Publisher related with John Cowell, 1554-1611

People related with John Cowell

• A.L
• Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
• Kennett, White (1660-1728)
• Manley, Thomas (1628-1690)
• Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
• W. G

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Publications by John Cowell

• The interpreter.
• The institutes of the lawes of England: digested into the method of the civill or imperiall institutions: useful for all gentleman who are studious, and desire to understand the customes of this nation
• The interpreter, or, Book containing the signification of words: wherein is set forth the true meaning of all … words and terms as are mentioned in the law-writers or statutes … requiring any exposition or interpretation: a work not only profitable but necessary for such as desire thoroughly to be instructed in the knowledge of our laws, statutes, or other antiquities
• The interpreter of words and terms: used either in the common or statute laws of this realm, and in tenures and jocular customs: with an appendix, containing the antient names of places in England, very necessary for the use of all young students, that converse with antient deeds, charters, &c.
• A law dictionary: or, the interpreter of words and terms, used either in the common or statute laws of that Part Of Great Britain, call’d England ; and in tenures and jocular customs: first published by the Learned Dr. Cowel, and now very much augmented and improv’d, by the Addition of many Thousand Words, as are found in our Histories, Antiquities, Cartularies, Rolls, Registers, and other Manuscript Records, not hitherto Explain’d in any Dictionary, to the Year 1708. With an appendix, containing the antient names of places in (that part of Great-Britain call’d) England, very necessary for the use of all such, that Converse with Ancient Deeds, Charters, &c.
• Nŏmŏthĕtes, the interpreter: containing the genuine signification of such obscure words and terms used either in the common or statute lawes of this realm, first compiled by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now enlarged from the collection of all others who have written in this kind: with an addition of many words omitted by all former writers, and pertinent to this matter, with their etymologies as often as they occur, as also tenures whether jocular, or others statues and records, wherein the alterations are expressed, and their agreement or dissonancy, with the law at present declared: whereunto is subjoyned an appendix, containing the ancient names of places here in England, very necessary for the use of all young students, who intend to converse with old records, deeds of charters …
• Nŏmŏthĕtes, the interpreter: containing the genuine signification of such obscure words and terms used either in the common or statute lawes of this realm, first compiled by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now enlarged
• The interpreter: containing the genuine signification of such obscure words and terms used either in the common or statute lawes of this realm, first compiled by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now enlarged from the collections of all others who have written in this kind.

See Also

Born in 1554, Cowell, Died in 1611, England, English language–Obsolete words, Gazetteers, Great Britain, Henry Twyford & others, John, Legal maxims, Names, Names-Geographical, Names-Geographical–England