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A narrative of the proceedings of the religious society of the people called Quakers in Philadelphia against John Evans : to which is added, a report of the evidence delivered on the trial of the case of John Evans versus Ellis Yarnall and others : with an appendix

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Author
Evans, John,
Date of Publication
1811.
Call Number
Book 271a 1811
Responsibility
compiled under the direction of John Evans.
Author
Evans, John,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Sold by Thomas Dobson,
Date of Publication
1811.
Physical Description
vii, 238 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Affixed to title page: Circular signed by John Evans advertising the book and bearing Yeate's signature at top of page.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 371a as assigned by Yeates.
With Report of the case of the commonweealth, vs. Tench Coxe, Esq. on a motion for a Mandamus in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania...Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aitken, 1803.
With The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States...in the case of H. I. Huidekoper vs James Douglass...Philadalphia, Jane Aitken...no date.
With Report of the case of trespass & assault and battery wherein John Evans was pliantiff...Philadephhia, P. Byrne...1810.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Shaw & Shoemaker
Subjects
Evans, John, - 1741 or 1742-1814
Yarnall, Ellis, - 1757-1847
Evans, John, - 1741 or 1742-1814.
Yarnall, Ellis, - 1757-1847.
Society of Friends.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Three-quarters leather with marbled boards.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 271a 1811
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Reports of that learned and judicious clerk, J. Gouldsborough, Esq., sometimes one of the protonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, or his collection of choice cases and matters agitated in all the courts at Westminster in the latter yeares of the reign of Queen Elizabeth : with learned arguments at the barr and on the bench, and the grave resolutions and judgements thereupon of the chief justices Anderson and Popham, and the rest of the judges of those times : never before published, and now printed by his original copy, with short notes in the margent of the chief matters therein contained, with the yeare, terme, and number roll of many of the cases : and two exact tables, viz. a briefer, of the names of the severall cases, with the nature of the actions on which they are founded : and a larger, of all the remarkable things contained in the whole book

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Author
Goldesborough, John,
Date of Publication
anno Dom. 1653.
Call Number
Book 493 1653
Responsibility
by W.S. of the Inner Temple, Esq.
Author
Goldesborough, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W.W. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
Date of Publication
anno Dom. 1653.
Physical Description
[20], 192, [16] p. ; 22 cm (4to)
Notes
The printer is identified as W. Wilson. Cf. Wing.
Signatures: A⁴ (a)⁴ B² (B)-(C]⁴ D⁴ (E)-(2D)⁴ (A1 blank).
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 493 as assigned by Yeates.
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.),
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.
Courts - England - Early works to 1800.
Courts.
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
W. S.,
Randolph, Peyton,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 493 1653
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The life of the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, knight, lord chief justice of the Court of King's-bench; containing several arguments touching the rights and liberties of the people, delivered by his lordship, with great reason and remarkable courage, upon most important occasions, during the reigns of Their Majesties, King William the Third, and Queen Anne; taken from the report of the Lord Chief Justice Raymond, &c. And an abstract of Lord Chief Justice Holt's will, codicils, &c. Also points of law, resolved by his lordship, on evidence, at nisi prius. With a table of references to all his lordship's arguments and resolutions in the several volumes of reports. Never before published

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Author
Rayner, John
Date of Publication
1764.
Call Number
Book 1019 1764
Responsibility
By a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Author
Rayner, John
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, and sold by J. Worrall,
Date of Publication
1764.
Physical Description
xiii, 154, xi, [31] pages 21 cm
Notes
Introduction signed: J.R. [i.e. John Rayner].
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 1019 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Holt, John, - Sir, - 1642-1710.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1019 1764
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The Speeches at full length of Mr. Van Ness : Mr. Caines, the Attorney-general [Ambrose Spencer], Mr. Harrison, and General Hamilton, in the great cause of the people, against Harry Croswell, on an indictment for a libel on Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States

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Date of Publication
1804 (New York :
Call Number
Book 600 1804
Place of Publication
[Place of publication not identified]
Publisher
[publisher not identified], G. & R. Waite)
Date of Publication
1804 (New York :
Physical Description
78 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
"This was an issue of traverse upon an indictment, found at the general sessions of the peace for the county of Columbia [N.Y.] ... and removed into the Supreme Court by Certiorari, and tried before his honor the Chief Justice, at the Circuit in Columbia ..." [p. [3].
Concerns request for a new trial.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 600 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written eontents on flyleaf.
Bound with Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge...for killing Charles Austin,,,Boston: Russell and Cutler, 1807? - The trial of the boot & shoemakers of Philadelphia...Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806 - A faithfull report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Arcularius...New York: Bernard Dornin, 1807.-.A correct statement of the whole preliminary controversy between Tho. O. Selfridge and Benj. Austin...Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1807.
Subjects
Jefferson, Thomas, - 1743-1826.
Libel and slander - New York (State)
Libel and slander.
New York (State)
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Croswell, Harry,
Van Ness, William Peter,
Hamilton, Alexander,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
New York (State). Supreme Court.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 600 1804
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king's attorney-general against Thomas Paine : for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established : and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and parliament of this kingdom, and upon the king : tried by a special jury in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792, before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon

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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Call Number
Book 606 1793
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Uniform Title
Trial of Thomas Paine
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Sold by Martha Gurney, no. 128, Holborn-Hill,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description
196, [4] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Below imprint in parentheses: Price three shillings and sixpence; belox price in square brackets: entered at Stationers' Hall.
Signatures: B-G⁸ H⁴ I-K⁸ L⁴ M² N⁸ O⁴ Q⁸ R⁴ chi².
Pages [1]-[4] at end: publisher's advertisements ("The following trials are published from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes").
Erratum on page 196.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,
Summary
First edition of this work on the proceedings directed against the second part of Rights of man. The speeches of the attorney-general (Sir Archibald Macdonald) and of Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, are given in full.
Subjects
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809.
Trials (Seditious libel) - England - London.
Freedom of the press - Great Britain.
Seditious libel - Great Britain.
Freedom of the press.
Seditious libel.
Trials (Seditious libel)
England - London.
Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - England - 18th century.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Macdonald, Archibald,
Erskine, Thomas Erskine,
Gurney, Joseph,
Gurney,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 606 1793
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An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters

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Date of Publication
1772.
Call Number
Book 950 1772
Place of Publication
America
Publisher
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: pi⁶ B⁸ D-F⁴ [G]⁴ H-2M⁴.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Parliament - Elections.
Great Britain. - Parliament.
Dissenters, Religious - England - Early works to 1800.
Law - Great Britain.
Dissenters, Religious.
Elections.
Law.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Prospectuses - Great Britain - 18th century.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foster, Michael,
Mansfield, William Murray,
Blackstone, William,
Furneaux, Philip,
Priestley, Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of the law.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 950 1772
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Mnemonika: or, Chronological tablets; : exhibiting, in a methodical manner, the most remarkable occurrences, from the creation of the world to the present period. Comprehending brief accounts of inventions and discoveries in every department of science; biographical and historical sketches; post-offices of the United States; discoveries of countries; foundations of empires, &c. &c. : To which are added, several valuable tables

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Date of Publication
1812.
Call Number
Book 1036 1812
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
Published by John F. Watson, Philadelphia; and E.J. Coale, Baltimore. B.W. Sower, & Co. printers.,
Date of Publication
1812.
Physical Description
vi, [3], 20-346 p., [1] folded leaf ; 15 cm.
Notes
"The Tablet of memory, which forms the ground-work of this book, has been published for many years successively in London and Edinburgh ..."--Preface, p. vi.
Cf. Shaw & Shoemaker 26107, which records an edition with Baltimore imprint only.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-T⁹ U².
Error in paging: p. 339 misnumbered 393.
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
"Calendar for the nineteenth century. Published by Edward J. Coale, for Mnemonika."--Folded leaf.
Apparently from the personal library of Yeates.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 1036 not assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Mnemonics.
Chronology, Historical.
Leather bindings (Binding)
Illegible markings (Provenance)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Watson, John F.
Coale, Edward Johnson,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
B.W. Sower & Co.,
Additional Title
Tablet of memory.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
United States Maryland Baltimore.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1036 1812
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Appendix journal of the proceedings of the Senate ... sitting as the High Court of Impeachment : on the trial of an article of accusation and impeachment preferred by the House of Representatives against Edward Shippen ... and Jasper Yeates and Thomas Smith ... : begun on Monday the 7th of January, 1805, and concluded on ... the 28th of the same month

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Author
Shippen, Edward,
Date of Publication
[1805]
Call Number
Bookk 27 1805
Alternate Title
Journal of the proceedings of the Senate ... sitting as the High Court of Impeachment
Author
Shippen, Edward,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster, Pa.]
Publisher
Printed by M'Dowell & Greear,
Date of Publication
[1805]
Physical Description
24 pages
Notes
For their mishandling the case of Thomas Passmore's libel suit against Andrew Pettit and Andrew Bayard; includes documents and a summary of that case in addition to a report on the trial of accusation and impeachment.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Libarary
Book number 27 as assigned by Yeates.
Shaw & Shoemaker,
Full leather tooled binding with maroon spine label.
Subjects
Shippen, Edward, - 1729-1806
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817
Smith, Thomas, - 1745-1809
Passmore, Thomas
Trials (Libel) - Pennsylvania.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Smith, Thomas,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Lancaster.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 27 1805
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A narrative of the suppression by Col. Burr, of the history of the administration of John Adams, late President of the United States, written by John Wood ... To which is added a biography of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States; and of General Hamilton: with strictures on the conduct of John Adams, and on the character of General C.C. Pinckney. Extracted verbatim from the suppressed history

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Author
Cheetham, James,
Date of Publication
1802.
Call Number
Book 460 1802
Responsibility
By a citizen of New-York.
Author
Cheetham, James,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Printed by Denniston and Cheetham,
Date of Publication
1802.
Physical Description
72 pages 21 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 460 as asssigned by Yeates.
Bound with Features of Mr. Jay's treaty. to which is annexed a view of the commerce of the United States, as it stands at present, and as it is fixed by Mr. Jay's treaty. Philadelphia: printed by Land & Ustick, for Mathew Carey, 1795. -- Report of the Commmittee of the House of Representatives of the United States appointed to prepare and report articles of impeachment against William Blount, a Senator of the United States.... Printed by John Fenno, Place and date not specified -- Instructions to the envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary from the United States of Ameridca, to the French Republic,.... Philadelphia: Printed by W. Ross in Locust Street...[1798].--.Message from the President of the United States, accompanying sundry papers relative to the affairs of the United States with the French Republic. 18 January,1799, published by order of the House of Representatives -- Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State....Philadelphia: Printed by John Ward Fenno. 1700.--.Report of the Committee, to whom was referred, so much of the President's speech, as relates to a revision and amended of the judiciary system.1 May 1800, published by order of the House of Representatives
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface -- A narrative [of the suppression by Col. Burr of the history of the administration of John Adams] -- Biography of Mr. Jefferson -- Biography of Mr. Hamiltion -- Of General Washington -- Of Jonathan Dayton -- Of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney -- Quarrell at Trenton between Mr. Adams and his ministers.
Subjects
Wood, John, - 1775?-1822.
Adams, John, - 1735-1826.
Jefferson, Thomas, - 1743-1826.
Hamilton, Alexander, - 1757-1804.
Burr, Aaron, - 1756-1836.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 460 1802
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A compendious and accurate treatise of fines upon writs of covenant : and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post, with ample and copious instructions on how to draw, acknowledge, and levy the same, in all cases. Being a work performed with great exactness, and full of variety of clerkship. With an addition of several precedents, and many observations, rules and cases concerning the effect and operation of fines and recoveries

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Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.
Date of Publication
1725.
Call Number
Book 885 1725
Alternate Title
Compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post
Author
Brown, William,
Edition
The 6th ed., reviewed, corr., and in this impression very much inlarged.
Place of Publication
[London], in the Savoy
Publisher
Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer) for D. Browne,
Date of Publication
1725.
Physical Description
[v], 335, [28], 30 pages ; 20 cm (4to)
Notes
English and Latin.
Earlier edition (London, 1678) has title: A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.
"The epistle dedicatory" signed: William Brown.
Signatures: A-Z4, Aa-Bb4, a-b4.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 885 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Fines and recoveries - Great Britain.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain.
Fines and recoveries.
Forms (Law)
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled decorated leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 885 1725
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