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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

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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

17603 717.392.4633 · lancasterhistory.org Box 1 Folder 1 Letter from John Yeates, Jr., to John Yeates, Sr. (uncle), Jan.20,1743-44, from Barbados to Philadelphia Reporting a safe passage to Barbados and his progress of selling the goods. Folder 2 1. Letter from Jasper Yeates to Sarah Yeates (wife

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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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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

De successionibus apud Anglos : the law of hereditary descents, shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : also the law of descent as now in rule

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Author: Hale, Matthew,

Date of Publication: 1700.

Call Number: Book 441 1700

Responsibility: by Sir Matthew Hale.

Author: Hale, Matthew,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for S.S. and are to be sold at the corner of Gutter-lane in Cheapside,

Date of Publication: 1700.

Physical Description: [10], 104 pages, 1 folded leaf ; 18 cm (8vo)

Notes: Chapter 11 of the author's "The history and analysis of the common law of England," which was published in 1713.; The folded leaf has "A scheme of pedigrees: and also the degrees of parentage and consanguinity."; Another ed. was published in this same year by R. Battersby.; Includes advertisement on p. [2].; "This treatise I think may be truly said to be PrimÃ¦ Impressionis" ... p. [8].; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 441 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing

Subjects: Inheritance and succession - Great Britain.; Kinship.; Land tenure - Great Britain.; Law - Great Britain - Sources.; Inheritance and succession.; Land tenure.; Law.; Great Britain.; Sources.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 441 1700

The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self : haec ego grandaevus posui tibi candide lector

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Author: Coke, Edward,

Edition: The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].

Date of Publication: 1703.

Call Number: Book 755 1703

Alternate Title: Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self

Responsibility: authore Edwardo Coke, milite.

Author: Coke, Edward,

Uniform Title: First part of the institutes of the laws of England

Edition: The tenth edition, carefully corrected from the errors of the former impressions, with an alphabetical table, to which are added two learned tracts of the same author, the first, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward the First, entituled The statute of levying fines, and the second, of Bail and mainprize, in this tenth edition is also added his compleat copy-holder, a learned treatise of the authors never before printed in any of his works in folio, with many thousands of new references to the modern law cases, by an eminent lawyer, never printed before, and distingushed from the old references by this mark [double dagger].

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street and J. Walthoe in Vine-Court, Middle-Temple, adjoyning to the Cloysters,

Date of Publication: 1703.

Physical Description: [5] leaves, 88 p., 394, [32] leaves, [1] folded leaf, [2] leaves of plates ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Notes: A reprint of Littleton's Tenures, with a translation in English from Anglo-Norman (Law French), and commentary. Printed in parallel columns.; Some errors in foliation.; Signatures: pi1 [superscript pi]Aâ´ a-yÂ² A-3Dâ´ [superscript chi]3DÂ² 3E-5Eâ´ 5Fâ¶ Â²A-Â²Eâ¶.; "Le Reading del mon Seignior Coke, 34 Eliz. anno 1592, sur lestatute de 27 E.I. appelle lestatute de finibus levatis" and "A treatise of bail & mainprize, written by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 1-27 of the 88 p. sequence; "The compleat copy-holder, being a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, with all things thereunto incident by Sir Edward Coke, Knight" on p. 29-88 of the 88 p. sequence.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; John Yeate's signature at top of title page under that of former owner J. Hartleys; Book number 755 as assigned by Yeates.; Includes bibliographical references, and index: "A table to the first part of the institutes of the laws of England."; ESTC

Subjects: Land tenure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Real property - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Fines and recoveries - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Bail - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Manors - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Copyhold - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Bail.; Copyhold.; Fines and recoveries.; Land tenure; Manors.; Real property.; Great Britain.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Spine title missing (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,; Littleton, Thomas,; Coke, Edward,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 755 1703

The fourth and last part of Modern reports, being a collection of several special cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King & Queen's Bench : in the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the reigns of King William and Queen Mary, and 7th year of King William, and judgments thereupon : with several of the pleadings at large, being carefully examined by the records : and also the number-rolls of most of the other cases : very few of these cases were ever printed before

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Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.

Date of Publication: 1703.

Alternate Title: Modern reports

Responsibility: carefully collected by a learned hand.

Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins Esqrs. for Charles Harper ...,

Date of Publication: 1703.

Physical Description: [8], 424, [24] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)

Notes: "Some books printed for, and sold by Charles Harper ... ": last page.; Signatures: [A]â´ B-3Hâ´ 3I-3OÂ².; Includes index.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 128 as assigned by Yeates.; Information struck on title page.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.; Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain.

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Queen's Bench.

The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law ... Of the power of the justices by the common and statute law in punishing offenders, and searching gaming-houses

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Date of Publication: 1708.

Call Number: Book 446 1700

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for Arthur Collins ... and Sam. Butler ...

Date of Publication: 1708.

Physical Description: [16], 120, [8] pages 17 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page with two struck former owners.; Book number 446 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Gambling - Great Britain.; Gambling.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 446 1700

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

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Archive

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Certaine observations concerning the office of the Lord Chancellor

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21026

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20887

De successionibus apud Anglos : the law of hereditary descents, shewing the rise, progress and successive alterations thereof : also the law of descent as now in rule

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21140

The first part of the institutes of the laws of England, or, A commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the author only, but of the law it self : haec ego grandaevus posui tibi candide lector

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21808

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20954

The gamesters law; wherein is treated, of unlawful games, and what are esteemed such in our law ... Of the power of the justices by the common and statute law in punishing offenders, and searching gaming-houses

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21146