Inventories of estates show name of decedent and township, date filed, itemized list of possessions and assets, appraised valuation, and signatures and affidavit of appraisers and administrators. Administrators' Accounts and Administrators' Bonds are also filed with this collection prior to 1776. Other estate related papers sometimes included before 1776 were: Orphans' Court papers, Renunciations, and Vendue Lists. Inventories were sometimes filed with the wills and may be at the courthouse. Appraisers often included widow's allotments in the inventories. Any additional information such as occupation, cause of death, or the listing of enslaved persons or indentured servants are noted in the database.
Prior to 1752, documents between the months of January and March were subject to double dating, as a result of the conflict between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Therefore, documents filed between 1 January and 25 March have two years listed; one from the old Julian calendar and one from the new Gregorian calendar.
System of Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically within each letter.
The English works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt. publish'd in his life-time : together with his posthumous works, relating to the laws and antiquities of England, first publish'd by the present Lord Bishop of Lincoln in the year 1695 : together with the life of the author
now revised by His Lordship ; to which are added, two more treatises of Sir Henry Spelman, never before printed, one, of the admiral-jurisdiction and the officers thereof, the other of antient deeds and charters ; with a compleat index to the whole.
A general abridgment of the common law, alphabetically digested under proper titles: with notes and references to the whole. With three tables. The first, of the several titles. The second, of the names of the cases. And the third, of the matter under general heads
Cursus cancellariae, or, The course of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery : wherein the authority, jurisdiction, and modern practice of that court are methodically and distinctly treated of, from the bill filed, and process thereupon, to the final sentence and decree : as also of reversing decrees, by bills of review, and appeals to the House of Lords, and the method of proceedings in the Petty-Bag-Office &c., with a variety of useful precedents throughout, and a compleat table to the whole
Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth, B. Lintot, J. Tonson, R. Gosling, W. & J. Innys, J. Osborn & T. Longman, R. Robinson, T. Woodward, F. Clay, B. Motte, A. Ward, T. Wotton, & executorum Richardi Sare,
Date of Publication
MDCCXXVI. [1726]
Physical Description
3 v. in 6 pts. : ill., port. ; 40 cm (fol.)
Notes
Each vol. in 2 pts.
Vol. 2 imprint statement begins: Londini : Typis S. Palmer, impensis J. Walthoe ...
Vol. 3 imprint statement begins: London : Printed by T. Wood for J. Walthoe ...
Tail-pieces.
Part of vol. 1 printed in red and black.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 720 as assigned by Yeates.
Book plate of Bowater Vernon of Hanbury Hall in the Counder of Worester. on back of title pages of vol. 1.
ESTC,
Contents
Vol. 1. De anno civili veteris ecclesiae, seu Reipublicae Judaicae, dissertatio. De jure naturali & gentium juxta disciplinam Ebraeorum. De synedriis & praefecturis juridicis veterum ebraeorum -- v. 2. De successionibus in bona defunctorum & de successionibus in pontificatum Ebraeorum. De diis Syris. Eutychii ecclesiae suae origines. Uxor Ebraica. Analecta Anglo-Britannica. Janus Anglorum. Dissertatio ad Fletam. Judicium de decem scriptoribus Anglicanis. Mare clausum. Vindiciae de scriptione maris clausi. Marmora Arundelliana. Notae in eadmerum. Epistolae & poemata -- v. 3. England's Epinomis. Original of duels. Titles of honour. History of tythes, with the answers to Sempill, Tilseley, and a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham. Of the passage touching the number 666. Of Calvin's judgment on the Revelations. Of the birth-day of our Savior. Of his purpose and end in writing the History of tythes. Of the Jews sometimes living in England. Discourse of the office of Lord Chancellor. Privilege of the baronage of England. Judicature in Parliament. Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments. Letter to Mr. August. Vincent, rouge-croix, concerning his discovery of errors. Arguments concerning the baronies of Grey and Ruthen. Notes upon Drayton's Polyolbion, Fortescue de laudibus, etc. and Hengham's summa, &c. Speeches in the House of Lords and Commons. Table talk.
Placita coronae, or, Pleas of the crown, in matters criminal and civil : containing a large collection of modern precedents, viz. appeals, convictions, certiorari's and pleadings thereto, indictments, informations, traverses, pleadings, &c., writs of mandamus, -- quo warranto, -- restitution, -- habeas corpus, &c., and returns thereof : with great variety of precedents, under many other hands, relating to the crown law
Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. : At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the ninth day of October, Anno Dom. 1722 ... And from thence continued by several prorogations to the twenty seventh day of June, 1727. Being the sixth session of this present Parliament
Printed by John Baskett ... and Tho. Norris, assignee to George Hills.,
Date of Publication
1727-1728.
Physical Description
42, 666, [2] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Each act constitutes a chapter; each chapter has a caption title, and most have a general t.p.
LHS copy imperfect: all chapters except 5 (second occurrence), 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, and 21 wanting. Transcription of title from general t.p. prefixed to chapter 1.
The general t.p. for the second group of paging has the phrase: At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty third day of January, Anno Dom. 1727 ... being the first session of this present Parliament.
