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An epitome of all the common & statute laws of this nation, now in force. Wherein more then fifteen hundred of the hardest words or terms of the law are explained; and all the most useful and profitable heads or titles of the law by way of common place, largely, plainly, and methodically handled. With an alphabetical table. By William Sheppard, Esq; Published by His Highness special command

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Author: Sheppard, William,

Date of Publication: 1656.

Call Number: Book 94 1656

Author: Sheppard, William,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, J. Wright, H. Twyford, G. Bedell, Tho. Brewster, Ed. Dod, and J. Place,

Date of Publication: 1656.

Physical Description: [22], 1131, [1] p. ; (fol.)

Notes: Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at at top of title page preceded by five others struck out and another on the back of the front fly leaf.; Book number 94 as assigned by Yeates.; Book plate of Beniamin Price on back of front cover.; Wing (CD-Rom, 1996),; ESTC (RLIN),

Subjects: Law - England - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.; Law.; Law reports, digests, etc.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)34191000148566

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 94 1656

An exact book of entries, of the most select judiciall writs used in the common-law

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Author: Moyle, Robert.

Date of Publication: 1658.

Call Number: Book 77 1658

Alternate Title: Exact book of entries, of the most select judicial writs used in the common-law; Exact book of entries, of the most select judiciall vvrits used in the common-law; Judicial writs used in the common-law

Responsibility: translated from the originall manuscript, which was collected by the hands of that eminent clerk, Robert Moyle, Esq. ... quoting ... book-cases, opinions of judges, number rolls, and many other requisites, for the confirmation of every entry, whereof none have been ever published before by J.H. Gent.

Author: Moyle, Robert.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for R. Crofts,

Date of Publication: 1658.

Physical Description: [2] 214 [14] pages ; 23 cm

Notes: Pages from 128- numbered irregularly; pagination skips to p. 137.; "A work of much industry, as may appeare by the authors great paines in quoting of book cases, opinions of judges, number rolls, and many other requisites, for the confirmation of every entry, whereof none have been ever published before."; "Printed now for the use and benefit of all, but aimed most especially for such as are most conversant in the common-law."; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 77 as assigned by Yeates.; Notes on title page

Subjects: Writs - Great Britain.; Common law - England - Early works to 1800.; Law - England - Sources - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Gent, J. H.; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 77 1658

Archive

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Object ID: MG0205

Date Range: 1699-1934

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Collection: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Title: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection

Description: Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection provides insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and details of legal business from 1743-1870. These documents have been collected by the Lancaster County Historical Society over many years. Collection includes letters, receipts, articles, eviction notice, advertisement, estate inventories, wills, deeds, treaty, court transcript, drawings, photographs, copy of house plan, post road distances, daybook, letter book, catalog of books in Jasper Yeates' library, and an alphabetical catalog of law books.

Date Range: 1699-1934

Year Range From: 1699

Year Range To: 1934

Date of Accumulation: 1699-1934

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 05

People: Atkinson, Matthew; Bausman, William; Bond, Phineas; Bowman, Valentine; Bradford, W.; Brien, Edward; Burd, Edward; Carson, John; Coates, Samuel; Conyngham, David; Conyngham, Elizabeth Yeates; Conyngham, Redmond; Dallas, George M.; Davis, Jonathan; Davison, Benjamin; Dickey, Robert; Duncannon, Thomas; Edward, Thomas; Erter, Henry; Ewing, John; Ferguson, John; Fohren, Michael; Gibson, John; Gillchrist, John; Godcharles, Frederic A.; Graff, Conrad; Gregg, Andrew; Grubb, Peter; Hamilton, Charles; Hamilton, James; Hamilton, John; Hamilton, William; Hand, Edward; Hand, Jasper; Hayes, A. L.; Henry, John; Hess, David; Jago, John; Javin, William; Keeportz, Daniel; Kittera, William; Kremer, Philip; Krug, Jacob; Kurtz, William; Lindsay, William; Loudersmith, Wendel; Lyon, Joseph Barnet; Magaw, David; Marshall, J.; McClellan, John; McKean, Thomas; Millar, John; Miller, Michael; Minich, Henry; Muhlenberg, William Augustus; Nesbitt, John; Nissley, Martin; Ord, John; Philips, David; Postlethwaite, John; Poultney, Thomas; Price, Eli K.; Probst, John; Ramsey, Robert; Rawle, William; Riegart, Adam; Rine, Widow; Ross, George; Ross, J.; Scott, James; Sergeant, Thomas; Shippen, Edward; Shippen, Evans Wallis; Shippen, Robert; Simpson, John; Smith, Charles; Smith, Mary Yeates; Stein, Charles; Steinman, Fredrick; Stevenson, Henry; Stewart, Charles; Sturmii, Johannis Christophorus; Thomas, John; Tilghman, Benjamin C.; Tilghman, E.; Tilghman, Edward; Tilghman, William; Tilghman, William B.; Towson, William; Underwood, John; Wallace, George; Wallace, William; Waln, Nicholas; Warden, J.; White, William; Wickersham, Elijah; Willson, Samuel; Yeates, Catharine; Yeates, Jasper; Yeates, Jasper, Jr.; Yeates, John, Jr.; Yeates, John, Sr.; Yeates, Margaret; Yeates, Sarah Burd "Sally"; Zantzinger, Paul

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Family records; Law libraries; Letters; Library catalogs; Wills

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Family records; Finding aids; Letters; Manuscript groups; Wills

Extent: 6 boxes, 49 folders, 13 books, 6 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0205

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Yeates, Aungst Collection (MG0206); Yeates, Carson Collection (MG0207); George M. Steinman Collection (MG0184); Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library; Objects in the Curatorial Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Yeates, Lancaster County Historical Society Collection (MG0205), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions noted at the item level. The letter copybooks in Folders 31 and 36 are restricted--please use the transcriptions available in the library.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org. Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-205

Classification: MG0205

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-34 and Books 1-2 were processed and finding aid prepared prior to 1997. Added to PP on 26 March 2022.

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Baron and feme : a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives : wherein is contained the nature of a feme covert, and of marriages, bastardy, the privileges of feme coverts, what alterations are made by marriage as to estates, leases, goods, and actions, what things of the wife accrue to the husband by the intermarriage or not, what acts, charges, forfeitures by the husband shall bind the wife after his death or not, of jointures and pleadings, fines and recovery, conveyances, and other law titles relating to baron and feme

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Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Date of Publication: 1719.

Call Number: Book 887 1719

Edition: The 2nd ed., with large additions.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.) for John Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1719.

Physical Description: [28], 422, [42] pages ; 20 cm

Notes: Signatures: Aâ¸ aâ´ bÂ² B-2Gâ¸.; Advertisements on first and last leaves.; "Precedents": p. 395-422.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 887 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Husband and wife - Great Britain.; Marriage law - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Forms (Law); Husband and wife.; Marriage 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 887 1719

Certaine observations concerning the office of the Lord Chancellor

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Author: Egerton, Thomas,

Date of Publication: 1651.

Call Number: Yeates Book 233 1651

Responsibility: Composed by the Right Honorable and most learned Thomas, Lord Ellesmere, late Lord Chancellor of England. Whereunto is annexed a perfect table, and a methodicall analysis of the whole treatise.

Author: Egerton, Thomas,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Matthew Walbanck ... Henry Twyford ... and John Place ...

Date of Publication: 1651.

Physical Description: [6], 120, [6] pages 14 cm

Notes: Signatures: *â´, A-Gâ¸, Hâ¶ (*â‚‚â‚ƒ incorreclty signed *â‚â‚‹â‚‚; *â‚„, advertisement).; Title within ornamental border. Marginal notes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 233 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Great Britain. - Lord Chancellor's Department.; Great Britain. - Court of Chancery.; Booksellers' advertisements - England - 17th century.; Booksellers' advertisements - England - London - 1651.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 233 1651

The commentaries upon original writs : where most of the cases in Bracton, book of entries, the year or term-books, from King Edward the Second to these times, with the plaints, counts, pleadings issues, demurrers in matters of law, the debates, opinions, rules of court, and resolutions of the judges therein, are reduced to the originall writs under severall heads or sections for the better understanding of the case and poynts of law : collected, abridged, and taken out of the books themselves

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Author: Hughes, William,

Date of Publication: 1655.

Call Number: Book 78 1655

Responsibility: by William Hughes of Grays Inne ...

Author: Hughes, William,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Henry Twyford, and John Place ...,

Date of Publication: 1655.

Physical Description: [16], 272, [8] p. ; 23 cm. (4to)

Notes: "The first part." No more published.; Signatures: Aâ´ aâ´ B-2Nâ´.; Leaf a4 is blank. According to ESTC, there is a variant with errata on leaf a4 recto.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 78 as assigned by Yeates.; Handwritten not about signature of Yeates on title page.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Contents: Right patent -- Writs of right patent in London -- Dower -- Writ of droit close, monstraverunt, false judgment, &c.

Subjects: Writs - Great Britain.; Writs.; Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 78 1655

The common and statute law of England concerning trials in high-treason, misprision of treason, and in all other crimes and offences relating to the Crown : briefly collected out of the common and statute law-books and trials relating to that subject, alphabetically digested under proper titles, wherein the learning of appeals is at large set forth under the same head : the whole is brought down to the present year 1710, with an exact table

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Author: W. J.

Date of Publication: 1710.

Call Number: Book 436 1710

Responsibility: by W.J., Barrister at law.

Author: W. J.

Place of Publication: In the Savoy [London]

Publisher: Printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edward Sayer, Esq. for John Walthoe ...,

Date of Publication: 1710.

Physical Description: [8], 405, [27] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Notes: "Very useful for all barristers, attorneys, justices of peace, and for all others that have, or may have occasion to be concern'd in such matters."; Signatures: Aâ´ B-2Eâ¸.; Bookseller's advertisements: p. [23-27] at end.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 436 as assigned by Yeates.; ESTC

Subjects: Criminal law - England - Early works to 1800.; Criminal procedure - England - Early works to 1800.; Criminal law.; Criminal procedure.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Damaged gilt title on maroon spine label (Binging)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 436 1710

A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries ; and recoveries upon writs of entry in the post. With ample and copious instructions 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 5th ed.,

Date of Publication: 1718 [-1719]

Call Number: Book 886 1719

Alternate Title: Compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries; Treatise of fines

Author: Brown, William,

Uniform Title: Compendious and accurate treatise recoveries upon writs of the post.

Edition: The 5th ed.,

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, Benj. Tooke, W. Mears, T. Ward, T. Bickerton, and T. Woodward.,

Date of Publication: 1718 [-1719]

Physical Description: 2 volumes ([8], 335, [29]; [8], 400, [22] pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Notes: "To Sir Francis North, Kt. ..." subscribed "William Brown" (v. 1); ded. to "Johanni Powel" by Gulielmus Brown (volume 2).; Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward. MDCCXIX. -- KU-S copy v. 2 wanting 2E4 (final leaf of index); Title page, volume 2: A compendious and accurate treatise of fines and recoveries. Vol. II. Containing a compleat collection of choice precedents ... The second edition very much corrected and amended ... By W. Brown, a clerk of the Court of Common-Pleas. In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling ... for Abel Roper, Daniel Midwinter and Thomas Ward, MDCCXIX [1719].; Originally issued (1v.)--in 1678 as A compendious and accurate treatise of recoveries upon writs of entry in the post.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 886 as assigned by Yeates.; LCHS lacks vol 1.; ESTC

Subjects: Fines and recoveries - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Fines and recoveries.; Forms (Law); Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Nutt, Elizabeth,; Gosling, Robert,; Browne, Daniel,; Walthoe, John,; Tooke, Benjamin,; Mears, W.; Ward, Thomas,; Bickerton, Thomas,; Woodward, Thomas,; Roper, Abel,; Midwinter, Daniel,; Guilford, Francis North,; Powell, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 886 1719

A continuation of the Practical register : in two parts, wherein are contained many rules of court, and also practical cases

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Author: Lilly, John.

Date of Publication: 1710.

Call Number: Book 1010 1710; Book 1011 1710

Alternate Title: Practical register

Responsibility: by John Lilly.

Author: Lilly, John.

Place of Publication: [London] In the Savoy

Publisher: Printed by John Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer esq. for Charles Harper,

Date of Publication: 1710.

Physical Description: 2 volumes ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes indexes.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 1010 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law - Great Britain.; Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain.; Criminal procedure - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.; Court rules - Great Britain.; Civil procedure.; Court rules.; Criminal procedure.; Equity pleading and procedure.; Law.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon title page (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1010 1710; Book 1011 1710

The embassador and his functions

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Author: Wicquefort, Abraham de,

Date of Publication: [1716]

Call Number: Book 712 1716

Responsibility: By Monsieur de Wicquefort. To which is added, an historical discourse, concerning the election of the emperor and the electors. By the same author. Translated into English by Mr. Digby.

Author: Wicquefort, Abraham de,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for B. Lintott

Date of Publication: [1716]

Physical Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 570, [28] pages 31 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates'ssignature at top of title page.; Book number 712 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Ambassadors.; Constitutional law - Holy Roman Empire.; Constitutional law.; Europe - Holy Roman Empire.; Ambassadors; Constitutional law - Holy Roman Empire; Full decorated leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding); Blue marbled end papers (Binding)

Additional Author: Digby, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 712 1716

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