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The entring clerk's vade mecum : being an exact collection of precedents for declarations and pleadings in most actions, especially such as are brought for, or against heirs, executors, or administrators, executrices, administratices, and their husbands, in personal actions : also upon bills of exchange, pollicies of assurance, &c., and such process and parts of pleading as relate thereunto : being very practicable and useful to all entring-clerks, and attornies in His Majesties Courts of Kings-Bench and Common Pleas, as also to the attornies and practicers of every inferieur court and county-judicature

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Date of Publication: 1695.

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

Responsibility: collected by William Brown, Gent.

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Nathaniel Ponder, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,

Date of Publication: 1695.

Physical Description: [8], 600, [64] p. 29 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [A]â´ B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´ 2R-2Uâ¸.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number1023 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed., 1994); ESTC

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

Additional Author: Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

The transactions of the High Court of Chancery, both by practice and president, with the fees thereunto belonging, and all speciall orders in extraordinary cases, which are to be found in the Registers office as they are quoated by tearmes, yeares & bookes

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Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Chancery.

Date of Publication: 1649.

Call Number: Book 235 1649

Responsibility: Collected by ... William Tothill ... and since reveiwed by Sir Ro. Holborne.

Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Chancery.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by T.W. for R. Best and I. Place,

Date of Publication: 1649.

Physical Description: [8], 192, 61 pages 15 cm

Notes: Signatures: A4, A-N8, a-d8 (last leaf blank).; "The proceedings of the High-Court of Chancerie": pages 1-56 (3d group]; "The fees of proceeding ... ": p. 57-61 at end.; Probably first issues.; Wing T1952.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature under that of previous owner.; Book number 235 as assigned by Yeates.; Bound with its Reports or causes in Chancery. London, 1650. Copy 3.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain.; Costs (Law) - Great Britain.; Costs (Law); Equity pleading and procedure.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; One-half leather with linen (Binding)

Additional Author: Tothill, William,; Holborne, Robert,; Yeates, Jasper,,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 235 1649

Brownlow LatinÃ¨ redivivus : a book of entries : of such declarations, informations, pleas in barr and abatement, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, bills of exception to verdicts, judgments, demurrers, and other parts of pleadings, (now in use) in personal and mixt actions : contained in the first and second parts of the declarations and pleadings of Richard Brownlow

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Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Alternate Title: Book of entries

Responsibility: (unskilfully turned into English, and) printed in the years 1653 and 1654 ; now published in Latin, their original language, with additions of authentick modern precedents, inserted under every title, and a copious table, after the method of Mr. Townsend.

Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns ... and are to be sold by S. Heyrick ... T. and G. Sawbridge ... and M. Gillyflower ...,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Physical Description: [6], 260, 361-506, [46] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² aÂ¹ B-2Kâ´ 2LÂ² 3A-3Sâ´ 3T-4GÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Signature of Witt. Cowper, Dec. 9.92. Pr 14s struck through.; Book number 63 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Wythe, George,; Pollock, Frederick,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Reports: or New cases : [King's Bench and Common Pleas, 1639-1642] with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation. And the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgments

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.

Date of Publication: MDCXLVIII, [1648]

Call Number: Book 506 1648

Responsibility: Collected by John March.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by M.F. for W. Lee, M. Walbanke, D. Pakeman, and G. Beadel,

Date of Publication: MDCXLVIII, [1648]

Physical Description: 1 preliminary leaf, 218, [20] pages ; 19 cm

Notes: Manuscript notes on margins.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 506 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather badly cracked (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label Binding)

Additional Author: March, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 506 1648

Cases in Parliament resolved and adjudged, upon petitions and writs of error

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Date of Publication: 1698.

Call Number: Book 738 1698

Responsibility: [1694-1698].

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: A. and J. Churchill,

Date of Publication: 1698.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 224, [2] pages 33 cm

Notes: Reported by Sir Bartholomew Shower.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page beside former owner E. Biddle.; Book number 738 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc - Early works to 1800 - Great Britain; Early works.; Early works to 1800.; Full blind-tolled leather.

Additional Author: Shower, Bartholomew,; Yeates, Jasper,; Biddle, E.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 738 1698

Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Exchequer, in the years 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, and 1660. And from thence continued to the 21st year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles II. [1669]

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.

Date of Publication: 1693.

Call Number: Book 555b 1693

Responsibility: The whole taken and collected by Sir Thomas Hardres, kt.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins, for Christopher Wilkinson,

Date of Publication: 1693.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 232, 301-512, [20] pages 32 cm

Notes: Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, aâ´, B-Zâ´, Aa-Ffâ´, Gâ´, Aaa-Zzzâ´, Aaaa-Ffffâ´.; "There is a chasm in all the copies of the first edition of Hardres of pp. 233-300 inclusive, and the catchword at the bottom of p. 232 would indicate that something was actually omitted."--Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.; Imperfect: 1st-3d, 6th prelim. leaves wanting; supplied in photostat facsimile.; Includes index.; Hand-written marginalia thoughout.; Partial bookplate on back of front cover.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 555b as assigned by Yeates.

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: Hardres, Thomas,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 555b 1693

The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained

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Author: West, William,

Date of Publication: 1641.

Call Number: Yeates Book 80 1641

Author: West, William,

Uniform Title: Second part of symboleography

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young.,

Date of Publication: 1641.

Physical Description: [2], 350, [8] leaves ; 22.5 cm. (4to)

Notes: With Latin mottoes and tail piece below title.; "Cum privilegio."--Foot of title page.; Dedicatory letter (in Latin) to Sir Edward Coke, dated 1594, signed: William West.; Collation: [par]Â² A-2Xâ¸ 2Yâ¶ [$4 signed].; Numerous errors in foliation: leaves 24, 35, 52, 62 numbered 21, 37, 51, 64; leaves 144, 163, 165, 216, 256, 259 numbered 146, 136, 146, 215, 255, 258; leaves 284, 286, 287, 288 numbered 286, 284, 293, 286; leaves 298, 299-302, 303-304, 336, 349 numbered 283, 281-284, 284-285, 320, 394.; In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.; Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.; Marginal section notations.; Includes index.; "The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.; Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.; Some handwritten notes in margins.; Wing (2nd ed.); Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.

Subjects: Legal instruments - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Conveyancing - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Conveyancing.; Equity pleading and procedure.; Forms (Law); Legal instruments.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Quarto format (Printing) - England - London - 1641.; Black letter types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.; Roman types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.; Tail-pieces (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.

Additional Author: Flesher, Miles,; Young, Robert,; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 80 1641

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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The second part of Modern reports : being a collection of several special cases most of them adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas, in the 26, 27 ... 30th years of the reign of King Charles II. ... To which are added, several select cases in the Courts of Chancery, Kings-Bench, and Exchequer in the said years

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Author: Colquitt, Anthony.

Date of Publication: 1698.

Call Number: Book 126 1698

Responsibility: Carefully collected by a learned hand.

Author: Colquitt, Anthony.

Uniform Title: Modern Reports.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins Esquires, for Charles Harper at the Flower de Luce over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet,

Date of Publication: 1698.

Physical Description: [10], 322, [22] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)

Notes: 500; Includes advertising for Charles Harper on the last leaf.; Includes index and marginal notes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signiture at top of title page.; Book number 126 as assigned by Yeates.; Handwritten marginal notes.; Information struck on title page and overleaf.; Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),; ESTC,

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Harper, Charles,; Evans, Herbert,; Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Chancery.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.; England and Wales. Court of Exchequer.; Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 126 1698

Style's practical register : begun in the reign of King Charles I, consisting of rules, orders, and the principal observations concerning the practice of the common law in the courts at Westminster, particularly the Kings Bench, as well in matters criminal as civil : carefully continued down to this time, alphabetically digested under several titles, with a table for the ready finding out of those titles

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Author: Style, William,

Edition: The third edition.

Date of Publication: 1694.

Call Number: Book 1009 1694

Alternate Title: Practical register

Author: Style, William,

Uniform Title: Regestum practicale

Edition: The third edition.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Tho. Dring, and the executors of S. Leigh, and are to be sold by Tho. Dring and Ch. Harper ...,

Date of Publication: 1694.

Physical Description: [20], 588 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Originally published in 1657 under title: Regestum practicale.; Signatures: Aâ¸ aÂ² B-2Oâ¸ 2Pâ¶.; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page under those of struck former owners..; Book number 1009 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: England and Wales. - Court of King's Bench.; Procedure (Law) - Great Britain.; Court rules - Great Britain.; Court rules.; Procedure (Law); Great Britain.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1009 1694

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