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I had the privilege of talking to and recording the reminiscences of David Eryl Corbet Yale deep into his retirement in his characterful, but isolated home on the edge of Snowdonia in November Although only a mile from the centre of Porthmadog, the surrounding woods and rugged, rocky skyline hint of the wilderness that lies not far away. He and his wife Ann had retreated thence in and David had returned to the home of his childhood. Fittingly in Wales, he thus reconnects to his ancestral roots, though the Yales originated in NE Wales, where the mediaeval commote of Iâl (= Yale) was part of the lands of the Marcher Lordship of Bromfield and Yale (in modern Denbighshire). Speaking to David Yale in his rural setting greatly added to my appreciation of his life and career. Wales loaned David to Cambridge for 40 years, and has now reclaimed him. More of this anon.

David Yale has followed a career as a legal historian of the common law, and as such is in the Cambridge pantheon that includes Frederic Maitland [1], Toby Milsom [2], Michael Prichard [3] and more recently John Baker [4], David Ibbetson [5], and Neil Jones [6]. Surprisingly, h

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