Albericus, a laborious jurisconsult of the sixteenth century, with more erudition than taste or judgment, was born in 1551 at Castello-di-San-Genesio, in the march of Ancona, and studied at Perugia, where he took the degree of doctor in civil law at the age of twenty-one. Soon afterwards he obtained the situation of judge in the city of Ascoli; but not having it in his power to protest there in security the Protestant religion, of which he was an ardent follower, he went to seek an asylum in Carniola, and ultimately in England. During his stay at London, where he continued for several years, he lived entirely on the bounty of some generous friends of the sciences. At length the Earl of Leicester, his protector, procured him, in 1587, the chair of law in the university of Oxford, of which he was chancellor. This place, with the appointment which Gentilis soon afterwards received of perpetual advocate of the subjects of the king of Spain, in all causes which they might have in England, enabled him to spend the remainder of his days in comfort. He died at the commencement of the year 1611. The labours of Albericus Gentilis in jurisprudence give him but small claims to our esteem. His views are often erroneous, and the sound doctrines which may be found in his works are buried in a mass of citations without end, from the philo-