Mirror des justices. This singular work has raised much doubt and difference of opinion concerning its antiquity. Some have pronounced it older than the Conquest, others have ascribed it to the time of Edward II.
This book, which bears the name of Andrew Horne, and is written with very little precision, treats of all branches of the law, whether civil or criminal. Besides this, it gives a cursory retrospect of some changes ordained by former kings; enumerates a list of abuses, as the author terms them, of the Common Law, proposing, at the same time, what he considers to be desirable corrections. He does the same with Magna Charta, the Statutes of Merton and Marlbridge, and some principal Acts in the reign of Edward I, 2 Reeves, c. xii. 358.