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A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of Great Britain, and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and in this edition very much augmented and improved, by the addition of many thousand words, found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records : with an appendix, containing two tables; one of the antient names of places in Great Britain, and the other of the antient surnames; both of them very necessary for the use of all such, as converse with antient deeds, charters, &c

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Author: Cowell, John,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVII [1727]

Call Number: Book 793 1727

Alternate Title: Interpreter of words and terms

Author: Cowell, John,

Uniform Title: Interpreter

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq.) for J. Walthoe ... [and 10 others],

Date of Publication: MDCCXXVII [1727]

Physical Description: [488] p. ; 33 cm. (folio)

Notes: Originally issued with title: The interpreter, or, Booke containing the signification of words. Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607.; Signatures: Aâ¶ B-Zâ´ 2A-2Zâ´ 3A-3Nâ´ 3O-3QÂ².; The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th March, 1610, by which the first edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.; "Books lately printed": p. [488], 3Q2v.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 793 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC (RLIN)

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Dictionaries.; Names, Geographical - Great Britain.; Law.; Names, Geographical.; Great Britain.; Dictionaries.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 793 1727

Officium clerici pacis : a book of indictments, informations, inquisitions and appeals. Also the manner of holding the sessions of peace, with divers other matters relating thereunto, and necessary to be known by justices and clerks of the peace, coroners, attornies and others

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Edition: 3d ed., with large additions.

Date of Publication: 1726.

Call Number: Book 942 1726

Alternate Title: Book of indictments, informations, inquisitions, and appeals

Edition: 3d ed., with large additions.

Place of Publication: [London]

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for D. Browne, and J. Walthole,

Date of Publication: 1726.

Physical Description: 453, [17] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Introductions in English or Latin, balance of text chiefly in Latin.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 942 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Criminal law - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Justices of the peace - Great Britain - Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Criminal law.; Criminal procedure.; Justices of the peace.; Great Britain.; Handbooks and manuals.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 942 1726

The reports of Sir Edward Coke Kt. In English : compleat in thirteen parts, with references to all the antient and modern books of the law. Exactly translated and compared with the first and last edition in French, and printed page for page with the same. To which are now added the pleadings to the cases

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Date of Publication: M. DCC. XXVII. [1727]

Call Number: Book 895 1727; Book 896 1727; Book 897 1727; Book 898 1727; Book 899 1727; Book 900 1727; Book 901 1717

Alternate Title: Certain select cases in law; First part of the reports of Sir Edward Coke; General table to the first eleven books of the Reports of ... Sir Edward Coke

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Uniform Title: Reports.

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edw. Sayer Esq;) for D. Browne : J. Walthoe : B. Lintot : R. Gosling : W. Mears : L. Ward. : W. Innys : J. Osborn : T. Woodward : F. Clay : L. Wotton : K. Williamson and A. Ward.,

Date of Publication: M. DCC. XXVII. [1727]

Physical Description: 13 pt. in 7 v. ; 23 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Each part has sep. paging, register & t.p. (beginning "The first [-twelfth] part of the Reports ... "; "The thirteenth part, or certain select cases in law ... "); general t.p. in v. 1 only. -- Imprints vary slightly (see ESTC) -- Parts 12,13 are "The third edition corrected, with the addition of references."; Prefaces (pts.1-11) in Latin & English in parallel columns. "To the reader" (pt. 13) subscribed "J.G."--In pt. 12, "I have perused this treatise ... and ... conceive ... that the printing ... will be for the good of the nation ... [subscribed] The second of February 1655. Edw. Bulstrod."--"An account of the authors referred to in these reports": pt. 1, A6v-A8v. -- "A general table to the first eleven books of The reports of ... Sir Edward Coke ... with two alphabetical catalogues, one of the principal cases; the other of all the general titles ..." bd. at end of pt. 11.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 895-901 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Coke, Edward,; Bulstrode, Edward,; G., J.; Nutt, Edward,; Nutt, Richard,; Gosling, Robert,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 895 1727; Book 896 1727; Book 897 1727; Book 898 1727; Book 899 1727; Book 900 1727; Book 901 1717

Readings upon the statute law, alphabetically digested : wherein the most obscure and difficult points are clear'd up and illustrated by resolutions and adjudg'd cases, taken from the best authorities extant

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Author: Gentleman of the Middle Temple.

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII-MDCCXXV [1723-1725]

Call Number: Book 890 1723; Book 891 1723; Book 892 1724; Book 893 1724

Responsibility: by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple.

Author: Gentleman of the Middle Temple.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by D. Browne, T. Osborn, W. Mears, and F. Clay,

Date of Publication: MDCCXXIII-MDCCXXV [1723-1725]

Physical Description: 5 v. ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: Vol. 1: [2], 353, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 370 p.; v. 3: [2], 361, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 367, [1] p.; v. 5: 208, [136] p., [1] folded leaf of plates (a letterpress table.); Includes indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbbers890-893 as asssigned by Yeates.; LCHS lacks vol. 5.; ESTC

Subjects: Law - Great Britain - Digests.; Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Law.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Digests.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 890 1723; Book 891 1723; Book 892 1724; Book 893 1724

Reports of divers choice cases in law taken by those late and most judicious prothonotaries of the Common Pleas, Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough, Esquires

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Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.

Date of Publication: 1675.

Call Number: Book 489 1675

Alternate Title: Reports of Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough, Esquires; the first and second part; Reports of divers famous cases in law as they were argued, as well upon the bench by the reverend and learned judges Coke, Flemming, Hobard, Haughton, Warburton, Winch, Nichols, Foster, Walmesly, Yelverton, Montague, Doderidge, and diverse others, in their respective places, as also at the barr, by the then judicious serjeants and barristers of special note ...

Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Henry Twyford ... and Samuel Heyrick ...,

Date of Publication: 1675.

Physical Description: [8], 241, [15] p., [4], 341, [11] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. (engraving) ; 23 cm (4to)

Notes: Part 2 is "The second edition, carefully corrected and amended", and the imprint differs: London : Printed for Henry Twyford ..., 1675.; Includes permit for reprinting of both parts.; Signatures: piÂ² AÂ² B-2Kâ´, [A]Â² B-2Yâ´ (2Y4 blank).; Includes indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature on title page under struck Joseph Ross.; Book number 489 as assigned by Yeates.; Printed and hand-writted marginalia.; Handwritten notes on front flyleaf, back flyleaf and inside back cover.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson,; English short title catalogue,; Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc - England - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Brownlow, Richard,; Goldesborough, John,; Jasper Yeates,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 489 1675

Jurisdictions, or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseys, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents of essoyns, imparlance, view, of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance, of divers other things very profitable for all students of inns of court and chancery, and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the said courts : with the return and forms of several original and judicial writs now in use, relating to writs of error, writs of false judgment, and other proceedings of frequent use in the courts at Westminster

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Author: Kitchin, John.

Edition: The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.

Date of Publication: 1675.

Call Number: Book 437 1675

Alternate Title: Jurisdictions; Lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, Court of Marshalseyes, Court of Pypowder, and ancient demesn; Brevia selecta, or, Choice writs

Responsibility: written by the methodically learned John Kitchin ... ; to which is also added, Brevia selecta ... by Richard Antrobus and Thomas Impey ...

Author: Kitchin, John.

Uniform Title: Court leete et court baron.

Edition: The fifth edition corrected and enlarged, with two tables.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Hen. Twyford ... and Sam. Herrick ...,

Date of Publication: 1675.

Physical Description: [4], 581, [23], 122, [6] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)

Notes: "The return of writs newly corrected": pages 514-581.; Signatures: AÂ² B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´, chiÂ² Â²A-Hâ¸.; Leaf 2Q4 is blank.; Includes index.; LC copy imperfect: blank leaf 2Q4 wanting.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page adjacent to struck signature of former owner.; Book number 437 as assinged by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: England and Wales. - Marshalsea Court.; Courts baron and courts leet - Early works to 1800.; Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Writs - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Courts baron and courts leet.; Pleading.; Real property.; Writs.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Impey, Thomas.; Antrobus, Richard.; Kitchin, John.; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 437 1675

March's actions for slander, and arbitrements. : The first, being a collection, under certain grounds and heads, of what words are actionable in the law, and what not: where an action de scandalis magnatum will lie: and of the nature of a libel. The other, a discourse, shewing what arbitrements are good in law, and what not: together with directions and presidents of conditions to perform awards, indentures of submission to awards, with covenants to perform the same; arbitrements of lands which the parties covenant to perform, or of debt, &c. upon submission by bond, and variety of pleadings therein. As also, certain quaeries, or doubtful cases, under proper titles, with the books cited pro & contra; very useful for all students in the law

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Author: March, John,

Edition: And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: By W.B.

Date of Publication: 1674.

Call Number: Book 440 1648

Alternate Title: Actions for slander, and arbitrements

Responsibility: First written by Jo. March of Grayes-Inn, barrister, in the year, 1648.

Author: March, John,

Edition: And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: By W.B.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Elizabeth Walbanck, at Grayes-Inn Gate in Grayes-Inn Lane,

Date of Publication: 1674.

Physical Description: [8], 219, p. 218, 223-320, 401-476, [18] p. ; (8vo)

Notes: Text is continuous despite pagination.; With three indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial law library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 440 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Libel and slander - England - Early works to 1800.; Arbitration and award - England - Early works to 1800.; Arbitration and award.; Libel and slander.; England.; Early works.; Half-leather linen (Binding)

Additional Author: W. B.,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 440 1648

Archive

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Conestoga River Correspondence Deeds Drowning Earl Twp. England Estate settlement Finding aids German Reformed Church of New Holland Haupt Elementary School Hutchings Printing House King Street

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Description: The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.

Date Range: 1691-1963

Year Range From: 1691

Year Range To: 1963

Date of Accumulation: 1691-1963

Creator: Diffenderffer family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Brubaker, John; Brubaker, Margaret; Brubaker, Philip; Davis, Sarah; Diffenderfer, David; Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk; Diffenderfer, John; Diffenderffer, Christina; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, David, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderffer, John, Jr.; Diffenderffer, John, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein; Diffenderffer, Michael; Freymyer, Jacob; Grim, Henry; Haupt, Charles Elvin; Hoch, Herman E.; Holl, Wendel; Hubley, Bernard; Kennerly, John; Kinzer, John; Kinzer, Magdalena; Koch, Mary; Koch, Melchior; Law, James D.; Markley, Henry; McCaskey, Donald G.; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; Nevin, Blanche; Painter, John; Penn, William; Rodman, John H.; Shirk, Henry; Smith, Oliver; Smith, William Evans; Sneider, Christian; Stone, David; Stone, George; Stone, Leonard; Stone, Mary; Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer; Thomson, Bill "Tommy"; Winter, John; Young, Matthias

Other Creators: Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009; Diffenderffer, David

Subjects: Deeds; Letters; Real property

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Conestoga River; Correspondence; Deeds; Drowning; Earl Twp.; England; Estate settlement; Finding aids; German Reformed Church of New Holland; Haupt Elementary School; Hutchings Printing House; King Street; Lancaster; Land drafts; Lemon Street School; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mortgages; New Design, Earl Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Programs; Real estate; Real property surveys; Reigart's Landing; Susquehanna River; Texas; Texas Frontier Forces; Windsor Forge

Extent: 1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0410

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.; Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level--please use photocopies or transcriptions for those items. Other original documents may be used by researchers--contact Research@LancasterHistory.org prior to visit or request at Reference Desk.

Copyright: Collection items may be photographed. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at Research@LancasterHistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Persons wishing to publish any material from this collection must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2006.MG0410_NOV

Other Numbers: MG-410

Classification: MG0410

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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A compendious and accurate treatise of fines upon writs of covenant : and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post, with ample and copious instructions on how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same, in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.

Date of Publication: 1725.

Call Number: Book 885 1725

Alternate Title: Compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.

Place of Publication: [London], in the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer) for D. Browne,

Date of Publication: 1725.

Physical Description: [v], 335, [28], 30 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Notes: English and Latin.; Earlier edition (London, 1678) has title: A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.; "The epistle dedicatory" signed: William Brown.; Signatures: A-Z4, Aa-Bb4, a-b4.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 885 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Fines and recoveries - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Fines and recoveries.; Forms (Law); Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 885 1725

Praxis utriusque banci. The antient and modern practice of the two superior courts at Westminster, viz. The Kings Bench, and Common Pleas. Together with the rules and orders of the said courts. To which is added, the practice of the Sheriffs Court, London. Containing divers antient customs and immunities of that city: not hitherto published in print. As also Norma curiarum inferiorum: or A rule to keep inferior courts within their just bounds

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Date of Publication: 1674.

Call Number: Book 442 1674

Alternate Title: Antient and modern practice of the two superior courts at Westminster; Ancient and modern practice of the two superior courts at Westminster; Course of the proceedings observed in the Court of Common-Pleas; Norma curiarum inferiorum; Course and practice of the Sheriffs Court in the City of London

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: printed for J. Place, and T. Bassett, at Furnivals-Inn-Gate in Holbourn, and at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street,

Date of Publication: 1674.

Physical Description: [22], 63, [1], 192, 32 p. ; 8vo.

Notes: In 3 parts. Part 2, "The course of the proceedings observed in the Court of Common-Pleas" (caption title) begins new pagination on 2A1. Part 3, "Norma curiarum inferiorum" (mostly in Latin) has separate title page, dated 1673, separate pagination and register. It may have been published separately in 1673 (Wing N1238A).; Part 2 includes "The course and practice of the Sheriffs Court in the City of London" (caption title), p. 151-192.; Leaf a1 is cancelled; leaf a2 and a3 are signed a and a2.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page opposite that of former owenr Cas. Weitzel.; Book number 442 as assigned by Yeates.655; Wing (CD-Rom, 1996),; ESTC (RLIN),

Subjects: England and Wales. - Court of King's Bench.; England and Wales. - Court of Common Pleas.; City of London (England). - Corporation. - Sheriffs' Court.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,D1745-1817,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 442 1674

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