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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21608
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 587 1777
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Articles of Confederation
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
26 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeaates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwrittne Index precedes text.
Evans
Subjects
United States. - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Paper bindings (Binding)
Stabbing (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Catchwords (Printing)
Printers' devices (Publishing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Autographs (Provenance)
Early works.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1777
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A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law ; as also the law and practice , under the proper heads and titles: together with such learning as explains the history and antiquity of the law, and our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time. Adapted to the use of barristers, students and practicers of the law, etc

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20992
Author
Jacob, Giles,
Edition
10th ed. /
Date of Publication
MDCC:XXIII (1778)
Call Number
Book 192 1778
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Giles Jacob.
Author
Jacob, Giles,
Edition
10th ed. /
Place of Publication
.Dublin
Publisher
Printed for James Williams, at No. 5, in Skinner-Row,
Date of Publication
MDCC:XXIII (1778)
Physical Description
1 volume (no pagination) ; 40 cm.
Notes
Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Loose inside back cover: an advertisement of J. E. Barr & Co, 27East King Street, Lancaster, Pa. for the Sunday School Department,(60 x 45 cm.) undated.
Book number 192 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain - Dictionaries.
Law.
Great Britain.
Dictionaries.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Ruffhead, Owen
Yeates, Jasper,
Morgan, J.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 192 1778
Websites
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The acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals. And an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered, or repealed. Together with the royal, proprietary, city, and borough charters; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province

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Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
1775.
Call Number
Book 586 1775
  1 website  
Responsibility
Published by order of Assembly.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers,
Date of Publication
1775.
Physical Description
xxi, 536, 22, [12], 3 pages 36 cm
Notes
Edited by J. Galloway. Cf. Evans 14364.
"Appendix" (22 p. (3d group)) has special t.p., with same imprint.
LCHS copy imperfect: "Addendum" (3 p. at end) wanting.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonnial Law Library.
On front flyleaf: Joseph Pennock his Book; Joseph Pennock; Jesse Pennocks Book and presented to Thomas Pennock.
Book number 586 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law.
Ownership.
Pennsylvania.
Legislation.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Covers loose (Binding)
Additional Author
Galloway, Joseph,
Pennock, Joseph,
Pennock, Jesse,
Pennock, Thomas,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 586 1775
Websites
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A system of pleading : including a translation of the Doctrina Placitandi, or, The art and science of pleading : originally written by Samson Euer, Serjeant at law, and now first translated from the obsolete Norman French : shewing where, in what cases, and by what persons, pleas, as well personal, or mixed, may be properly pleaded, with references to, and extracts from, the most approved writers on the subject, carefully digested under their proper titles, and brought into one collective point of view : together with an introduction, explaining the different terms made use of in the proceedings of each respective court : also a preface and table

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21719
Author
Eure, Samson,
Date of Publication
1771.
Call Number
Book 649 1771
Alternate Title
Art and science of pleading
Doctrina Placitandi
Responsibility
by a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Author
Eure, Samson,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall,
Date of Publication
1771.
Physical Description
xxii, [14], vii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 649 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 649 1771
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Anno regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo tertio. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1772 ... And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-sixth day of February, 1773

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21545
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Call Number
Book 583 1773
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1773 Feb.)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the market.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
Physical Description
pages [2], 293-355, [1] ; 34 cm
Notes
Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1770 (Evans 11800).
Pennsylvania arms on title page.
Eighteen pages of hand-written notes at end of volume.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 583 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
Bound with Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twentieth Day of February 1768, Philadelphia, D. Hall and W. Sellers,1768; - Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjourments to the highteenth# Day of February 1769, Philadelphia: D. Hall, and W. Sellers, 1769 - Anno Regni Georgii II Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-fourthDay of February, 1770, Philadelphhia, D. Hall and W Sellers, 1770 - Anno Regni Gerogii III Regis...And from thence continured by Adjournments to the Twenty-first Day of March 1772, Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1772.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Three-quarters leather on printed boards(Binding)
Title stamped on spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 583 1773
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A treatise of common recoveries, their nature and use : to which is added the case of Page and Hayward more fully reported than in any other book extant : and also a case between the late Earl of Derby and the coheirs of his elder brother : with precedents for amending fines and recovers : and a complete table to the whole

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Author
Pigott, Nathaniel,
Edition
2nd ed. /
Date of Publication
1770.
Call Number
Book 677 1770
Alternate Title
Page v. Hayward
Common recoveries
Responsibility
by N. Pigott.
Author
Pigott, Nathaniel,
Edition
2nd ed. /
Place of Publication
London : For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, and P. Uriel
Publisher
Printed by his Majesty's Law-Printers ;
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
[2], 232 (i.e. 236), [16] pages ; 21 cm (4to)
Notes
Pagination irregular following starred pagination of earlier edition, inset in the margin of the text.
Edited by George Wilson.
"Books lately published:" 2nd preliminary leaf.
Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, B-2I⁴, 2K².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signiature at top of title page.
Book number 677 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Fines and recoveries - Great Britain.
Fines and recoveries.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Derby, James Stanley,
Wilson, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 677 1770
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The history of the life of King Henry the Second, and of the age in which he lived, in five books: to which is prefixed a history of the revolutions of England from the death of Edward the Confessor to the birth of Henry the Second: by George Lord Lyttelton

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Author
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,
Edition
A new edition, corrected.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 472 1777
Book 473 1777
Book 474 1777
Book 475 1777
Book 477 1777
Book 476 1777
Author
Lyttelton, George Lyttelton,
Uniform Title
History of the life of King Henry the Second.
Edition
A new edition, corrected.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Dodsley,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
4 volumes ; (8vo)
Notes
Each volume has a half-title: 'Lord Lyttelton's history of King Henry II. .'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 472-477 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Henry - II, - King of England, - 1133-1189.
Great Britain - History - To 1485.
Great Britain.
History.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 472 1777
Book 473 1777
Book 474 1777
Book 475 1777
Book 477 1777
Book 476 1777
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De pace Regis et regni : viz. a treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and the kingdome, as treasons, homicides, and felonies, menaces, assaults, batteries, ryots, routs, vnlawfull assemblies, forcible entries, forgeries, periuries, maintenance, deceit, extortion, oppression : and how many and what sorts of them there be, and by whom, and what meanes the said offences, and the offendors therein are to be restrained, repressed, or punished

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21812
Author
Pulton, Ferdinando,
Date of Publication
an. Dom. 1623.
Call Number
762 1623
Responsibility
collected out of the reports of the common laws of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painefull workes of the reuerend iudges, Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes by Ferdinando Pulton ...
Author
Pulton, Ferdinando,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Companie of Stationers,
Date of Publication
an. Dom. 1623.
Physical Description
[6], 324 [i.e. 243], [17] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Printed by Adam Islip. Cf. STC.
Signatures: A-2V⁶ 2X⁸.
The first leaf is blank.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 762 as assigned by Yeates.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Subjects
Criminal law - Great Britain.
Criminal law.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
762 1623
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British spy map of Southeastern Pennsylvania from the Susquehanna to the Delaware River

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15169
Date of Publication
c.1776.
Call Number
974.8 SEPA 500
Place of Publication
[s.l.]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
c.1776.
Physical Description
1 map : photocopy ; 49 x 96 cm.
Notes
Clinton Map #250 University of Michigan.
"General Sir William Howe may have used this map on his march from the Chesapeake Bay to Philadelphia in September 1777".
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution - 1775-1783.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.8 SEPA 500
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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
  1 website  
Responsibility
by the author of Common sense.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-street, six doors above Arch-street. Where also may be had no. I. and II.,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Physical Description
[25]-56 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Signed: Common sense; dated: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777.
On the verso of the t.p. is a proclamatin by General Washington concerning deserters, dated April 6, 1777; also a general order, dated April 8, 1777.
Summary
One of Thomas Paine's 16 "American Crisis " patriotic essays written during the American Revolution between 1776 and 1783.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution - Contemporary opinion.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
Websites
Less detail

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