Sid. - Siderfin's King's Bench Reports (England and Wales)
Forming part of the English Reports, Volume 82.
Coverage was from 1657 to 1670, in two volumes: volume 1, 1660 to 1670; volume 2, 1657 to 1659.
Siderfin's reports covered the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of Exchequer.
Siderfin, also sometimes presented as Syderfin, was apparently a very colorful lawyer:
"This Mr. Syderfin was a Somerset gentleman and proved a very good lawyer, as his book, two volumes in folio shows. but he was not a better lawyer than a kind and good-natured friend having very good qualities under a rustic behaviour and more uncouth physiognomy. He used at the Temple to be described by his hatchet face and shoulder of mutton hand, and he walked splay, stooping and noddling."
This, from Lives of the North, quoted in volume 5 of the 1924 book A History of English Law, at page 367, by W. S. Holdsworth. The same refernce adds, crypotically:
"The only thing which I ever heard him blamed for was the marrying (of) a lady that was his ward before her minority was expired."
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