[1] Barnardiston the eldest child of Thomas Barnardiston (born[2] 1677), of Wyverstone and Bury St Edmunds, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet.,[3] who married on 28 June 1705.
[5] After Bury school, he was admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1722, and to the Middle Temple in 1723.
In the following century Lord Lyndhurst recalled that when he was a young barrister it was said that the reports were actually nonsense scribbled by a practical joker in the Serjeant's notebook while he was taking a nap.
[1] Barnardiston's King's Bench reports have also been repeatedly denounced, but also frequently cited.
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