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A general history of England : from the invasion of the Romans under Julius C©Œsar, to the late revolution in MDCLXXXVIII. Including the histories of neighbouring people and states, so far as they are connected with that of England. To which are added, five dissertations ; I. Upon the dark and faboulous ages of the British history ... II. Upon the great revolution of the English governement under Egbert, about the year 828, and its concurrent causes ... III. Upon the indipendency of the Crown of Scotland. IV. Concerning the Norman engraftments upon the English laws and governement. V. Concerning the alienation and accession of property, with the great effects they have had upon our Constitution since the reign of Henry VIII

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Author
Guthrie, William,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Call Number
Book 7, 1751
Book 6, 1747
Book 5, 1744
Responsibility
by William Guthrie ...
Author
Guthrie, William,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street.,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Physical Description
3 volumes : maps, portraits ; folio.
Notes
Pagination: v.1: [2], iv, 962, [30] p., [5], 10 leaves of plates; v.2: [4], 1130, [22] p., 11 leaves of plates; v.3: [2], 1396, [12] p., 5 leaves of plates.
Title pages printed in red and black.
Printed marginalia.
Text printed in double columns.
V. 1 has imprint: 'London: printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLIV.'; v.2 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLVII.'; v.3 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Mitre and Crown, opposite Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC LI.'
V.2 has title: A general history of England, beginning with the reign of Edward the Second, and ending with that of Henry the Eighth.
V.3 has title: A general history of England, from Edward the Sixth to the restoration of King Charles the Second. With a summary of public affairs from the restoration to the time of the revolution, digested in annals.
Published in parts.
'Proposals for printing the third and last volume' was issued on 7 November 1747.
Jasper Yeate's Colonial Law Library.
Book numbers 5, 6, and 7 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Includes index at the end of each volume.
ESTC,
Full leather binding gold tooled around perimeters and figured gold tooling on edges of covers; spines strengthened by leather strips.
Subjects
Great Britain - History.
Great Britain.
History.
Additional Author
Browne, Daniel,
Waller, T.,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 7, 1751
Book 6, 1747
Book 5, 1744
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The history of England : during the reigns of K. William, Q. Anne, and K. George I

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Author
Ralph, James,
Date of Publication
1744-46.
Call Number
Book 9 1744
Book 8 1744
Responsibility
by a lover of truth and liberty.
Author
Ralph, James,
Place of Publication
London : For F. Cogan, and T. Waller
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Browne ;
Date of Publication
1744-46.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; (fol.)
Notes
"Lover of truth and liberty" = James Ralph.--ESTC.
T.p.s in red and black.
Vol.2 t.p. reads : " ... reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George the first ... London : Printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, 1746."
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Books numbers 8 and 9 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
ESTC,
Subjects
Great Britain - History - 1689-1714.
Great Britain.
History.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 9 1744
Book 8 1744
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Codex juris ecclesiatici anglicani : or, the statutes, constitutions, canons, rubricks and atricles, of the Church of England, methodically digested under their proper heads. With a commentary, historical and juridical. Before it, is an introductory discourse, concerning the present state of the power, discipline and laws, of the Church of England: and after it, an Appendix of instruments, ancient and modern

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Corporate Author
Church of England.
Edition
2d ed., rev. and improved with large additions, by the author.
Date of Publication
M DCC LXI.
Call Number
Book 4, 1751
Book 3, 1751
Alternate Title
Statutes, constitutions, canons, rubricks and articles, of the Church of England
Responsibility
by Edmund Gibson, D. D.
Corporate Author
Church of England.
Edition
2d ed., rev. and improved with large additions, by the author.
Place of Publication
Oxford
Publisher
: Clarendon Press
Date of Publication
M DCC LXI.
Physical Description
2 volumes ([4], xxx, [26], 746; [2], 747-1575, [99] pages) ; folio
Notes
"Supplement, containing certain acts of Parliament relative to ecclesiastical matters; which have either been omitted in their Places by the Author, or been enacted since he prepared the present Edition for the Press": pages [1237]-1321.
Printed marginalia.
Originally published 1713.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book numbers 3 and 4 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Gibson's Codex on the spine.
Full leather binding with gold tooling on edges; some repairs to spine.
Subjects
Church of England - Government.
Church of England.
Ecclesiastical law - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Ecclesiastical law.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Additional Author
Gibson, Edmund,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Oxford University Press,
Place
England Oxford.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 4, 1751
Book 3, 1751
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A select collection of remarkable trials : in one volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, and the Lady Mary Mordaunt, for a divorce. ... Christopher Layer, Esq. ; for high treason

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Date of Publication
1744.
Call Number
Book 496 1744
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Select trials
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Anderson,
Date of Publication
1744.
Physical Description
524 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
A re-issue, with a cancel titlepage, of volume 8 of 'State trials and proceedings upon high treason'.
The imprint is probably false.
Originally published as 'A compleat collection of state-tryals'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 596 as assigned by Yeates.
Summary
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion.
Subjects
Trials - Great Britain.
Trials (Divorce) - Great Britain.
Trials (Treason) - Great Britain.
Trials (Perjury) - Great Britain.
Trials (Piracy) - Great Britain.
Trials (Murder) - Great Britain.
Trials.
Trials (Divorce)
Trials (Murder)
Trials (Perjury)
Trials (Piracy)
Trials (Treason)
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Guilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 496 1744
Websites
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Proceedings on the impeachment of William Blount : a senator of the United States from the state of Tennessee, for high crimes and misdemeanors

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Author
Blount, William,
Date of Publication
1799.
Call Number
Book 598 1799
Author
Blount, William,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Joseph Gales,
Date of Publication
1799.
Physical Description
102, [2] p. (final leaf blank) ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Blount was charged with conspiring to aid Great Britain in wresting the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain.
Record of the proceedings is found in Journal of the Senate of the United States, in cases of impeachments ... Washington City : Printed by William Duane & Son, 1805: p. [3]-31. This journal forms part of Journal of the Senate ... Second Session of the Eighth Congress ... Washington City : Printed by William Duane & Son, 1804.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-N⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 598 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Sabin
Howes
Subjects
Blount, William, - 1749-1800.
Diplomatic relations.
United States - Foreign relations - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
United States - Foreign relations - 1797-1801 - Early works to 1800.
Great Britain.
United States.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine title (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 598 1799
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A faithful report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Arcularius and William Coleman ... being an action for a libel held ... before his Hon. Judge Livingston on the third of January, 1807

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Author
Arcularius, Philip I.
Date of Publication
1807.
Call Number
Book 600 1807a
Responsibility
Taken by Mr. Sampson in short-hand ...
Author
Arcularius, Philip I.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
B. Dornin,
Date of Publication
1807.
Physical Description
62 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 600 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written contents on flyleaf.
Bound with The speeches at full length of Mr. Van Ness, Mr. Caines...and General Hamilton...against Harry Croswell...New York, G & R. Waite, 1804; Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge...for killing Charles Austin...Boston: Russell and Cutler, 1807? - The trrial of the boot & shoemakers of Philadelphia...Philadelphia: B. Graves, 1806.- A correct statement of the whole preliminary controversy between Tho. O. Selfridge and Benj. Austin...Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, 1807.
Shaw
Subjects
Arcularius, Philip I. - Trials, litigation, etc.
Coleman, William, - 1766-1829 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Coleman, William, - 1766-1829.
Trials (Libel) - Great Britain.
Trials (Libel)
Great Britain.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Coleman, William,
Sampson, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
New York (State). Supreme Court.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 600 1807a
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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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The Trial of Mr. Thomas Hardy, for high treason ; containing the whole proceedings, from the opening of the special commission, the judge's charge to the grand jury, lists of the witnesses, jurors, and the bills of indictment ... together with the arguments of counsel on the part of the Crown, and in defence of the prisoner

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Author
Hardy, Thomas,
Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Book 607 1794
Responsibility
Accurately taken in short-hand, by Manoah Sibly ...
Author
Hardy, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by P. Byrne ...,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[9]-286 pages ; octavo
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 607 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Treason - Great Britain.
Politics and government
Treason.
Great Britain - Politics and government - 1789-1840.
Great Britain.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Sibly, Manoah,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 607 1794
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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the King's Attorney General against John Stockdale, for a libel on the House of Commons : tried in the Court of King's-Bench Westminister, on Wednesday, the ninth of December 1789 : before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, Chief Justice of England

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Author
Stockdale, John,
Date of Publication
1790.
Call Number
Book 608 1790
Responsibility
taken in short hand by Joseph Gurney ; to which is subjoined, an Argument in support of the rights of juries.
Author
Stockdale, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Stockdale ...,
Date of Publication
1790.
Physical Description
xi, [1], 228, [16] p. ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: A⁶ B-P⁸ Q².
"Argument in support of the rights of juries" by the Hon. T. Erskine: p. [121]-228.
Publisher's advertisements: [16] p. at end.
LC copy wanting the [16] p. of advertisements called for in ESTC.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
LCHS copy has bound between pages121 and 122: The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury, on Friday, August the Sixth, 1784...London: H. Goldney, 1874.
With: Briton. Four letters on the subject of Mr. Stockdale's trial for a supposed libel on the House of Commons ... London : Printed for John Stockdale ..., 1790. Bound together subsequent to publication?
ESTC (RLIN)
Subjects
Stockdale, John, - 1749?-1814
Logan, John, - 1748-1788.
Logan, John, - 1748-1786.
Hastings, Warren, - 1732-1818.
Stockdale, John, - 1749?-1814.
Trials (Libel) - Great Britain.
Jury - Great Britain.
Jury.
Trials (Libel)
Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain - 18th century.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Gurney, Joseph,
Erskine, Thomas Erskine,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 608 1790
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An enquiry into the use and practice of juries among the Greeks and Romans : from whence the origin of the English jury may probably be deduced : in three parts

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Author
Pettingal, John,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Call Number
Book 619 1769
Responsibility
by John Pettingal ...
Author
Pettingal, John,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the author, by W. and W. Strahan, and sold by T. Cadell (successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description
xv, [1], 200 p. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Notes
Signatures: a-b⁴ B-2C⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 619 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references.
ESTC
Subjects
Jury (Roman law)
Jury - Greece.
Jury - Great Britain.
Jury.
Great Britain.
Greece.
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 619 1769
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