Inventories of estates show name of decedent and township, date filed, itemized list of possessions and assets, appraised valuation, and signatures and affidavit of appraisers and administrators. Administrators' Accounts and Administrators' Bonds are also filed with this collection prior to 1776. Other estate related papers sometimes included before 1776 were: Orphans' Court papers, Renunciations, and Vendue Lists. Inventories were sometimes filed with the wills and may be at the courthouse. Appraisers often included widow's allotments in the inventories. Any additional information such as occupation, cause of death, or the listing of enslaved persons or indentured servants are noted in the database.
Prior to 1752, documents between the months of January and March were subject to double dating, as a result of the conflict between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Therefore, documents filed between 1 January and 25 March have two years listed; one from the old Julian calendar and one from the new Gregorian calendar.
System of Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically and then chronologically within each letter.
Commemorative badge for Postlethwaite's Tavern, "Postlethwaite's 1729"
1.25-inch diameter button featuring a stucture: "Postlethwaite's 1729." Decorative gold-colored metal frame clamped onto center button.Made by Mason Costume Co., Lancaster, PA
Praxis utriusque banci. The antient and modern practice of the two superior courts at Westminster, viz. The Kings Bench, and Common Pleas. Together with the rules and orders of the said courts. To which is added, the practice of the Sheriffs Court, London. Containing divers antient customs and immunities of that city: not hitherto published in print. As also Norma curiarum inferiorum: or A rule to keep inferior courts within their just bounds
Antient and modern practice of the two superior courts at Westminster
Ancient and modern practice of the two superior courts at Westminster
Course of the proceedings observed in the Court of Common-Pleas
Norma curiarum inferiorum
Course and practice of the Sheriffs Court in the City of London
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
printed for J. Place, and T. Bassett, at Furnivals-Inn-Gate in Holbourn, and at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street,
Date of Publication
1674.
Physical Description
[22], 63, [1], 192, 32 p. ; 8vo.
Notes
In 3 parts. Part 2, "The course of the proceedings observed in the Court of Common-Pleas" (caption title) begins new pagination on 2A1. Part 3, "Norma curiarum inferiorum" (mostly in Latin) has separate title page, dated 1673, separate pagination and register. It may have been published separately in 1673 (Wing N1238A).
Part 2 includes "The course and practice of the Sheriffs Court in the City of London" (caption title), p. 151-192.
Leaf a1 is cancelled; leaf a2 and a3 are signed a and a2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page opposite that of former owenr Cas. Weitzel.
