Books by "Patrick M. Wright"
8 books found
This 1999 book was the first full-length account of the county court, which in contemporary English life has become the main forum for most civil disputes. It began as the 'poor man's court', largely concerned with the pursuit of working-class debtors; but, as this book shows, it has expanded far beyond its origins as an agency `for the more easy recovery of small debts' and now includes in its jurisdiction a diverse range of matters, including housing, accidents and consumer goods. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the author traces the history of the county court from its creation in 1846 through to the reconstruction of the court system in 1971. He describes its organisation and officers, from judges to bailiffs, and discusses the roles of judges, practising lawyers and lay persons. The text is an intriguing engagement with themes including access to justice.
Virginia and West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records, Volume 4 Nabors-Rymer
by Patrick G. Wardell
2009 · Heritage Books
Compilation of genealogical data pertaining to Virginians and West Virginians who served in the Revolutionary War as derived from the pension and bounty land warrant files in the National Archives. It is not limited to men who served for Virginia in the war, but includes all men who the records show resided in Virginia or West Virginia either before or after the war, or whose immediate family lived in either of these two states. Abstracts include all of the genealogical data that could be culled from the microfilm records. In addition to the name of the principal, they usually provide some of the following: date and place of birth, marriage, and death; names of parents, siblings, children or other relatives; places of residence, occupation, and military service.
John Baskervyle (1637-1679) immigrated about 1662 from England to York County, Virginia, and married Mary Barber. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Baskerville or Baskervill) and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes English ancestry and genealogical data to 1266 A.D.
A recently-published second-century papyrus, P.Oxy. 5283, contains prose summaries (hypotheses) of six plays by the Greek dramatist Euripides, including two lost plays depicting the hero Perseus, Dictys and Danaë. This book demonstrates the significance of this discovery for our understanding of Greek tragedy. After setting out the mythological and dramatic context, and offering a new text and translation based on autopsy, the book analyses the light which the papyrus sheds on these plays, whose narratives, centred on female resistance to abusive male tyrants, speak as powerfully to us today as they did to their original audiences. It then investigates Euripides’ tragic trilogy of 431 BC, which ended with Dictys and began with Medea, whose dramatic power now stands in sharper focus given our improved understanding of the production in which it originally appeared. Finally, it ponders the purpose which these hypotheses served, and why readers in the second century AD should have wanted a summary of plays written more than half a millennium before. All Greek (and Latin) is translated, making the book accessible not just to classicists, but to theatre historians and to anyone interested in Greek literature, drama, and mythology.