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Robert NICHOLAS 1595-1667

Biographical Note

Judge of the Upper Bench and Baron of the Exchequer during the Interregnum.

Books

Gave books to Queen’s College, Oxford. Ca.25 legal manuscripts from his collections – mostly 17th c copies of law reports, for use in his legal practice – survive in the “Royal Library” (John Moore’s collection) in Cambridge University Library. His library may have been dispersed during the time of his grandson, the MP Oliver Nicholas (1651-1716).

Sources

  • Baker, J. Catalogue of English legal manuscripts in Cambridge University Library, 1996, li-lii.
  • Morgan, P. Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian. 2nd edn, Oxford, 1980.
  • Orr, D. A. "Nicholas, Robert (bap. 1595, d. 1667), judge." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.