Samuel E. Dyke was a noted authority on the Pennsylvania rifle and wrote on this subject. Collection consists of articles, correspondence, photographs, research notes, and working papers on firearms. Also included is information on gunsmiths, the Rockford Foundation, the Heritage Center, cabinetmakers, grandfather clocks, and the Armstrong Cork Company. 1670-1985
A treatise on the laws of England attributed to John Breton or Britton, but largely based on "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae" by Henry de Bracton.
[Les reports des divers select matters & resolutions des reverend judges & sages del ley : touchant & concernant mults principal points occurrent estre debate per eux: en le several reignes de les tres-hault & excellent princes, le roys Hen. 8 & Edw. 6 & le roignes Mar. & Eliz
collect & report per tres-reverend judge, Sr. Jaques Dyer chivaler ; jades chief justice del Common Bank en le temps du roigne Elizabeth. A que est novelment addes mult mille de references al plusors livers del common ley cybien auncient come modern ovesq ; grand nombre de cases ne unques devant imprimeè. Ove troice tables perfaicts, le primer conteinant le principal matter in le dit liure. Le second le nosmes des touts le cases contenus en mesme. Le tierce le nosmes des cases novelment add en le margent del liure].
[Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and M. Flesher assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Samuel Keble at the Turks-Head over against Fetter-Lane in Fleet-Street],
The office of the clerk of assize : containing the form and method of the proceedings at the Assizes and General Gaol-Delivery as also on the crown and nisi prius side : together with The office of the clerk of the peace : shewing the true manner and form of the proceedings at the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace : wih divers forms of presentments and other precedents at assizes and sessions : with a table of fees thereunto belonging
The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
The transactions of the High Court of Chancery, both by practice and president, with the fees thereunto belonging, and all speciall orders in extraordinary cases, which are to be found in the Registers office as they are quoated by tearmes, yeares & bookes