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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

Archive

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Object ID: MG0410

Date Range: 1691-1963

perches of land in New Design. 24 April 1765. Folder 4 Deed from Leonard and Mary Stone to the High Dutch Presbyterian Reformed Church in Earl Twp. for 152 acres in Earl Twp. Members and trustees listed are John Dievenderfer Sr., John Dievenderfer Jr., John [Brubaker], John Painter, Christian Sneider Jr

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Collection: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Title: Diffenderffer Family Papers

Description: The Diffenderffer Family Papers collection contains items that have been passed down through generations of the Diffenderffer family. Deeds for tracts of land in New Holland date back to the creation of New Design, the village that preceded New Holland. Correspondence and some manuscripts pertain to J. P. McCaskey's life and accomplishments. F. R. Diffenderffer's manuscripts on Easter Day and Conrad Weiser are preserved with this collection, as well as poems, a program for the C. Elvin Haupt School, and a claim of F. R. Diffenderffer & Co. against the State of Texas.

Date Range: 1691-1963

Year Range From: 1691

Year Range To: 1963

Date of Accumulation: 1691-1963

Creator: Diffenderffer family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 10

People: Brubaker, John; Brubaker, Margaret; Brubaker, Philip; Davis, Sarah; Diffenderfer, David; Diffenderfer, Elizabeth Shirk; Diffenderfer, John; Diffenderffer, Christina; Diffenderffer, David; Diffenderffer, David, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz; Diffenderffer, Frank Ried; Diffenderffer, Harold F.; Diffenderffer, John, Jr.; Diffenderffer, John, Sr.; Diffenderffer, Margaretta Stein; Diffenderffer, Michael; Freymyer, Jacob; Grim, Henry; Haupt, Charles Elvin; Hoch, Herman E.; Holl, Wendel; Hubley, Bernard; Kennerly, John; Kinzer, John; Kinzer, Magdalena; Koch, Mary; Koch, Melchior; Law, James D.; Markley, Henry; McCaskey, Donald G.; McCaskey, John Piersol "Jack"; Nevin, Blanche; Painter, John; Penn, William; Rodman, John H.; Shirk, Henry; Smith, Oliver; Smith, William Evans; Sneider, Christian; Stone, David; Stone, George; Stone, Leonard; Stone, Mary; Sutton, Mary A. Diffenderffer; Thomson, Bill "Tommy"; Winter, John; Young, Matthias

Other Creators: Diffenderffer, Fianna L. Lutz, 1918-2009; Diffenderffer, David

Subjects: Deeds; Letters; Real property

Search Terms: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Conestoga River; Correspondence; Deeds; Drowning; Earl Twp.; England; Estate settlement; Finding aids; German Reformed Church of New Holland; Haupt Elementary School; Hutchings Printing House; King Street; Lancaster; Land drafts; Lemon Street School; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mortgages; New Design, Earl Twp.; New Holland; Newspaper clippings; Programs; Real estate; Real property surveys; Reigart's Landing; Susquehanna River; Texas; Texas Frontier Forces; Windsor Forge

Extent: 1 box, 23 folders, .5 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0410

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Collection Title (MG#), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).; Deeds in folders 1-18 were a gift of Fianna Diffenderffer and the Diffenderffer family, 4 November 2006.; Items in folders 19-23 were a gift from her nephew, David Diffenderffer, 14 August 2006.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2006.MG0410_NOV

Other Numbers: MG-410

Classification: MG0410

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged by HST, November 2008. Added to database 28 July 2021.

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Brownlow LatinÃ¨ redivivus : a book of entries : of such declarations, informations, pleas in barr and abatement, replications, rejoynders, issues, verdicts, bills of exception to verdicts, judgments, demurrers, and other parts of pleadings, (now in use) in personal and mixt actions : contained in the first and second parts of the declarations and pleadings of Richard Brownlow

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Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Alternate Title: Book of entries

Responsibility: (unskilfully turned into English, and) printed in the years 1653 and 1654 ; now published in Latin, their original language, with additions of authentick modern precedents, inserted under every title, and a copious table, after the method of Mr. Townsend.

Author: Brownlow, Richard,

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns ... and are to be sold by S. Heyrick ... T. and G. Sawbridge ... and M. Gillyflower ...,

Date of Publication: MDCXCIII [1693]

Physical Description: [6], 260, 361-506, [46] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

Notes: Signatures: piÂ² aÂ¹ B-2Kâ´ 2LÂ² 3A-3Sâ´ 3T-4GÂ².; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Signature of Witt. Cowper, Dec. 9.92. Pr 14s struck through.; Book number 63 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed.); ESTC

Subjects: Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.

Additional Author: Wythe, George,; Pollock, Frederick,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 63 1693

Cases in Parliament resolved and adjudged, upon petitions and writs of error

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Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Date of Publication: 1698.

Call Number: Book 738 1698

Responsibility: [1694-1698].

Corporate Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: A. and J. Churchill,

Date of Publication: 1698.

Physical Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 224, [2] pages 33 cm

Notes: Reported by Sir Bartholomew Shower.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page beside former owner E. Biddle.; Book number 738 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; Great Britain.; Law reports, digests, etc - Early works to 1800 - Great Britain; Early works.; Early works to 1800.; Full blind-tolled leather.

Additional Author: Shower, Bartholomew,; Yeates, Jasper,; Biddle, E.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 738 1698

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

The entring clerk's vade mecum : being an exact collection of precedents for declarations and pleadings in most actions, especially such as are brought for, or against heirs, executors, or administrators, executrices, administratices, and their husbands, in personal actions : also upon bills of exchange, pollicies of assurance, &c., and such process and parts of pleading as relate thereunto : being very practicable and useful to all entring-clerks, and attornies in His Majesties Courts of Kings-Bench and Common Pleas, as also to the attornies and practicers of every inferieur court and county-judicature

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Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Date of Publication: 1695.

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

Responsibility: collected by William Brown, Gent.

Author: Brown, William,

Edition: The second edition, with divers alternations and amendments and the addition of several curious entries throughout.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Nathaniel Ponder, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,

Date of Publication: 1695.

Physical Description: [8], 600, [64] p. 29 cm. (8vo)

Notes: Author statement follows edition statement on t.p.; Signatures: [A]â´ B-2Pâ¸ 2Qâ´ 2R-2Uâ¸.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number1023 as assigned by Yeates.; Wing (2nd ed., 1994); ESTC

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

Additional Author: Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther,; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 1028 1695

Hugo Grotius, his most choice discourses out of that excellent treatise De veritate religionis ChristianÃ¦. I. Of God, and His providence. II. Of Christ, His miracles and doctrine, with annotations, and the authors life. III. His judgement in sundry points controverted, contained in his vote for the churches peace. IV. An epistle consolatorie

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Author: Grotius, Hugo,

Edition: The third edition, corrected with lively brasse pieces newly added.

Date of Publication: 1657.

Call Number: Bookk 744 1657

Responsibility: translated out of the Latin, by Cl. Barksdale.

Author: Grotius, Hugo,

Uniform Title: De veritate religionis Christianae.

Edition: The third edition, corrected with lively brasse pieces newly added.

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Printed for W. Lee at the Turks Head in Fleetstreet over against Fetter-Lane.,

Date of Publication: 1657.

Physical Description: [22], 142 pages plates ; 12mo

Notes: Includes "Appendix. Hugo Grotius his judgement ..." which has separate titlepage dated 1658 but continuous pagination and signatures. Bound, and possibly issued with, "The mourner comforted ... ", London, 1658 which is catalogued separately.; Wing reports an issue of the third edition dated 1658 but no example dated 1657.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of struck W. Coward.; Book number 744 as assigned by Yeates.; Not found in

Subjects: Catholic Church - Apologetic works - Early works to 1800.; Catholic Church.; Apologetics - Early works to 1800.; Apologetics; Apologetics.; Apologetic writings.; Early works.; History.; Full blind tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Place: England London.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Bookk 744 1657

Judgements as they were upon solemne arguments given in the Upper-Bench and Common-Pleas, upon the most difficult points in all manner of actions : together with the terms and number-rolls, in which the same are entred : as also other speciall judiciall proceedings in order thereunto, taken out of the records of the same Court, very usefull for all clerks, attorneys, and others

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

Date of Publication: 1655.

Call Number: Book 443 1655

Responsibility: vvith an exact alphabeticall table, wherein may be found the principall matters therein contained.

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

Place of Publication: [London]

Publisher: Printed by Thomas Roycroft, and are to be sold at most stationers shops in London,

Date of Publication: 1655.

Physical Description: [4], 235, 240-336, 339-344, [22] p. ; 17 cm (8vo)

Notes: Signatures: AÂ² B-Zâ¸ 2Aâ¶.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of second title page.; Book number 443 as assigned by Yeates.; Library copy lacks title and flyleaf pages.; Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson,; English short title catalogue,; Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.),

Subjects: Law reports, digests, etc. - England - Early works to 1800.; Law reports, digests, etc.; England.; Early works.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 443 1655

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