John Prysot

- Bef 1461

• Name	John Prysot
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 17 May 1461  [1, 2]
  Person ID	I17552	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	John Prisot,   b. of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England
  Family ID	F10751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret   d. Aft 1474
  Children	+ 1. Maud Prisot
  Family ID	F10750	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Chief justice of the common pleas. "Prysot was known as a learned judge--he is recorded as citing a law book of Edward I's time which was probably Britton. His opinions are frequently recorded in the law reports, for instance in his argument for statute as the only 'positive' law, taking precedence over prescription. He was said to have assisted Sir Thomas Littleton (d. 1481) in the preparation of the latter's Tenures, and his opinions were still being referred to over a century after his death." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.