The reports of Sr. George Croke Knight; late, one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench; and formerly, one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said Courts, the time that he was judge in either of them: collected and written in French by himself; revised and published in English by Sir Harebotle Grimston Baronet
printed by R. Hodgkinsonne, and are to be sold by William Leak at the Crown in Fleetstreet, betwixt the two Temple gates, by Thomas Firby neer Grays-Inne Gate in Holborn, and at Lincolns-Inne Gate,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
[24], 669, [3] p. : ill. ; 2o.
Notes
With a final leaf entitled: Mentissa.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title above the struck signature of the preveious owner; previous owner's signature also strong from second flyleaf.
Book number 118 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwritten marginal ntoes and references of Thomas Leach, 1972.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
Binding: calf over boards, blind fillets, mid/late 17th century. Rebacked and spine title added, mid 19th century.
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
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 ...
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.),
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