An abridgement of the three volumes of Reports of the learned Sr. George Croke, kt., of such select cases as were adjudged in the Courts of King's-Bench and Common-Bench, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First
The exact pleader : a book of entries of choice, select and special pleadings in the Court of Kings-Bench in the reign of His present Majesty King Charles II : with the method of proceeding in all manner of actions in the same court
Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires, for Christopher Wilkinson, Tho. Dring, and Charles Harper, at their shops in Fleet-Street,
Date of Publication
MDCLXXXIV [1684]
Physical Description
[24], 266 [i.e. 268], [20] p. ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: pi² a-e² B-2Lⴠ2M-2R².
Errors in paging: p. 137-140 omitted, p. 103-104, 133-136 repeated in the numbering; p. 113, 116, 214, 250 and 251 misnumbered 413, 416, 216, 242 and 243 respectively.
The first part (though last publish't) of the Reports of Sr George Croke, Kt. : late one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench and formerly one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench : of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts from the 24th to the 44th/45th of the late Queen Elizabeth
The fourth and last part of Modern reports, being a collection of several special cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King & Queen's Bench : in the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of the reigns of King William and Queen Mary, and 7th year of King William, and judgments thereupon : with several of the pleadings at large, being carefully examined by the records : and also the number-rolls of most of the other cases : very few of these cases were ever printed before
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
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: A² B-Z⸠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.),
The first edition of "La graunde abridgement"--English Short Title Catalogue.
The title "La graunde abridgement" taken from the English Short Title Catalogue.
Probably printed by John Rastell (v. 1) and Wynken De Worde (v. 2-3), beginning about 1514. Cf. Law library journal, v. 51, 1958, p. [100]-116 and ESTC. The colophon of v. 3 is dated 1516.
"Finis tocius istius op[er]is finit[us] xxi die Dicembr[is] A[nn]o d[omi]ni Millecimo qui[n]ge[n]tesimo sextodecimo"--Colophon.
Title page of vol. 1 delineates a king upon the throne with "Prima pars huius libri" printed above; vol. 2 has title page with the royal coat of arms and "Sequitur secunda pars" printed above; vol. 3 has title page with the royal coat of arms and "Ultima pars huius libri" printed above.
LC copy vol. 3 t.p. has "The price of the whole boke (.xl. s.) Whych boke conteynyth iii grete volumes," is printed below "Ultima pars huius libri."
LCHS copy lacking title page of volume 2.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title pagebelow another signature.
Book number 792 as assigned by Yeates.
"Contains a digest of all the cases in the Year-books, down to the 21 Hen. VII ... as well as cases from the reigns of Rich. II, Edw. I and II, Hen. III, and a number of readings and original authorities no where else to be found"-J.G. Marvin. Legal bibliography, 1847.
in part collect per Sir Anthonie Fitzherbert, chiualer, iades vn de les iustices del common banke ; et ore le cinque foits inlarge per Richard Crompton, vn apprentice de la common ley et imprimee lan du grace 1606 ; a que est annex loffice de viconts, bailises, escheators, constables, coroners, &c. ; collect per le dit Mounsieur Fitzherbert in part ; et auxy certaine presidents de indictments & auters choses ...
written originally in old French, long before the Conquest, and many things added by Andrew Horne ; to which is added The diversity of courts and their jurisdiction, translated into English by W.H. of Gray's Inn, Esq.
Modern cases argued and adjudged in the Court of King's-Bench at Westminster : in the reign of Her late Majesty Q. Anne, in the time when Sir John Holt sat Chief-Justice there
