CESARE, Sir Julius, a learned civilian, was descended by the female line from the Dukes de' Cessarini in Italy, and was born near Tottenham in Middlesex in the year 1557. He was educated at Oxford, and afterwards studied in the university of Paris, where in the year 1581 he was created doctor of the civil law. Two years afterwards he was admitted to the same degree at Oxford, and also became doctor of the canon law. He was advanced to many honourable employments, and for the last twenty years of his life was master of the rolls. Sir Julius was remarkable for his bounty and charity to all persons of worth, so that he seemed to be the almoner-general of the nation. He died in 1639, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. It is worthy of notice that the manuscripts of this lawyer were offered by the executors of some of his descendants to a cheesemonger as waste paper; but their value having accidentally been discovered they were sold by auction in 1757 for upwards of £500. Many of these MSS. are now in the British Museum.