Les Reports des divers resolutions et judgement donne par les de la Ley en le Temps del Reigne de Hen.
I. is the title of a collection of nominate reports, by Gulielme Bendloe,[1] of cases decided between approximately 1531 and 1628.
It appears that extracts and abridgments from the original manuscript were made by different person's, and published as Bendloe's Reports.
John Rowe, who edited Bendloe's Reports and published with them Dalison's, says of the former: "In one copy which I have there are in all two hundred and forty cases, which are many more than are in the best former edition; in another, there are but about one hundred cases, and that was my Lord Coke's own copy, which he used and noted with his own hand; and it is manifest that these different copies were but notes and extracts from the original, wherein such as collected them made use of their own judgements in the manner of abridging and in the choice of the cases."
Bendloe's Reports were formerly much cited, and that they "contain notable matters and resolutions in law, profitable to be known and fit for argument, doth evidently appear even by that great Rabbi of the law, Sir Edward Coke, in the arguing of whose reports (and also in his Institutes,) no small authority is given to those of our author."