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The whole proceedings on the trial of an information exhibited ex officio by the king's attorney-general against Thomas Paine : for a libel upon the revolution and settlement of the crown and regal government as by law established : and also upon the bill of rights, the legislature, government, laws, and parliament of this kingdom, and upon the king : tried by a special jury in the court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1792, before the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon

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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Call Number
Book 606 1793
Responsibility
taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.
Author
Paine, Thomas,
Uniform Title
Trial of Thomas Paine
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Sold by Martha Gurney, no. 128, Holborn-Hill,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description
196, [4] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Below imprint in parentheses: Price three shillings and sixpence; belox price in square brackets: entered at Stationers' Hall.
Signatures: B-G⁸ H⁴ I-K⁸ L⁴ M² N⁸ O⁴ Q⁸ R⁴ chi².
Pages [1]-[4] at end: publisher's advertisements ("The following trials are published from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes").
Erratum on page 196.
Handwritten contents on front flyleaf.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 606 as assigned by Yeates.
English short title catalogue,
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,
Summary
First edition of this work on the proceedings directed against the second part of Rights of man. The speeches of the attorney-general (Sir Archibald Macdonald) and of Mr. Erskine, counsel for the defendant, are given in full.
Subjects
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809 - Trials, litigation, etc.
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809.
Trials (Seditious libel) - England - London.
Freedom of the press - Great Britain.
Seditious libel - Great Britain.
Freedom of the press.
Seditious libel.
Trials (Seditious libel)
England - London.
Great Britain.
Publishers' advertisements - England - 18th century.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Macdonald, Archibald,
Erskine, Thomas Erskine,
Gurney, Joseph,
Gurney,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 606 1793
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Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; from Hilary term, the 14th of George III, 1774, to Trinity term, the 18th of George III, 1778, (both inclusive.)

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1784.
Call Number
Book 949 1784
Responsibility
By Henry Cowper ...
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
E. Lynch
Date of Publication
1784.
Physical Description
iv, [7], 846, [44] pages 22 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 949 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Cowper, Henry,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 949 1784
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Law miscellanies: containing an introduction to the study of the law : notes on Blackstone's Commentaries, shewing the variations of the law of Pennsylvania from the law of England, and what acts of Assembly might require to be repealed or modified; observations on Smith's edition of the laws of Pennsylvania; strictures on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and on certain acts of Congress, with some law cases, and a variety of other matters, chiefly original

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Author
Brackenridge, H. H.
Date of Publication
1814.
Call Number
Book 264 1814
Responsibility
by Hugh Henry Brackenridge.
Author
Brackenridge, H. H.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
P. Byrne,
Date of Publication
1814.
Physical Description
579 pages ; 23 cm
Notes
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 264 as assigned by Yeates.
Memorandum as to errata of this publication on back of page 579.
Subjects
Blackstone, William, - 1723-1780.
Law - Pennsylvania.
Law - Great Britain.
Law.
Great Britain.
Pennsylvania.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Smith, Charles,
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 264 1814
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An interesting appendix to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England : containing, I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters. II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks. III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply. IV. The case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of law. V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his Exposition of the Act of Toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries on the laws of England. VI. Authentic copies of the argument of the late Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of Judges Delegates, and of the speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of Lords, in the cause between the City of London and the dissenters

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Date of Publication
1772.
Call Number
Book 950 1772
Place of Publication
America
Publisher
Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell ..., Philadelphia,
Date of Publication
1772.
Physical Description
[4], iv, [1], 6-119, [1], xii, 155, [1] p. ; 24 cm. (4to)
Notes
Also issued in the same year in an octavo edition.
Signatures: pi⁶ B⁸ D-F⁴ [G]⁴ H-2M⁴.
Part I-V have special t.p.; t.p. for V is dated 1773.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 950 as assigned by Yeaetes.
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Eller
Evans
Contents
I. Priestley's Remarks on some paragraphs in the 4th vol. of Blackstone's Commentaries, relating to the dissenters.--II. Blackstone's Reply to Priestley's Remarks.--III. Priestley's Answer to Blackstone's Reply.--IV. The case of the late election of the county or Middlesex considered on the principles of the constitution and the authorities of law.--V. Furneaux's Letters to the Hon. Mr. Justice Blackstone concerning his exposition of the Act of toleration, and some positions relative to religious liberty, in his celebrated Commentaries.--VI. Authentic copies of the Argument of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Foster in the Court of judges delegates, and of the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Mansfield in the House of lords, in the cause between the city of London and the dissenters.
Subjects
Great Britain. - Parliament - Elections.
Great Britain. - Parliament.
Dissenters, Religious - England - Early works to 1800.
Law - Great Britain.
Dissenters, Religious.
Elections.
Law.
England.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Prospectuses - Great Britain - 18th century.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Foster, Michael,
Mansfield, William Murray,
Blackstone, William,
Furneaux, Philip,
Priestley, Joseph,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Title
Case of the late election of the county of Middlesex considered on the principles of the Constitution and the authorities of the law.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 950 1772
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A series of the decisions of The Court of King's Bench upon settlement-cases ; from The Death of Lord Raymond in March 1732: To which is Added A Complete Abridgment of the Substance of each Case, and two Tables of the Names of them. Published for the Use of Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace, and of Barristers and others attending the Quarter-Sessions. By James Burrow, Esq ; Master of the Crown-Office, and one of the Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

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Author
Burrow, James,
Date of Publication
M DCC LXVIII. [1768]
Call Number
Book 650 1768
Book 651 1768
Author
Burrow, James,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, For J. Worrall and B. Tovey, at the Dove, in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn,
Date of Publication
M DCC LXVIII. [1768]
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 27 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: Containing near Fifteen Years, and including Lord Chief Justice Ryder's Time and the first Twelve Years of Lord Mansfield's. To this Volume is added an index to both Volumes. And there are also subjoined A few thoughts upon pointing and some other Helps towards perspicuity of expression.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 650 and 651 as assigned by Yeates.
Bookplate removed from vol. 1; bookplate of Godfrey Lill, Esq. his Majestys Solicitor Gen. of Ireland in vol 2.
ESTC,
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Label)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Lill, Godfrey.
Place
Great Britain England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 650 1768
Book 651 1768
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The English pleader : being a select collection of various precedents of declarations of actions brought in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas at Westminster, in case, debt, covenant, trespass and assault, ejectment, replevin, prohibition, &c. : taken from the Rolls of the treasury of the said courts, and forms settled by counsel and special pleaders, since the commencement of the act of Parliament for the laws being in the English language, and is the only book approv'd of for authentick precedents : to which are added, the forms of pleas and issues both general and special, with replications thereto, and also judgments in both courts on the several actions, and likewise forms and precedents of recoveries and concords of fines with a method of suffering and passing the same

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Author
Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.
Date of Publication
1738.
Call Number
Book 1034 1738
Responsibility
by a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.
Author
Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.
Place of Publication
Dublin
Publisher
Printed by J. Hoey,
Date of Publication
1738.
Physical Description
400, [18] pages : forms ; 20 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 1034 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Pleading - Great Britain.
Pleading - Great Britain - Forms.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Blank forms.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 1034 1738
Less detail

A general history of England : from the invasion of the Romans under Julius C©Œsar, to the late revolution in MDCLXXXVIII. Including the histories of neighbouring people and states, so far as they are connected with that of England. To which are added, five dissertations ; I. Upon the dark and faboulous ages of the British history ... II. Upon the great revolution of the English governement under Egbert, about the year 828, and its concurrent causes ... III. Upon the indipendency of the Crown of Scotland. IV. Concerning the Norman engraftments upon the English laws and governement. V. Concerning the alienation and accession of property, with the great effects they have had upon our Constitution since the reign of Henry VIII

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Author
Guthrie, William,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Call Number
Book 7, 1751
Book 6, 1747
Book 5, 1744
Responsibility
by William Guthrie ...
Author
Guthrie, William,
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street.,
Date of Publication
M DCC XLIV. [-M DCC LI.]
Physical Description
3 volumes : maps, portraits ; folio.
Notes
Pagination: v.1: [2], iv, 962, [30] p., [5], 10 leaves of plates; v.2: [4], 1130, [22] p., 11 leaves of plates; v.3: [2], 1396, [12] p., 5 leaves of plates.
Title pages printed in red and black.
Printed marginalia.
Text printed in double columns.
V. 1 has imprint: 'London: printed by Daniel Browne, for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLIV.'; v.2 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Crown and Mitre, opposite to Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC XLVII.'; v.3 has imprint: 'London: printed for T. Waller, at the Mitre and Crown, opposite Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-Street., M DCC LI.'
V.2 has title: A general history of England, beginning with the reign of Edward the Second, and ending with that of Henry the Eighth.
V.3 has title: A general history of England, from Edward the Sixth to the restoration of King Charles the Second. With a summary of public affairs from the restoration to the time of the revolution, digested in annals.
Published in parts.
'Proposals for printing the third and last volume' was issued on 7 November 1747.
Jasper Yeate's Colonial Law Library.
Book numbers 5, 6, and 7 as arranged by Yeates.
Signature of Yeates at top of title page.
Includes index at the end of each volume.
ESTC,
Full leather binding gold tooled around perimeters and figured gold tooling on edges of covers; spines strengthened by leather strips.
Subjects
Great Britain - History.
Great Britain.
History.
Additional Author
Browne, Daniel,
Waller, T.,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 7, 1751
Book 6, 1747
Book 5, 1744
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The present practice of the Court of King's Bench : containing ample and complete instructions for commencing and defending the various kinds of suits and actions, entering up judgement, suing out execution, proceeding in error from the King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and Parliament, &c., and calculated not only to guide the attorney in the course of his practice in cases already settled, but also by pointing out the rise and ground of the various proceedings, and the several cases in each already adjudged, to enable him by analogy to conduct any new matters that may occur : containing rules of court down to Michaelmas Term, 1784, and enriched with a number of very curious and special precedents of the various writs, pleadings, entries, &c. in use in the Court of King's Bench : and particularly of declarations, a great number of which are very special, and settled by the most eminent pleaders : to which is added a complete index

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Author
Sheridan, John.
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Call Number
Book 985 1785
Responsibility
by John Sheridan ... ; with the assistance of other gentlemen of the law.
Author
Sheridan, John.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Flexney ... and J. Walker ...,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description
[3], 16-614, [18] p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: pi² D-2Z⁴ ²2A-²2Z⁴ 3A-3K⁴.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 985 as assigned by Yeates.
ESTC
Subjects
Courts - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Civil procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Criminal procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Court rules - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Pleading - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Courts
Civil procedure.
Court rules.
Criminal procedure.
Pleading.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 985 1785
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The second part of symboleography, : newly corrected and amended, and very much enlarged in all the foure severall treatises. 1 Of fines and concords. 2 Of common recoveries. 3 Of offences and indictments. 4 Of compromises and arbitrements. Whereunto is annexed another treatise of equitie: the iurisdiction, and proceedings of the high Court of Chauncerie; of supplications, bils, and answers, and of certaine writs and commissions issuing thence, and there also returnable: likewise much augmented with divers presidents, for the same purpose, beginning at the 144. section, and continuing to the end of bils and answers. With an addition of some necessary exemplars to be used in His Majesties Court of Exchequer, wards and liveries, and Starre-Chamber. Hereunto is also added a table for the more easie and readie finding of the matters, herein contained

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Author
West, William,
Date of Publication
1641.
Call Number
Yeates Book 80 1641
Author
West, William,
Uniform Title
Second part of symboleography
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by Miles Flesher and Robert Young.,
Date of Publication
1641.
Physical Description
[2], 350, [8] leaves ; 22.5 cm. (4to)
Notes
With Latin mottoes and tail piece below title.
"Cum privilegio."--Foot of title page.
Dedicatory letter (in Latin) to Sir Edward Coke, dated 1594, signed: William West.
Collation: [par]² A-2X⁸ 2Y⁶ [$4 signed].
Numerous errors in foliation: leaves 24, 35, 52, 62 numbered 21, 37, 51, 64; leaves 144, 163, 165, 216, 256, 259 numbered 146, 136, 146, 215, 255, 258; leaves 284, 286, 287, 288 numbered 286, 284, 293, 286; leaves 298, 299-302, 303-304, 336, 349 numbered 283, 281-284, 284-285, 320, 394.
In black letter and Roman type; some italic type.
Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.
Marginal section notations.
Includes index.
"The first printed systematic treatise on the writing of legal instruments, including not only precedents in conveyancing but also of indictments and proceedings in chancery ... drawing upon civilian and continental scholarship."--Oxford DNB.
Symbolaeographia, a work in in four books, was first printed in 1590 by Richard Tottel (STC 25267). It was revised in two parts, "Symbolaeography ... the first part" (STC 25267.5) in 1592, and "The second part of symboleography" (STC 25276.3) in 1593. Both parts were subsequently issued, separately, in numerous later editions.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 80 as assigned by Yeates.
Some handwritten notes in margins.
Wing (2nd ed.)
Linen over boards with gilt title on maroon label.
Subjects
Legal instruments - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Equity pleading and procedure - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Forms (Law) - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Conveyancing.
Equity pleading and procedure.
Forms (Law)
Legal instruments.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Quarto format (Printing) - England - London - 1641.
Black letter types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.
Roman types (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.
Tail-pieces (Type evidence) - England - London - 1641.
Additional Author
Flesher, Miles,
Young, Robert,
Yeates, Jasper,
Place
England London.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Yeates Book 80 1641
Less detail

Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the King's courts at Westminster, in two parts. Part I. Containing cases in the Court of King's Bench, &c. beginning in Hilary term in the 16th year of the reign of King George the Second, and ending in Hilary term in the 26th. Part II. Containg cases in the Court of Common Pleas, &c. beginning in Hilary term of the 26th year of the reign of King George the Second, and ending in Trinity term in the 9th year of his present Majesty King George the Third

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Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Date of Publication
1770.
1775.
Call Number
Book 151 1774
Book 150 1770
Alternate Title
Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas ... From Michaelmas term in the 10th year of King George the Third 1769, until Easter term in the 14th year of his reign 1774 ...
Responsibility
by George Wilson, Serjeant at Law. With tables of the principal matters, names of the cases contained in both parts ; and some account of the Lords the Judges, serjeants at law, and most eminent counsel attending the bar during that time.
Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, for the Author ; and sold by J. Worrall, and B. Tovey,
Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, for the Author ; and sold by P. Uriel, and B. Tovey,
Date of Publication
1770.
1775.
Physical Description
3 volumes in 2 (342, 424, 564 pages) ; 32 cm
Notes
Part 3 entitled: Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas ... From Michaelmas term in the 10th year of King George the Third 1769, until Easter term in the 14th year of his reign 1774 ...
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page above struck name of former owner.
Book numbers 150-151 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law reports, digests, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800.
Law reports, digests, etc.
Great Britain.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Wilson, George,
Yeates, Jasper,
Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,
Additional Corporate Author
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 151 1774
Book 150 1770
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