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
Liber placitandi : a book of special pleadings, containing precedents of pleas in abatement, declarations, barrs, replications, rejoynders, demurrers, issues, and judgments, in the now most common and ordinary actions : viz., actions upon the case, actions upon statutes, account, covenant, debt, prohibitions, replevin, scire facias, and trespass : also the forms of entries in writs of error, utlaries, general issues, and judgments, intended for the benefit of the students of the common law, and for the use of practising clerks and attorneys : together with a table
Origines juridiciales, or Historical memorials of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of tryal, punishment in cases criminal, law-writers, law-books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeant, Innes of court and chancery
Also a chronologie of the lord chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, justices itinerant, justices of the Kings bench and Commom pleas, barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and sollicitors, and serjeants at law; by William Dvgdale ...
Signatures: A-Z, Aa-Ii, Kk-Yy, 5 â„“. not signed, Bbb, Ccc-Hhh, Iii, 1 â„“. not signed, A-Z, Aa-Gg.
Head-pieces: a few manuscript marginal notes; the "Chronica series" covers the period 1067-1671, and is extended in manuscript through 1727 (with omission of last four columns, magist. rotulorum &c., for 1722-1727.
Placita Latinè redeviva : a book of entries containing perfect and approved precedents of counts, declarations, barrs, avowries, replications, pleas in abatement, issues, judgments, as well in actions real as personal, and sundry other entries useful for all clerks, attorneys and practisers in the courts at Westminster and inferiour courts : not heretofore published in print
collected in the times and out of some of the manuscripts of those famous and learned protonotaries Richard Brownlow [and others] ; digested into an exact method with a table by R.A.
Edition
The 3rd ed. corr. and amended.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for H. Twyford, John Place, and T. Basset,
Printed by George Sawbridge, William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft ...,
Date of Publication
1679.
Physical Description
2 pts. in 1 volumes ; 39 cm (fol.)
Notes
Part 1 covers the period 1-10 Edward III (1328-1338); part 2, 17-39 Edward III (1344-1367) with the omission of some years.
Part 2 has title: Le second part de Les reports des cases en ley, que furent argues en le temps de tres haut & puisant prince, roy Edward le Tierce. Ore nouvelment imprimes, corriges & amendes, avec les notations & references a l'abregement de l'tres reverend & tres sage juge de cest royaulme, Fitzherbert.
LHO spine labels: volume 1: Reports, Edward II - volume 2 Reports Edward 3d part 1; - volume 3 Reports Edward 3d part 2 - volume 4 Reports Henry 6 part lst; - volume 5: Reports Henry 6, part 2nd; Edward 4th - volume 6: Reports Edward 5th, Richard 3, Henry th7th & 8th.