Sir John Comyns

(1667-1740)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Comyns, John, Sir, d. 1740 DNB: Comyns, Sir John (c.1667–1740), judge and legal writer LBT ID: JoComyn1740 VIAF ID: 89853298 LOC ID: n85252272	B/BAP: 1667 DIED: 1740-11-13
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Tory barrister; he was lord chief baron of the exchequer (1738) and author of Digest of the Laws of England.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Comyns: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 19 November 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. V. 1797