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He was educated at Douai , and in 1775 entered at Lincoln's Inn . He had considerable practice as a conveyancer, and after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 was called to the bar. In 1832 he took silk, and was made a bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

His literary activity was enormous, and the number of his published works comprises about fifty volumes. The most important of them are:
  • ''Reminiscences'' (1821–1827)

  • ''Horae Biblicae'' (1797), which has passed through several editions

  • ''Horae Juridicae Subsecivae'' (1804)

  • ''Book of the Roman Catholic Church'' (1825), which was directed against Southey and excited some controversy

  • lives of Erasmus , Grotius , Bossuet , Fénelon

  • He also edited and completed the ''Lives of the Saints'' of his uncle, Alban Butler , Fearne 's ''Essay on Contingent Remainders'' and Hargrave's edition of Coke upon Littleton 's ''Laws of England'' (1775).


A complete list of Butler's works is contained in Joseph Gillow 's ''Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics'', vol. i. pp. 357-364.


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