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The complete parish-officer : containing I. The authority and duty of high constables ... II. Of church-wardens, how chosen, their business in repairing of churches ... III. Of overseers of the poor, and their office ... IV. Of surveyors of the highways, and scavengers ... V. Of watchmen, their original and power : together with the statutes relating to hackney coaches and chairs, watermen, & c

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Author
Jacob, Giles,
Edition
The fourteenth edition /
Date of Publication
1757.
Call Number
Book 444 1757
Responsibility
by Giles Jacob.
Author
Jacob, Giles,
Edition
The fourteenth edition /
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
In the Savoy, printed by Henry Lintot, for C. Hitch [and 15 others],
Date of Publication
1757.
Physical Description
227, [16], 8 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 444 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature,
Subjects
Parishes (Local government) - Great Britain.
Constables - Great Britain.
Local government - Great Britain - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Constables.
Local government.
Parishes (Local government)
Social conditions.
Great Britain - Social conditions - 18th century.
Great Britain.
Handbooks and manuals.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Durning-Lawrence, Edwin,
Lintot, Henry,
Bacon, Francis,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 444 1757
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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]² A-2X⁸ 2Y⁶ [$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
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Discourses concerning government

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Author
Sidney, Algernon,
Edition
The 3rd ed /
Date of Publication
1751.
Call Number
Yeates Book 88 1751
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Algernon Sidney ; to which are added, memoirs of his life, and an apology for himself, both now first published, and the latter from his original manuscript.
Author
Sidney, Algernon,
Edition
The 3rd ed /
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Millar,
Date of Publication
1751.
Physical Description
[4], lii, [6], [3]-495 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait
Notes
An answer to Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha.
"Memoirs of Algernon Sidney, Esq."--Page [i]-xxix gathered from various authors. Cf. p. [i].
"The apology of Algernon Sidney, in the day of his death"--Page [xxx]-lii.
Publisher's advertisement (1 p.) at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page with date 1760.
Book number 88 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature,
Subjects
Filmer, Robert, - Sir, - -1653.
Political science - Early works to 1800.
Monarchy - Early works to 1800.
Republics - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1660-1688.
Additional Author
Sidney, Algernon,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Memoirs of Algernon Sidney, Esq.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 88 1751
Websites
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Warrant registers (for Pennsylvania Counties)

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Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
Responsibility
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
Subjects
Pennsylvania. Department of Internal Affairs. Bureau of Land Records.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Berks County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - York County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County.
Land grants - Pennsylvania - Adams County.
Additional Author
Britton, William W.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 15, Sec. 1
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A collection of modern entries, or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer : viz. declarations, pleas in abatement and in bar, replications, rejoinders, &c., demurrers, issues, verdicts, judgments, forms of making up records of nisi prius, and entring of judgments, &c., in most actions. Many of them drawn or perused by Mr. Broderick, Carthew, Comyns, Darnel ... and other learned counsel. As also special assignments of errors, and writs and proceedings thereupon, both in the said courts and in Parliament. With the method of suing to and reversing outlawries by writ of error or otherwise. To which is added a collection of writs in most cases now in practice. With two tables, one of the names of the cases, and the other of the pleadings and writs

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Author
Lilly, John,
Edition
The 3rd ed.
Date of Publication
1758.
Call Number
Book 728 1758
Responsibility
by John Lilly.
Author
Lilly, John,
Edition
The 3rd ed.
Place of Publication
[London] in the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by H. Lintot for D. Browne ... [et al.],
Date of Publication
1758.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 676, [30] pages ; 36 cm
Notes
Error in paging: no. 361-362 omitted; no. 377-378 duplicated.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 728 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Pleading - Great Britain.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Civil procedure.
Forms (Law)
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Great Britain. Court of Exchequer.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 728 1758
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The grounds and rudiments of law and equity, alphabetically digested: containing a collection of rules or maxims, with the doctrine upon them, illustrated by various cases extracted from the books and records, to evince that these principles have been the foundation upon which the judges and sages of the law have built their solemn resolutions and determinations

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Edition
2d ed.
Date of Publication
1751.
Call Number
Book 695 1751
Responsibility
The whole designed to reduce the knowledge of the laws of England to a more regular science, and to form them into a proper digest for the service of the nobility, clergy, gentlemen in the commission of the peace, and private gentlemen, as well as the professors and students of the law. With three tables. First, of the rudiments and grounds. Second, of the new cases. Third, of principal matters.
Edition
2d ed.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
T. Osborne,
Date of Publication
1751.
Physical Description
16 preliminary leaves, 372, [16] pages 32 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book 695 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - Great Britain.
Equity - Great Britain.
Legal maxims - Great Britain.
Equity.
Law.
Legal maxims.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 695 1751
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A general abridgment of cases in equity, argued and adjudged in the High court of chancery, &c. [1667-1744] With several cases never before published, alphabetically digested under proper titles; with notes and references to the whole. And three tables, the first of the names of the cases, the second of the several titles, with their divisions and subdivisions; and the third, of the matter under general heads

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Middle Temple.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Chancery.
Place of Publication
[London] In the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer) for H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XXXII-LVI. [1732-1756]
Physical Description
2 volumes 33 cm
Notes
Attributed variously to Robert Foley, Sir Geoffrey Gilbert, Matthew Bacon, and Henry Pooley. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.
Subtitle of v. 2 varies.
Vol. 2 printed by H. Lintot, for T. Waller.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pages.
Book numbers 696 and 697 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Equity - England - Early works to 1800.
Equity - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - England - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foley, Robert.
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Bacon, Matthew,
Pooley, Henry.
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 697 1756
Book 696 1732
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The history and practice of the High Court of Chancery : in which is introduced, an account of the institution and various regulations of the said Court, shewing likewise the ancient and present practice thereof in an easy and familiar method

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Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Date of Publication
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Call Number
Book 516 1658
Alternate Title
Forum Romanum
Responsibility
by the late Lord Chief Baron Gilbert ; printed from a correct manuscript copy, free from the numerous errors and omissions of the Irish edition ; to which are added, many new references, and proper tables to the whole.
Author
Gilbert, Geoffrey,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Henry Lintot ..., for J. Worall ..., and W. Owen ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description
[12], 347, [49] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A⁴ a² B-2B⁸ 2C⁶.
"Lex Praetoria": pages 235-347.
Includes index.
"Law books lately published, wrote by Lord Chief Baron Gilbert": p. [2] in front.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 516 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain.
Equity pleading and procedure.
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
Book 516 1658
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The attorney's practice in the Court of King's Bench, or an introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that Court, as it now stands under the regulation of several late acts of Parliament, rules and determinations of the said Court : with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, settled or drawn by counsel, and a complete index to the whole

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22063
Author
Richardson, Robert,
Edition
The fourth edition,
Date of Publication
1759.
Call Number
Book 874 1759
Book 875 1759
Responsibility
by a Gentleman of the Inner Temple.
Author
Richardson, Robert,
Edition
The fourth edition,
Place of Publication
In the Savoy [London]
Publisher
Printed by Catherine Lintot, Law-Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for D. Browne, J. Shuckburgh, J. Worrall, and G. Hawkins ...,
Date of Publication
1759.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
"In two volumes".
Vol. 1: [8], 521, [69] p.; v. 2: [4], 537, [25] p.
Publisher's advertisments: v. 1, p. [2] in front; v. 2, p. [2] in front.
LC copy has inscriptions: Thomas G. Addison, 1802; H. Rideout.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page over struck name of previous owner.
Book numbers 874 and 875 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Criminal procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure.
Criminal procedure.
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 874 1759
Book 875 1759
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The attorney's practice in the Court of Common Pleas; or, An introduction to the knowledge of the practice of that court, as it now stands on the regulation of several late acts of Parliament, rules, and determinations of the said court; with variety of useful and curious precedents in English, drawn or perused by counsel; and a complete index to the whole

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Author
Richardson, Robert,
Edition
3d ed., with large additions.
Date of Publication
1758.
Call Number
Book 876 1758
Book 877 1758
Responsibility
By the author of The attorney's practice in the Court of King's Bench.
Author
Richardson, Robert,
Edition
3d ed., with large additions.
Place of Publication
[London]
Publisher
In the Savvy, H. Lintot,
Date of Publication
1758.
Physical Description
2 volumes 21 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 876 and 877 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Court of Common Pleas.
Civil procedure - Great Britain.
Civil procedure.
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
Book 876 1758
Book 877 1758
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