A CATALOGUE OF THE Common and Statute LAW-BOOKS OF THIS REALM And some others relating thereunto Alphabetically digested under proper HEADS WITH An Account of the best Editions Volumes and common Prices they are now sold at Collected by Tho. Bassett And are to be sold at his Shop at the George near Cliffords-Inne in Fleet street 1671. TO THE READER FOR several Years last past having traded in Books it has often happened that I have been at a loss when by Gentlemen either whose Profession induced or their Curiosity inclined them to buy Books on that Subject an Account hath been demanded of me of all the Law-Books extant Now for avoiding the trouble which for the future I and other Book-sellers might undergo in such case but more especially for satisfaction of those who are desirous to be informed therein I have collected the ensuing Catalogue whereby the Reader will be informed of all the Law-Books now Extant which directly or more remotely concern the Common and Statute Law of this Realm and of the best Editions and Prices c. of the same In doing of which I had the kind assistance of some Gentlemen of the Profession of Law To do a thing first and to do it perfectly is more than perhaps any has as yet pretended to and therefore this Printed Catalogue may well be capable of amendment or additions at least and being conscious of it I have left blanks at the end of each Title that what is omitted here by me and occurs to others may be added in their proper Places And to the end those into whose hands this Catalogue shall come may have it more and more perfect if they please to have recourse to me I shall afford them my assistance therein and in the mean time Collect and Insert in a Catalogue I keep by me for that purpose all Books which upon farther search and others Information I find omitted and also those that shall be hereafter Published Besides the encouragement I had from some to whom I imparted my intentions concerning this Catalogue when it was only in design and the inducements I touched before I apprehended that by this Collection some advantage would redound to such as living remote from London are by specious Titles trepann'd into the buying of some Law-Books before they are assured whither in truth the Discourse tends which how frequently it happens experience sufficiently convinces The Method I have vsed and the placing Books under the Titles I have disposed them may probably be disliked by some however the Catalogue not being very long the whole may be soon read over which will cure that Fault And the ends I aim at will I hope excuse the attempt and my Errors in the performance of it Tho. Bassett A TABLE of the Titles in the ensuing Catalogue ABridgments Page 1 Arguments Page 11 Constables Page 15 Courts Page 18 Crown Page 27 Customs Page 30 Interpreters of Law Terms Page 33 Justice of Peace Page 37 Maxims and Grounds of the Law Page 42 Parliament Page 46 Presidents Page 50 Readings Page 61 Reports Page 64 Sheriffs Page 80 Statutes Page 82 Tables Page 85 Tithes c. Page 88 Wills and Testaments Page 90 Of Writs Page 92 Miscellanies Page 94. c. ADVERTISEMENT I Desire the Reader to take Notice That all Books in this Catalogue not said to be in another Language are in English And also that I have mentioned none but the best Editions and that there is no difference in the Editions though some have been often Printed but where this Mark * is prefixed Licensed Octob. 13. 1670. Roger L'Estrange ABRIDGMENTS AN Abridgment of the Book of Assizes in Octavo French Price 1 s. 6 d. * An Abridgment of the Common Law contained in the Year Books and other Books of Law Readings and Records Collected and written by Sir Robert Brook Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Bench in the time of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth This Book hath been printed in three several Volumes but no Addition to either of them the least esteemed best is in Quarto Price 45 s. The next is in small Folio Price 40 s. And the other in large Folio Price 35 s. All three in French Some New Cases of the Years and Time of King Hen. 8. Edw. 6. Queen Mary Written out of the great Abridgment of Sir Robert Brook in Octavo French Price 1 s. 6 d. The same is also Translated into English by Iohn Marsh in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. An Exact Abridgment of the Records of the Tower of London from the Reign of King Edward the Second unto King Richard the 3 of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings Reign the several Acts in every Parliament together with the Names and Titles of all the Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts and Barons summoned to every of the said Parliaments Collected by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronet Revised and Published by Wil. Prynne Esq in Folio Price 20 s. * A brief Summary of the Laws and Statutes of England to the Year 1663. So far forth as the same do concern the Office of Justices of the Peace Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables and Churchwardens and other Officers and Ministers of this Kingdome Together with divers other Matters necessary for such as bear Office in this Kingdom the Fourth Impression Collected by Nicholas Collyn of Lincolns-Inne Esquire in Twelves Price 1 s. A Perfect Abridgment of the Eleven Books of Reports of Sir Edward Coke Knight by Sir Iohn Davis sometime Attorney General in Ireland in Twelves Price 2 s. Synopsis or an Exact Abridgment of the Lord Cokes Commentaries upon Littleton being a brief Explanation of the Grounds of the Law Composed by Sir Humphrey Davenport Knight in Octavo Price 2 s. 6 d. An Exact Abridgment of that excellent Treatise called Doctor and Student in Octavo Price 1 s. The Office and Authority of Sheriffs Abridged by the former Author Mich. Dalton of Lincolns-Inne Esquire in Octavo Price 3 s. An Abridgment of the Reports of Sir Iames Dyer in Octavo French Price 2 s. 6 d. The same is Translated into English in Octavo Price 2 s. * An Abridgment of the Common Law contained in the Year Books and other Books of Law Readings and Records Collected and Written by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the Reign of King Hen. the 8th in Quarto French Price 3 l. 5 s. The Common Law Epitomiz'd with Directions how to prosecute and defend Personal Actions To which is Annexed the Nature of a Writ of Errour and the general Proceedings thereupon by W. Gâ—isson and A. Gulston Esquires in Octavo Price 3 s. Gregory's Moot-Book being an Abridgment of Cases concerning the Titles most material for the Students and Practitioners of the Laws of the Realm digested in certain apt Divisions under the same Titles in Octavo French Price 10 s. The same is also Translated into English and much inlarged by William Hughes of Grayes-Inne Esquire in Quarto Price
Attachments and Sequestrations with Fees c. in Twelves Price 8 d. The Court-Keepers Guide A useful Treatise for the help of keeping Law-daies or Court Baron shewing the Jurisdiction of their Courts with the learning of Mannors Copy-holds Rents Harriots c. by W. Sheppard Esquire in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. A Survey of the County Iudicatures commonly called the County Court and Court Baron Wherein the Nature and Use of them and the Way and Order of keeping them is opened by W. Sheppard Esquire in Octavo Price 1 s. Star-Chamber Cases shewing what Causes properly belong to the Cognizance of that Court Collected for the most part out of Mr. Cromptons Book of the Iurisdiction of Courts in Quarto Price 8 d. Transactions of the High Court of Chancery both by Practice and President with Fees and special Orders in extraordinary Cases by Will. Tothill Esquire and Revived by Sir Rob. Holborne late Bencher of Lincolns-Inne in Octavo Price 2 s. Considerations for regulating the Exchequer in the more timely answering better husbanding and more orderly and safe conduct of the Revenues of the Crown into his Majesties Coffers as hath been heretofore used by Sheriffs And for freeing the Subject from all unjust vexations concerning the same With the Causes and Remedies of the inconveniencies which have been occasioned by the breach of the Laws and antient course of the Exchequer per C. Vernon de Saccario Dom. Regis in Octavo Price 1 s. The Iurisdiction of the Admiralty of England asserted against Sir Edward Coke's Articuli Admiralitatis in 22. Chapter of his Iurisdiction of Courts by Rich. Zouch Doctor of the Civil Laws and late Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. CROWN * PLeas of the Crown divided into several Titles and Common-places to which is added an Exposition of the Kings Prerogative collected out of the Abridgement of Fitzherbert and other old Writers of the Laws of England by the Reverend Judge Sir William Stamford Knight in Quarto French Price 6 s. * The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England concerning High-Treason and other Pleas of the Crown and criminal Causes The Fourth Edition To which is added a Table by Sir Edward Coke Knight in Folio Price 6 s. De Pace Regis Regni viz. A Treatise declaring which be the great and general Offences of the Realm and the chief Impediments of the Peace of the King and Kingdom as Treasons Homicides and Felonies c. and how many and what sorts of them there be and by whom and what means the said Offences and the Offenders therein are to be restrained repressed or punished Collected out of the Common and Statute Law of the Realm by Ferdinando Pulton of Lincolns-Inne Esquire in Folio Price 10 s. The Rights of the Crown of England as it is established by Law by Edward Bagshaw Esquire in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. CUSTOMS * REports of special Cases of the Liberties antient Customs and Vsages of the City of London by Sir H. Calthrop somtimes Recorder thereof c. in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. The City Law shewing the Customs Franchises Liberties Priviledges and Immunities of the famous City of London Together with the Name Natures Kinds Jurisdictions Powers and Proceedings of the several Courts within the same in Octavo Price 1 s. The Customs of Normandy in Folio Price 20 s. * The Perambulation of Kent containing the Description History and Customs of that County Written by William Lambard of Lincolns-Inne Corrected and Enlarged To which is added the Charters Laws and Priviledges of the Cinque Ports in Octavo Price 6 s. A Treatise of Gavelkind both Name and Thing shewing the true Etymologie and Derivation of the one the Nature Antiquity and Original of the other with sundry emergent Observations by William Somner in Quarto Price 2 s. 6 d. The History of Gavelkind with the Etymologie thereof containing a Vindication of the Laws of England Together with a short History of William the Conquerour by Silas Taylor Gent. in Quarto Price 3 s. INTERPRETERS OF Law Termes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Law Dictionary Interpreting such difficult and obscure Words and Terms as are found either in our Common or Statute Antient or Modern Laws with References of the several Statutes Records Registers Law-Books Charters Antient Deeds and Manuscripts wherein the words are used and Etymologies where they properly occur by Tho. Blount of the Inner Temple Esquire in Folio Price 8 s. The Interpreter Containing the Signification of Words Wherein is set forth the true meaning of all or the most part of such Words and Termes as are mentioned in the Law-Writers and Statutes of this Kingdome requiring any Exposition or Interpretation Collected by Iohn Cowell Doctor somtime the Kings Professor of the Civil Law im Cambridge in Folio Price 6 s. This Book is reprinting with Additions * A Philological Commentary or An Illustration of the most obvious and useful Words in the Law with their Distinctions and divers Acceptations as they are found as well in Reports Antient and Modern as in Records and Memorials never printed The Second Edition Reviewed and Inlarged by Edward Leigh Gent. sometimes of the Middle Temple in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. * Sir Henry Spelmans Glossary containing Barbarous Latine foreign obsolete and adopted Termes which after Europe was over-run by the inundation of Gothes and Vandals were introduced in Ecclesiastical and Prophane Writers and also those which occur in the antient Municipial Laws Charters and Instruments of divers Nations Illustrated with Glosses and Commentaries in which are declared many antient Rites Magistracies Dignities Charges Offices Manners Lawes themselves and Customs in Folio Latine Price 30 s. De Verborum Significatione the Exposition of the Termes and difficil words contained in the four Books of Regiam Majestatem and others in the Acts of Parliament Infeftments and used in practique of this Realm and with divers Rules and Common Places or Principals of the Laws Collected and Expounded by Mr. Iohn Skene Clerk of our Soveraign Lord's Register Councel and Rolls in Quarto Price 2 s. 6 d. * The Termes of the Law or certain difficult and obscure Words and Termes of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm now in use Expounded and Explained newly Corrected and Enlarged With an Addition of above one hundred Words by T. B. Esquire in Octavo French and English Price 4 s. Justice of Peace BOlton of the Office of a Iustice of Peace in Ireland in Folio Price 20 s. * The Compleat Iustice being an exact and compendious Collection out of such as have treated of the Office of Justices of the Peace but principally out of Mr. Lambert Mr. Crompton and Mr. Dalton Now amplified and purged from sundry Errors which were in the former Impressions Whereunto are added the Resolutions of the Judges of Assizes in the Year 1633. Together with a Compendious charge to be given at the Quarter Sessions not in print till 1661.
Sheriffs gathered out of the Statutes and Books of the Common Laws of this Kingdom Corrected and very much Enlarged by Mich. Dalton late of Lincolns-Inne Esquire and one of the Masters of the Chancery To which is added a Supplement containing a Collection of the Statutes touching Sheriffs made since Mr. Daltons writing which are in force and use at this day Several special returns of Writs and the Expositions Judgments and Resolutions of the Judges in the several Courts at Westminster upon divers Statutes Cases and Questions in Law relating to Sheriffs and several other new Matters in Folio Price 12 s. * A Treatise collected out of the Statutes of this Common-wealth and according to common Experience of the Laws concerning the Office and Authorities of Coroners and Sheriffs Together with an easie and plain Method for the keeping of a Court-Leet Court-Baron and Hundred-Court by Iohn Wilkinson of Bernards-Inne Gent. To which is added the return of Writs by Io. Kitchin Esquire in Octavo Price 2 s. 6 d. STATUTES * A Collection of all the Statutes now in use with Notes in the Margin and references to the Book Cases and Books of Entries and Registers where they be treated of together with an Abridgment of the residue which are expired repealed altered and worne out of use by Ferdinando Pulton of Lincolns-Inne Esquire with a Continuation of the Statutes made in the Reign of King Charles the First and his Majesty that now is to the last adjournment of Parliament April 11. 1670. by Tho. Manby of Lincolns-Inne Esquire in Folio Price 50 s. * The Statutes at Large containing all such Acts which at any time heretofore have been extant in Print from Magna Charta until the sixteenth year of the Reign of King James with Marginal Notes and Marks whereby the Reader may know which of the same Acts are wholly void either by Expiration or Repeal Collected by W. Rastall Esquire in two Volumes in Folio Price 30 s. The Statutes of Ireland beginning the third year of King Edward the Second and continuing until the end of the Parliament begun in the eleventh year of King James and ended in the thirteenth year of his Reign To which is added the Statutes made there in the tenth and eleventh years of King Charles the First in Folio Price 18 s. * Magna Charta with other antient and modern Statutes in Octavo Latine Price 2 s. 6 d. A Collection of several Acts of Parliament published in the years 1648. 1649. 1650. and 1651. also several Acts of Parliament made in the 17. and 18. years Reign of the late K. Charles and Ordinances touching adventurers for Ireland by H. Scobell Esquire in Folio Price 16 s. Regiam Majestatem the old Laws and Constitutions of Scotland faithfully collected forth of the Register and other old Authentick Books from the dayes of King Malcolme the Second until the time of King James the First by Sir Iohn Skene in Folio Latine Price 12 s. The same is also Translated in Scottish Language by Sir Iohn Skene in Folio Price 12 s. Tables never Printed with any BOOKS THE Promptuary or Repertory General of the Year Books and many other Books of the Common Law of England Composed by Thomas Ash of Grayes-Inne Professor of the said Law referring to the Abridgments and Books at large whereby all the said Books and Cases therein contained which concern any point coming in question either at the Common Law or upon the Exposition of any Statute and the Presidents for Forms of Pleading every several Matter may be easily found published in the twelfth year of the Reign of King Janes in two Volumes in Folio French Price 20 s. A General Table to the eleven Books of the Reports of Sir Edward Coke Knight late chief Justice of the Kings-Bench whereby all the Cases and Matters therein contained may be easily found with two Alphabetical Catalogues the one of the principal Cases the other of all the general Titles naturally arising out of the Matter of the said Reports by Tho. Ash of Grayes-Inne in Octavo French Price 7 s. The same is also Translated into English in Octavo Price 6 s. Epieiceia And a general Table to the Annal's or Year Books of Law whereby may be easily found all the Cases contained in the same which concern the Exposition of Statutes by Equity Collected by Thomas Ash of Grayes-Inne in Octavo French Price 2 s. A Table to the Reports of Sir Iames Dyer Knight late chief Justice of the Common Bench. Composed by Tho. Ash in Octavo French Price 3 s. A Table to the Annals or Year Books of Edw. 5. Rich. 3. H. 7. H. 8. by William Fleetwood Recorder of London in Twelves French Price 2 s. 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Wills and Testaments THe Touch-stone of Wills Testaments and Administrations being a Compendium of Cases and Resolutions touching the same Carefully collected out of the Ecclesiastical Civil and Canon Laws as also out of the Customs Common Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom by G. Meriton Gent. in Octavo Price 1 s. 6 d. * The Office and Duty of Executors or a Treatise of wills and Executors directed to Testators in the choice of their Executors and contrivance of their Wills with directions for Executors in the execution of