Note 151 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

The history of these writs is given, with a fulness and accuracy which leaves nothing to be desired, in the Appendix to Quincy's Reports, by Horace Gray, Jr. (now Mr. Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court of the United States). Besides other sources of unpublished information, in England and America, Mr. Gray had access to the Bernard Papers (now in Harvard University library); in his administration these writs were legalized and efficiently used.