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Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21608
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1777.
Call Number
Book 587 1777
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Articles of Confederation
Place of Publication
Lancaster
Publisher
Printed by Francis Bailey,
Date of Publication
1777.
Physical Description
26 pages ; 30 cm
Notes
Title within ornamental border; symbolic woodcut (Christ on the Emmaus Road?) at head of first p. of text.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeaates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 587 as assigned by Yeates.
Handwrittne Index precedes text.
Evans
Subjects
United States. - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history - United States - Sources - Early works to 1800.
Constitutional history.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783 - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Paper bindings (Binding)
Stabbing (Binding)
Chainlines (Paper)
Catchwords (Printing)
Printers' devices (Publishing)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Autographs (Provenance)
Early works.
Sources.
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 587 1777
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The Pennsylvania gazette. : Containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestic

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Date of Publication
1770.
Call Number
Newspaper 23 1772
Newspaper 24 1773
Newspaper 25 1776-1777
Newspaper 26 1784-1785
Newspaper 27 1786-1787
Newspaper 28 1788-1790
Newspaper 29 1995-1798
Alternate Title
Supplement to the Pennsylvania gazette
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by David Hall, and William Sellers, at the New Printing-Office, near the Market.],
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
[6] p. : orn. ; 41 cm.
Notes
LHO has in seven volumes, Jan 2, 1772, no. 2245 - Dec 30, 1772, no. 2297; Jan 6, 1773, no. 2298 - Dec 29, 1773, no. 2349; Jan 3, 1776, no. 2457 -Sep 16, 1777, no., 2533; Jan 7 1784, no 2901 - Dec 28, no. 2900; Jan 4, 1786m bi, 2901 - Dedc 26m 1687, no. 3004; Jan 2, 1788, no 3005 - Dec 20, 1790, no 3161; and Jan 7, 1795, no. 3364 - Dec 27, no. 3559.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signatuare at top of some front flyleaf and some individual issues.
Newspapers numbers 23,-29 as asssigned by LHO.
Newspaper 29 spine label misnamed Phila Gazette Weekly.
Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - To 1775 - Periodicals.
United States.
Periodicals.
Periodicals - 18th century.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Typed label affixed to spine (Binding)
Additional Author
Hall, David,
Sellers, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Newspaper 23 1772
Newspaper 24 1773
Newspaper 25 1776-1777
Newspaper 26 1784-1785
Newspaper 27 1786-1787
Newspaper 28 1788-1790
Newspaper 29 1995-1798
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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
  1 website  
Responsibility
by the author of Common sense.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed and sold by Styner and Cist, in Second-street, six doors above Arch-street. Where also may be had no. I. and II.,
Date of Publication
[1777]
Physical Description
[25]-56 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Signed: Common sense; dated: Philadelphia, April 19, 1777.
On the verso of the t.p. is a proclamatin by General Washington concerning deserters, dated April 6, 1777; also a general order, dated April 8, 1777.
Summary
One of Thomas Paine's 16 "American Crisis " patriotic essays written during the American Revolution between 1776 and 1783.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution - Contemporary opinion.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.3 P544 1777
Websites
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British spy map of Southeastern Pennsylvania from the Susquehanna to the Delaware River

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Date of Publication
c.1776.
Call Number
974.8 SEPA 500
Place of Publication
[s.l.]
Publisher
[s.n.] ,
Date of Publication
c.1776.
Physical Description
1 map : photocopy ; 49 x 96 cm.
Notes
Clinton Map #250 University of Michigan.
"General Sir William Howe may have used this map on his march from the Chesapeake Bay to Philadelphia in September 1777".
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution - 1775-1783.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Map
Call Number
974.8 SEPA 500
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Reports of certain cases, arising in the severall courts of record at Westminster; in the raignes of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charles. With the resolutions of the judges of the said courts, upon debate and solemn arguments

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21429
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Date of Publication
1653.
Call Number
Book 490 1653
Responsibility
Collected by very good hands, and lately re-viewed, examined, and approved of by the late learned Justice Godbolt. And now published by W: Hughes ... With two tables, one of the cases, the other of the principall matter therein contain'd ...
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Courts.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T.N. for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G: Bedell,
Date of Publication
1653.
Physical Description
4 preliminary leaves, 451 (i.e. 439), [11] pages 23 cm
Notes
Signatures: A-Z⁴, Aa-Ff², Hh-Zz⁴, Aaa-Nnn⁴.
Numbers 221-232 omitted in paging, numbers Ff³-Ff⁴, Gg-Gg⁴ omitted in signatures; the cases are numbered consecutively.
Pages 30-31, 35, 80, 204 wrongly numbered 32-33, 39, 66, 104, respectively.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signaturae on title page with three struck former owners.
Book number 490 as assigned by Yeates.
Hand-written marginalia.
On verso of first back fly leaf nine signatures.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Three-quarters leather on linen boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Godbolt,
Hughes, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 490 1653
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The rules and practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland : with the several statutes relative thereto. As also, several adjudged cases thereon. The work is ... inscribed to ... James Lord Baron Lifford ... by ... Gorges E. Howard

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Author
Howard, Gorges Edmond,
Date of Publication
MCCDLXXII [1772]
Call Number
Book 524 1772
Author
Howard, Gorges Edmond,
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed for Elizabeth Lynch,
Date of Publication
MCCDLXXII [1772]
Physical Description
xxix, [1], 326, [2], 4 pages ; 8vo
Notes
The "e" of "practice" in the title in some copies has printed in such a way that it looks a "l."
The last three leaves contain errata and an appendix.
A supplement was issued in 1774: 'A supplement to the rules and practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, lately published.'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 524 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with A supplement to the rules and practice of the high court of Chancery in Ireland.
Subjects
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Full leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 524 1772
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Observations on the more ancient statutes from Magna Charta to the twenty-first of James I. cap. XXVII. : With an appendix, being a proposal for new modelling the statutes

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Author
Barrington, Daines,
Edition
The fourth edition.
Date of Publication
1775.
Call Number
Book 646 1775
Responsibility
by the Honourable Daines Barrington ...
Author
Barrington, Daines,
Edition
The fourth edition.
Place of Publication
London : and B. White, at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street
Publisher
Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : And sold by S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York-Street ;
Date of Publication
1775.
Physical Description
xii, 578 pages ; 29 cm (4to)
Notes
With an index.
Pages ix-xii contain 'contents'.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 646 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC,
Subjects
England.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Bowyer, William,
Nichols, John,
Baker, Samuel,
Leigh, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 646 1775
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Reports of that reverend and learned judge Sir Humphry Winch, Knight, sometimes one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas : containing many choice cases and excellent matters touching declarations, pleadings, demurrers, judgements, and resolutions in points of law, in the foure last years of the raign of King James

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Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas,
Date of Publication
1657.
Call Number
Book 743 1657
Responsibility
faithfully translated out of an exact French copie, with two alphabetical and necessary tables, the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters contained in this book.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleetstreet,
Date of Publication
1657.
Physical Description
[8], 125, [11] p. ; 28 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: A-S⁴ (S4 blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at the top of title page.
Book number 743 as assinged by Yeates.
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)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Winch, Humphrey,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 743 1657
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Reports of divers resolutions in lavv : arising upon cases in the Court of Wards and other courts at Westminster, in the reigns of the late kings, King James and King Charles

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Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Wards and Liveries.
Date of Publication
1659.
Call Number
Book 747 1659
Alternate Title
Reports of divers resolutions in law
Responsibility
collected by the Right Honorable Sir James Ley, Knight and Baronet, Earl of Marlborough, &c. whilst he was attorney of the Courts of Wards and Liveries, and now published for the common good, according to His Lordships manuscript ; with two exact tables, the one of the cases, and the other of the principal matters therein contained.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Wards and Liveries.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring, and Jo. Place, and are to be sold at their shops ...,
Date of Publication
1659.
Physical Description
[4], 83, [9], 27, [1] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-2A² A-*G².
"Instructions for our Master of our Wards and Liveries, for the better authorizing and directing of him in the execution of his office, and performance of our service": p. 1-2 at end.
"A learned treatise concerning VVards & Liveries; written by the Right Honourable, Sir James Ley ...": p. 3-27 at end.
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. On the title page verso is biographical information on Ley, possibly (according to Sowerby) in the hand of John Randolph.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page and at top of front flyleaf..
Book number 747 as assigned by Yeates.
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.
Land tenure - England - Early works to 1800.
Land tenure
Law reports, digests, etc.
England.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Marlborough, James Ley,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 747 1659
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The reports of that reverend and learned judge, Sir Richard Hutton, Knight, sometimes one of the judges of the Common Pleas : containing many choice cases, judgments, and resolutions, in points of law in the severall raignes of King James and King Charles

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Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas,
Date of Publication
1656.
Call Number
Book 750 1656
Responsibility
being written in French by his owne hand, and now faithfully translated into English according to order.
Corporate Author
England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by T.R. for Henry Twyford and Thomas Dring, and are to be sold at their shops ...,
Date of Publication
1656.
Physical Description
[12], 136, [8] p. ; 29 cm (fol.)
Notes
Wing identifies the printer as Thomas Roycroft.
Signatures: pi² a-b² B-2O²
Includes index.
Errata: p. [7] at end.
LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 750 as assigned by Yeates.
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)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Hutton, Richard,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 750 1656
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Reports and cases [King's Bench and Common Pleas] taken in the time of Queen Elizabeth; King James, and King Charles [1559-1649]

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1656.
Call Number
Book 752 1656
Responsibility
collected and reported by that learned lawyer William Noy ... Containing most excellent matter of exceptions to all manner of declarations, pleadings, and demurrers, that there is scarce one action in a probability of being brought, but here it is throughly examin'd and exactly layd. Now tr. into English. With two necessary tables of the cases and the contents, for the readers ease and benefit.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by F.L. for Matthew Walbancke and T. Firby,
Date of Publication
1656.
Physical Description
10 preliminary leaves, 185 pages 27 cm
Notes
Paging irregular.
Initials; printer's ornaments.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates signature at top of title page with struck signatures of two former owners.
Book number 752 as assigned by Yeates.
Two notes on back of flyleaf cite the authority of the book.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full-blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Additional Author
Noy, William,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 752 1656
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Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield from Andrew Stuart, Esq

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Author
Stuart, Andrew,
Date of Publication
printed in the month of January, 1773.
Call Number
Book 664 1773
Author
Stuart, Andrew,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
[s.n.],
Date of Publication
printed in the month of January, 1773.
Physical Description
[2], 39, [1], 64, 47, [1], 47, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Notes
On the conduct of Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, in the Douglas case, concerning the claim of Archibald Douglas as heir to tailzie to his uncle, Archibald, Duke of Douglas.
Signatures: [A]1 B-2C⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page; signature of original owner removed.
Book number 662 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
Letters refering to the Douglas Peerage case.
Subjects
Mansfield, William Murray, - Earl of, - 1705-1793.
Hamilton, James George Hamilton, - Duke of, - 1755-1769
Douglas of Douglas, Archibald Douglas, - Baron, - 1748-1827
Mansfield, William Murray, - Earl of, - 1705-1793
Trials, litigation, etc.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Mansfield, William Murray,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 664 1773
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