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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
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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
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Title
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Object ID
MG0061
Date Range
1670-1985
Collection
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Title
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers
Description
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
Date Range
1670-1985
Creation Date
mid-20th century-1985
Year Range From
1670
Year Range To
1985
Creator
Dyke, Samuel Eugene, 1900-1985
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 02
People
Armstrong, John
Atherton, Cornelius
Atkins, Wyatt
Beck, John Philip
Berry, Peter
Breitenhard, Johann Christoph
Brown, Parker B.
Buchele, William M.
Corridon, Raymond R.
Dobson, Thomas
Dubbs, Jacob
Dyke, Samuel Eugene
Fetter, George
Feder, George
Fondersmith, John
Grancsay, Steven V.
Grove, S.
Grubb, Peter
Hawkins, Henry
Henry, William
Hoff, H. Bare
Kendig, Joe, Jr.
Kuntz, Jacob
Kuntz, Peter
Landis, George
Landis, Henry
Lehn, Joseph
Lincoln, Abraham
Magee, D. F.
Manger, Henry
Meyhardt, Peter
Pennypacker, A. J.
Sprecher, Peter
Walker, Joseph E.
Yeates, Jasper
Subjects
Armstrong Cork Company
Gunsmiths
Kentucky rifle
Cabinetmakers
Clocks and watches
Search Terms
Armstrong Cork Company
Booklets
Cabinetmakers
Clocks and watches
Conrad Weiser State Park
Correspondence
Flintlock Rifles
Gunsmiths
Halbach Pistols
Harpers Ferry Arsenal and Armory
Hopewell Forge
Kentucky Match Rifle
Kentucky rifles
Kentucky Rifle Association
Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee
Malsh Pistols
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pamphlets
Pennsylvania Rifles
Rotary International
Pennsylvania Deithsch Eck
World War II
Extent
6 boxes, 113 folders, 4.25 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0061
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
Photograph Collection
Access Conditions / Restrictions
No restrictions.
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
Samuel E. Dyke Collection of Papers (MG-61), Folder #, LancasterHistory.org
Other Numbers
MG-61
Classification
MG0061
Description Level
Fonds
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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
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, Catherine Yeates, Jasper Yeates, Jasper, Jr. Yeates, John , Sr
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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.
Documents
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Brownlow Latinè 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: pi² a¹ B-2K⁴ 2L² 3A-3S⁴ 3T-4G².
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
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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
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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: *⁴, A-G⁸, H⁶ (*₂₃ incorreclty signed *₁₋₂; *₄, 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
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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: A⁴ a⁴ B-2N⁴.
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
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D. Justiniani, sacratissimi principis, Institutionum, sive Elementorum libri quatuor : notis perpetuis multo, quam hucusque, diligentius illustrati

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Edition
Editio postrema /
Date of Publication
1690.
Call Number
Book 236 1690
Alternate Title
Institutionum, sive Elementorum libri quatuor
Elementorum libri quatuor
D. Iustiniani, ss. principis, Institutionum libri quatuor
Responsibility
cura & studio Arnoldi Vinnii J.C.
Edition
Editio postrema /
Place of Publication
Amstelodami
Publisher
Ex officina Henrici & Viduae Theodori Boom,
Date of Publication
1690.
Physical Description
[20], 484 pages ; 16 cm (12mo)
Notes
Signatures: *¹⁰ A-V¹² X².
Printer's device on t.p., initials.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page in another hand.
Book 236 as assigned by Yeates.
Some underlining in red pencil and handwritten marginal notes.
Subjects
Roman law.
Full sheep.
Title on spine.
Additional Author
Vinnius, Arnoldus,
Boom, Hendrick,
Weduwe van Theodore Boom.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow.
Additional Title
Glasgow collection of Continental legal literature.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 236 1690
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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]⁴ B-2P⁸ 2Q⁴ 2R-2U⁸.
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
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