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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

: Commencing May Term 1770 and Ending August Term 1782. Both Inclusive. This volume was originally housed with the Jasper Yeates Colonial Law Library. Book 4 Contains signature of Jasper Yeates on title page with date January 1, 1770/ Lancaster County Docket: Commencing February Term 1770 and Ending November

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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

Le beau-pledeur. A book of entries, containing declarations, informations and other select and approved pleadings: with special verdicts and demurrers, in most actions, real, personal, and mixt, which have been argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster. Together with faithful references to the most authentick printed law-books now extant, where the cases of these entries are reported; and a more copious and useful table than hath been hitherto printed in any book of entries. The whole comprehending the very art and method of good pleading

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Author: Winch, Sir Humphrey,

Date of Publication: 1680.

Call Number: Book 727 1680

Responsibility: By the Reverend Sir Humphrey Winch, knight ...

Author: Winch, Sir Humphrey,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by G. Sawbridge, W. Rawlins, and S. Roycroft, assigns or R. and E. Atkins, for T. Basset

Date of Publication: 1680.

Physical Description: 4 preliminary leaves, 1183 (i.e. 1067), [84] pages 36 cm

Notes: Text in Latin.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book numbaer 727 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Great Britain. - Courts.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Pleading.; Great Britain.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 727 1680

A book of entries: of declarations and other pleadings general and special, in the most usual actions in the Court of Kings-bench. Also a choice collection of special writs, and their retorns. Together with observations in pleading, instructing the younger clerks in the practice of that court

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Author: Hansard, John.

Date of Publication: 1685.

Call Number: Yeates Book 70 1685

Responsibility: From the original manuscripts in court-hand, collected and drawn by John Hansard ... To which are added, appeals of murder and mayheme, with variety of pleadings therein. Not printed before in any book of entries or pleadings.

Author: Hansard, John.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, for William Crook,

Date of Publication: 1685.

Physical Description: 9 preliminary leaves, 283, [20] pages 32 cm

Notes: Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, AÂ², (a)â´, Â², B-Zâ´, Aa-Nnâ´, Oo-TtÂ².; Error in paging: p. 75-78 incorrectly numbered 67-70.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 70 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Great Britain. - Court of King's Bench.; Pleading - Great Britain.; Writs - Great Britain.; Pleas of the crown.; Pleading.; Writs.; Great Britain.; Full leather blind tooled (Binding); Gilt title on maroon tab on spine (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 70 1685

A book of special entries of declarations, pleadings, issues, verdicts, judgments, and judicial process : in such actions as are now in use, and have not hitherto been published in any printed book of precedents : together with such notes and observations as do either illustrate or explain the same : as also such parts of pleadings and judicial process which do naturally fall under the division of each distinct title, as necessary and incident thereunto

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Author: Robinson, Thomas,

Date of Publication: 1684.

Call Number: Book 68 1684

Responsibility: collected by the particular direction of Sir Thomas Robinson ...

Author: Robinson, Thomas,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for T. Basset ... and B. Tooke ...,

Date of Publication: 1684.

Physical Description: [4], 479, [37] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: [A]Â² B-3Pâ´ 3Q-4AÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 68 as assigned by Yeates.; Bookplate of Stephen Chambers partially removed with note" Bought by Jasper Yeates on 10 March 1790."; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain.; Civil procedure - Great Britain.

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 68 1684

Cases collect & report

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Edition: Le 2. ed.

Date of Publication: 1688.

Call Number: Yeates Book 115 1688

Responsibility: per Sir Fra. Moore chivalier [1512-1621]. Imprime & publie per l'original jadis remainant en les maines de Sir Gefrey Palmer chevalier & bar.

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Courts.

Edition: Le 2. ed.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for G. Pawlet, and are to be sold by Mat. Wotton,

Date of Publication: 1688.

Physical Description: 9 preliminary leaves, 918, [73] pages frontispiece (portrait) 31 cm

Notes: Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, a-dÂ², A-Zâ´, Aa-Zzâ´, Aaa-Zzzâ´, Aaaa-Zzzzâ´, Aaaaa-Zzzzzâ´, 6A-6SÂ².; Cases in the courts of King's bench, Common pleas, Exchequer, and Chancery. cf. Soule, Lawyer's ref. manual, 1884.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 115 as assigned by Yeates.; Handwritten marginal notes.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.

Additional Author: Moore, Francis,; Yeates, Jasper,; Palmer, Gefrey,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Yeates Book 115 1688

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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