[Studentica] Verbaal (...) in de sake van David Whyte (...).

Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1719, 47 p., 19th cy half-cloth, folio.

Nice publication of various legal pieces following the death of Jean Henry Gir Holstein, former captain or lieutenant of the Dragoons in service to France, caused by the former Leiden student of English descent David Whyte. The two started fighting ("querel") on 28 December 1813 in The Hague, and Whyte killed his opponent with a sword. David Whyte had a Leiden PhD in medicine and, at the time of the incident, still lived in his student room in Leiden, at Rapenburg (corner Groenhazengracht). It is one of the 12 samples (mostly 17th-cy) cited by author P. Marcus in the first 23 pages (dated 8 May 1714), to illustrate the position of the Leiden Rector and Judges w.r.t. students and members of the university in criminal case: they alone were allowed to judge students, which was the case since the founding of the university until at least 1714. Pages 24 ff. are about various legal documents used in Whyte's case.