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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
Less detail

The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined ; and the charges against John Adams refuted : addressed to the citizens of America in general ; and particularly to the electors of the president

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Author
Smith, William Loughton,
Date of Publication
October 1796.
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1796
Alternate Title
Thacher's tracts
Author
Smith, William Loughton,
Place of Publication
United States [Philadelphia]
Publisher
[Printed by John Fenno],
Date of Publication
October 1796.
Physical Description
64 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Attributed to William Smith by Evans. "In their preparation Mr. Smith is said to have been assisted by Oliver Wolcott."
"End of first part."--Foot of p. 64. The second part was published in November.
Place of publication and printer's name suggested by Evans.
Jasper Yeate's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature as Judge Yeates at top of title page.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An examaination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800
Evans,
Subjects
Adams, John, - 1735-1826.
Jefferson, Thomas, - 1743-1826.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797.
United States.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards.
Additional Author
Wolcott, Oliver,
Fenno, John,
Thacher, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 459 1796
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The whole of the proceedings at the assizes at Shrewsbury on Friday August the sixth, 1784 : in the cause of the King on the prosecution of William Jones, attorney at law, against the Rev. William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph : for a libel : before the Hon. Francis Buller, esq

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Author
Shipley, William Davies,
Date of Publication
1784.
Call Number
Book 608 1784
Responsibility
taken in short hand by William Blanchard.
Author
Shipley, William Davies,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by H. Goldney, and sold by J. Johnson,
Date of Publication
1784.
Physical Description
1 page ;., 112 pages ; 20 cm.
Series
Grey tracts ; 14
Notes
Contains copious extracts from "Principles of government, in a dialogue between a gentleman and a farmer" by Sir William Jones, the "seditious libel" which the Dean of St. Asaph was accused of publishing.
LCHS copy is bound between pages 120 and 121 of The whole proceedings on the trial ...against Johbn Stockdale...London: John Stockdale, 1790.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 608 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Shipley, William Davies, - 1745-1826 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Shipley, William Davies, - 1745-1826.
Trials (Seditious libel) - England.
Trials (Seditious libel)
England.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Jones, William,
Blanchard, William Isaac,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Assizes (Shropshire, England)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 608 1784
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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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Report of the trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., on an information filed, ex officio, by the attorney general, for the distribution of a libel : with the subsequent proceedings thereon : containing the arguments of counsel, the opinion of the court, and Mr. Rowan's address to the court, at full

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Date of Publication
1794.
Call Number
Book 607 1794b
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esquire and sold by P. Byrne, Grafton Street,
Date of Publication
1794.
Physical Description
[2], 152 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 607 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Subjects
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, - 1751-1834
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, - 1751-1834.
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817, - former owner.
United Irishmen.
Trials (Seditious libel) - Ireland - Early works to 1800.
Trials (Seditious libel)
Ireland.
Early works.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton,
Byrne, Patrick,
Additional Corporate Author
Ireland. Court of King's Bench.
Place
Ireland Dublin.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 607 1794b
Less detail

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
Less detail

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
Less detail

March's actions for slander, and arbitrements. : The first, being a collection, under certain grounds and heads, of what words are actionable in the law, and what not: where an action de scandalis magnatum will lie: and of the nature of a libel. The other, a discourse, shewing what arbitrements are good in law, and what not: together with directions and presidents of conditions to perform awards, indentures of submission to awards, with covenants to perform the same; arbitrements of lands which the parties covenant to perform, or of debt, &c. upon submission by bond, and variety of pleadings therein. As also, certain quaeries, or doubtful cases, under proper titles, with the books cited pro & contra; very useful for all students in the law

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Author
March, John,
Edition
And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: By W.B.
Date of Publication
1674.
Call Number
Book 440 1648
Alternate Title
Actions for slander, and arbitrements
Responsibility
First written by Jo. March of Grayes-Inn, barrister, in the year, 1648.
Author
March, John,
Edition
And now reviewed and enlarged with many useful additions: By W.B.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Elizabeth Walbanck, at Grayes-Inn Gate in Grayes-Inn Lane,
Date of Publication
1674.
Physical Description
[8], 219, p. 218, 223-320, 401-476, [18] p. ; (8vo)
Notes
Text is continuous despite pagination.
With three indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial law library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 440 as assigned by Yeates.
Wing (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Subjects
Libel and slander - England - Early works to 1800.
Arbitration and award - England - Early works to 1800.
Arbitration and award.
Libel and slander.
England.
Early works.
Half-leather linen (Binding)
Additional Author
W. B.,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 440 1648
Less detail

A brief narrative of the case and tryal of John Peter Zenger, printer of the New-York weekly journal

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Author
Zenger, John Peter,
Date of Publication
1736.
Call Number
Book 467 1736
Author
Zenger, John Peter,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Printed and sold by John Peter Zenger,
Date of Publication
1736.
Physical Description
42 (i.e. 40) pages ; 29 cm
Notes
Caption title.
"At a Supream Court of judicature held for the province of New-York, at the City hall of the City of New-York, on Wednesday, the 16th day of April, 1735"--Page 10.
Error in paging: no. 15-16 omitted.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 467 as assigned by Yeates.
At top of first page: Presented to the Lancaster Law Library by Samuel Evans of Columbia, Pa, Feb 28th, 1873.
Evans
Subjects
Zenger, John Peter, - 1697-1746
Trials (Seditious libel) - New York (State) - New York.
Freedom of the press - New York (State)
Freedom of the press.
Trials (Seditious libel)
New York (State)
New York (State) - New York.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Three-quarters leather on linen boards.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Evans, Samuel.
Additional Corporate Author
New York (Colony). Supreme Court of Judicature.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 467 1736
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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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