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A32053 By the King. A proclamation for the speedy calling in of all sheriffes, escheators, receivers, fee-farmers, farmers of recusants lands, and all other tenants who hold of the King in capite by knights-service, to pay His Majesties duties at his exchequer at Oxford.; Proclamations. 1645-03-25. England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. aut 1645 (1645) Wing C2630; ESTC R213851 992 1 View Text
B20857 By the Protector, a proclamation giving encouragement to such as shall transplant themselves to Jamaica England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. 1655 (1655) Wing C7154 2,946 2 View Text
A78243 The case of the Commission of Array stated. 1642 (1642) Wing C1043; Thomason E123_18; ESTC R2127 3,243 7 View Text
A84297 An experimentall essay touching the reformation of the lavves of England anno 1648. By an impartiall well-willer to the peace and well-beeing of all. Impartiall well-willer to the peace and well-beeing of all. 1648 (1648) Wing E3880; Thomason E459_20; ESTC R201915 5,321 12 View Text
A34354 Considerations tovching trade, vvith the advance of the Kings revenue, and present reparation of His Maiestie containing these four heads viz. : 1 from the customes : 2 from fines and confiscations : 3 from acts of resumptions : 4 and from subsidies : humbly represented to the view of the right honourable high court of Parliament. 1641 (1641) Wing C5921; ESTC R2785 6,282 17 View Text
A74449 An act for several lands and estates forfeited to the Commonvvealth for treason, appointed to be sold for the use of the Navy. Wednesday, 4th August, 1652. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti. England and Wales. Parliament. 1652 (1652) Thomason E1061_73; ESTC R209352 6,681 15 View Text
A33901 A caution against inconsistency, or, The connexion between praying and swearing in relation to the civil powers. Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726. 1690 (1690) Wing C5246; ESTC R25349 8,520 9 View Text
A89678 The lavvyers bane. Or The lawes reformation, and new modell: vvherein the errours and corruptions both of the lawyers and of the law it selfe are manifested and declared. And also, some short and profitable considerations laid down for the redresse of them. Nicholson, Benjamin. 1647 (1647) Wing N1105; Thomason E401_36; ESTC R201804 9,501 15 View Text
A65573 The civil rights and conveniences of episcopacy with the inconvenience of presbytery asserted : as it was delivered in a charge to the grand jury at the general quarter sessions held at Nottingham Apr. 22, 1661 / by Pen. Whalley. Whalley, Penistone. 1661 (1661) Wing W1534; ESTC R27585 9,880 15 View Text
A25628 An Ansvver to this quodlibetical question, whether the bishops make a fundamental and essential part of the English Parliament collected out of some memorials in a larger treatise for the information of some, the confirmation of others, and the satisfaction of all. 1661 (1661) Wing A3454; ESTC R22861 15,455 24 View Text
A35597 The Case of a standing army army [sic] fairly and impartially stated in answer to the late History of standing armies in England, and other pamphlets on that subject. 1698 (1698) Wing C873; ESTC R3955 17,796 39 View Text
A73749 A chorologicall discourse of the vvell ordering, disposing, and gouerning of an honorable estate or reuennue Briefely describing the duties of diuers officers therein to be imployed: for the better preseruing, improuing and augmenting of the same. Together with certaine briefe and necessary tables for the valuation of leases, annuities, and purchases, either in present or in reuersion. Written by T. C. Gent.; Chorologicall discourse of the well ordering, disposing, and gouerning of an honourable estate or reuennue Clay, Thomas. 1621 (1621) STC 5371.9; ESTC S124667 19,604 66 View Text
A42127 Chorographia, or, A survey of Newcastle upon Tine the estate of this country under the Romans : the building of the famous wall of the Piets, by the Romans : the ancient town of Pandon : a briefe description of the town, walls, wards, churches, religious houses, streets, markets, fairs, river and commodities, with the suburbs : the ancient and present government of the town : as also, a relation of the county of Northumberland, which was the bulwark for England, against the introdes of the Scots : their many castles and towers : their ancient Cheviot-Hills, of Tinedale, and Reedsdale, with the inhabitants. Gray, William, fl. 1649. 1649 (1649) Wing G1975; ESTC R10141 20,120 58 View Text
A28308 Some remarks upon government, and particularly upon the establishment of the English monarchy relating to this present juncture in two letters / written by and to a member of the great convention, holden at Westminster the 22nd of January, 1689. A. B.; N. T. 1689 (1689) Wing B31; ESTC R2761 23,032 29 View Text
A51777 [An appendix to the office and duty of an executor.] Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690. 1676 (1676) Wing M442; ESTC R204050 25,140 71 View Text
A86306 The undeceiving of the people in the point of tithes: wherein is shewed, I. That never any clergy in the Church of God hath been, or is maintained with lesse charge to the subject, then the established clergy of the Church of England. II. That there is no subject in the realme of England, who giveth any thing of his own, towards the maintenance of his parish-minister, but his Easter-offering. III. That the change of tithes into stipends, will bring greater trouble to the clergy, then is yet considered; and far lesse profit to the countrey, then is now pretended. / By Ph. Treleinie Gent. Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. 1647 (1647) Wing H1741; Thomason E418_1; ESTC R204596 25,471 32 View Text
A47255 A dialogue between two friends occasioned by the late revolution of affairs, and the oath of allegiance by W.K. ... Kennett, White, 1660-1728. 1689 (1689) Wing K300; ESTC R16675 26,148 42 View Text
A63255 The triumphs of justice over unjust judges exhibiting, I. the names and crimes of four and forty judges hang'd in one year in England, as murderers for their corrupt judgments, II. the case of the Lord Chief Justice Trefilian, hang'd at Tyburn, and all the rest of the judges of England (save one) banisht in K. Rich. the 2ds time, III. the crimes of Empson and Dudley, executed in K. Henry the 8th's days, IV. the proceedings of the ship-money-judges in the reign of K. Charles the first, V. diverse other presidents both antient and modern : to which is added VI. the judges oath, and some observations thereupon, humbly dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs. Philo-Dicaios. 1681 (1681) Wing T2297; ESTC R3571 28,282 42 View Text
A22780 Institutions in the lawes of Englande cum priuilegio. 1538 (1538) STC 9290; ESTC S108752 28,451 110 View Text
A05165 The case of tenures upon the commission of defective titles argued by all the iudges of Ireland, with their resolution, and the reasons of their resolution. Santry, James Barry, Baron, 1603-1672. 1637 (1637) STC 1530; ESTC S106989 30,816 68 View Text
A66906 Two treatises the first proving both by history & record that the bishops are a fundamental & essential part of our English Parliament : the second that they may be judges in capital cases. Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685. 1680 (1680) Wing W3355; ESTC R34097 35,441 39 View Text
A26147 A treatise of the true and ancient jurisdiction of the House of Peers by Sir Robert Atkyns ... Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709. 1699 (1699) Wing A4144; ESTC R31568 35,905 42 View Text
A17593 The relation betweene the lord of a mannor and the coppy-holder his tenant. Delivered in the learned readings of the late excellent and famous lawyer, Char. Calthrope of the Honorable Society of Lincolnes-Inne Esq; whereby it doth appeare for what causes a coppy-holder may forfeite his coppy-hold estate, and for what not; and like wise what lord can grant a coppy, and to whom. Published for the good of the lords of mannors, and their tenants Calthrope, Charles, Sir, d. 1616. 1635 (1635) STC 4369; ESTC S107474 36,082 104 View Text
A54688 Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite and by knight-service, which being ancient and long before the conquest were not then, or are now, any slavery, publick or general grievence with some expedients humbly offered for the prevention thereof / by Fabian Philipps. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1661 (1661) Wing P2010; ESTC R7943 37,109 71 View Text
A51987 A learned treatise concerning wards and liveries written by the Right Honourable and learned gentleman St. James Ley, Knight and Baronet, Earle of Marlebrough ... Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1618-1665. 1642 (1642) Wing M687; ESTC R1067 38,531 94 View Text
A77858 An humble examination of a printed abstract of the answers to nine reasons of the House of Commons, against the votes of bishops in Parliament. Printed by order of a committee of the honourable House of Commons, now assembled in Parliament. Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665. 1641 (1641) Wing B5672; Thomason E164_14; ESTC R21636 38,831 83 View Text
A13742 The ioiefull and blessed reuniting the two mighty & famous kingdomes, England & Scotland into their ancient name of great Brittaine. By John Bristoll Thornborough, John, 1551-1641. 1605 (1605) STC 24036; ESTC S118409 39,081 92 View Text
A44187 A letter of a gentleman to his friend, shewing that the bishops are not to be judges in Parliament in cases capital Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680. 1679 (1679) Wing H2461; ESTC R204379 41,325 145 View Text
A01017 Feudigraphia The synopsis or epitome of surueying methodized. Anatomizing the whole corps of the facultie; viz. The materiall, mathematicall, mechanicall and legall parts, intimating all the incidents to fees and possessions, and whatsoeuer may be comprized vnder their matter, forme, proprietie, and valuation. Very pertinent to be perused of all those, whom the right, reuenewe, estimation, farming, occupation, manurance, subduing, preparing and imploying of arable, medow, pasture, and all other plots doe concerne. And no lesse remarkable for all vnder-takers in the plantation of Ireland or Virginia ... Composed in a compendious digest by W. Folkingham. G. Folkingham, W. (William) 1610 (1610) STC 11123; ESTC S102453 47,378 98 View Text
A45696 The history of the union of the four famous kingdoms of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland wherein is demonstrated that by the prowess and prudence of the English, those four distinct and discordant nations have upon several conquests been entirely united and devolved into one commonwealth, and that by the candor of clemency and deduction of colonies, alteration of laws, and communication of language, according to the Roman rule, they have been maintained & preserved in peace and union / by a Lover of truth and his country. M. H. 1659 (1659) Wing H91B; ESTC R40537 48,954 164 View Text
A75960 The power & practice of court-leets with the manner of keeping a court of survey for mannors, lands and tenements. Also, certain dubious cases in law opened and interpreted. Published for the common good of all, both landlords, tenants and others. By Ph. Ag. of Grays Inne, Esq. Ag., Ph. 1666 (1666) Wing A752; ESTC R225967 50,935 146 View Text
A33673 A supplement by way of additions to and amplifications of the foregoing treatise, concerning copy-hold and customary estates wherein the grounds laid down in the said treatise are made good and confirmed by several resolutions and judgements given in the courts of common laws of England in divers cases. Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. 1668 (1668) Wing C4957; ESTC R31649 50,966 126 View Text
A87531 Pacis consultum: a directory to the publick peace: briefly describing, the antiquity, extent, practice and jurisdiction of several countrey-corporation-courts; especially, the court leet. An exact and perfect method to keep a court of survey for the setting forth and bounding of the mannors, lands, and tenements; with the articles to be therein given in charge: a work most useful: of which subject, never was any thing printed before. An abstract of the penal statutes, useful for all men to know. Also some difficult questions in law, proposed unto, and resolved / by Judge Jenkings. Jenkins, David, 1582-1663. 1657 (1657) Wing J597; Thomason E1672_2; ESTC R202614 51,715 145 View Text
A39612 Statuta vetera & recentiora a methodical collection & abridgement of the statutes that relate to the knowledge and practice of the common-law / by D.F.; Laws, etc. England and Wales.; D. F. 1672 (1672) Wing F11; ESTC R32949 51,770 143 View Text
A71100 A discourse shewing the great happiness that hath and may still accrue to His Majesties kingdomes of England and Scotland by re-uniting them into one Great Britain in two parts / by John Bristol. Thornborough, John, 1551-1641.; Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654. 1641 (1641) Wing T1042A; ESTC R32805 52,904 330 View Text
A22779 The principal lawes customes and estatutes of England which be at this present day in vre [sic] compendiously gathered togither for y[e] weale and benefit of the Kinges Maiesties most louing subiect[s] : newely recognized and augmented. Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575. 1540 (1540) STC 9290.5; ESTC S123569 54,193 204 View Text
A39391 Enchiridion legum a discourse concerning the beginnings, nature, difference, progress and use of laws in general, and in particular, of the common & municipal laws of England.; Enchiridion legum. 1673 (1673) Wing E720; ESTC R22664 57,223 150 View Text
A28196 A treatise of the nobilitie of the realme collected out of the body of the common law, with mention of such statutes as are incident hereunto, upon a debate of the Barony of Aburgavenny : with a table of the heads contained in this treatise.; Magazine of honour Bird, William, 17th cent. 1642 (1642) Wing B2956; ESTC R18509 58,218 162 View Text
A52567 A treatise of the principal grounds and maximes of the lawes of this nation very usefull and commodious for all students and such others as desire the knowledge and understandings of the laws / written by that most excellent and learned expositor of the law, W.N. Noy, William, 1577-1634.; Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628. Treatise of particular estates.; T. H. Certain observations concerning a deed of feoffament. 1651 (1651) Wing N1453; ESTC R30072 59,730 168 View Text
A54694 Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people. Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1662 (1662) Wing P2017; ESTC R7102 61,608 114 View Text
A29655 The reading of that famous lawyer, Sr. Robert Brook, Kt. upon the statute of limitations, 32.H.8. Cap. 2 Brooke, Robert, Sir, d. 1558. 1647 (1647) Wing B4897; ESTC R24091 61,813 188 View Text
A93715 A modest plea for an equal common-wealth against monarchy. In which the genuine nature and true interest of a free-state is briefly stated: its consistency with a national clergy, mercenary lawyers, and hereditary nobility examined; together with the expediency of an agrarian and rotation of offices asserted. Also, an apology for younger brothers, the restitution of gavil-kind, and relief of the poor. With a lift at tythes, and reformation of the lawes and universities. All accommodated to publick honour and justice, without injury to any mans propriety, and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a lover of his country in order to the healing the divisions of the times. Sprigg, William, fl. 1657. 1659 (1659) Wing S5078; Thomason E999_11; ESTC R203651 64,567 117 View Text
A00895 Here begynneth a ryght frutefull mater: and hath to name the boke of surueyeng and improume[n]tes; Book of surveying Fitzherbert, John, d. 1531.; Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir, 1470-1538.; Berthelet, Thomas. aut 1523 (1523) STC 11005; ESTC S112253 64,833 130 View Text
A97178 Church-lands not to be sold. Or, A necessary and plaine answer to the question of a conscientious Protestant; whether the lands of the bishops, and churches in England and Wales may be sold? Warner, John, 1581-1666. 1647 (1647) Wing W900; Thomason E412_8; ESTC R204017 67,640 87 View Text
A93927 The reading upon the statute of the thirteenth of Elizabeth, chapter VII. touching bankrupts, learnedly and amply expained, by John Stone of Gray's Inn, esquire. Stone, John, d. 1640. 1695 (1695) Wing S5730; ESTC R43936 72,205 137 View Text
A33630 The compleate copy-holder wherein is contained a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, vvith all things thereto incident, as surrenders, presentments, admittances, forfeitures, customes, &c. necessary both for the lord and tenant : together, with the forme of keeping a copy-hold court, and court baron / by Sir Edward Coke, Knight.; Complete copy-holder Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. 1641 (1641) Wing C4912; ESTC R1843 72,284 184 View Text
A28463 Fragmenta antiquitatis, antient tenures of land, and jocular customs of some mannors made publick for the diversion of some, and instruction of others / by T.B. of the Inner-Temple, Esquire. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1679 (1679) Wing B3333; ESTC R2884 79,276 200 View Text
A12533 De republica Anglorum The maner of gouernement or policie of the realme of England, compiled by the honorable man Thomas Smyth, Doctor of the ciuil lawes, knight, and principall secretarie vnto the two most worthie princes, King Edwarde the sixt, and Queene Elizabeth. Seene and allowed.; Common-wealth of England Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1513-1577. 1583 (1583) STC 22857; ESTC S117628 79,409 124 View Text
A84200 The exact law--giver faithfully communicating to the skilfull the firm basis and axioms of their profession. To the ignorant their antient and undoubted birthrights and inheritances. Being as a light unto all the professors of the law, as well counsellors as atturneys, clerks, soliciters, scriveners, &c. Or a manu-ductio, or a leading, as it were, by the hand, all such, both of the gentry or laity (as desire to be instructed how to gain or preserve their estates from the hands of their cruell adversaries) to the perfect knowledg of the common and statute law of this nation. 1658 (1658) Wing E3652; Thomason E2128_1; ESTC R201913 81,570 230 View Text
A50674 The touchstone of wills, testaments, and administrations being a compendium of cases & 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 ... Meriton, George, 1634-1711. 1668 (1668) Wing M1811; ESTC R11357 81,710 267 View Text
A26172 Jani Anglorum facies nova, or, Several monuments of antiquity touching the great councils of the kingdom and the court of the kings immediate tenants and officers from the first of William the First, to the forty ninth of Henry the third, reviv'd and clear'd : wherein the sense of the common-council of the kingdom mentioned in King John's charter, and of the laws ecclesiastical, or civil, concerning clergy-men's voting in capital cases is submitted to the judgement of the learned. Atwood, William, d. 1705? 1680 (1680) Wing A4174; ESTC R37043 81,835 173 View Text
A64308 An introduction to the history of England by Sir William Temple, Baronet. Temple, William, Sir, 1628-1699. 1695 (1695) Wing T638; ESTC R14678 83,602 334 View Text
A35720 A manuell, or, Briefe treatise of some particular rights and priuiledges belonging to the High Court of Parliament wherein is shewed how of late times they have been violated : the true condition of the militia of this kingdome, so much now controverted both by king and Parliament, by the positive lawes discussed and debated : with a briefe touch at the royall prerogative / by Robert Derham of Graies-Inne, Esquire. Derham, Robert. 1647 (1647) Wing D1097; ESTC R16744 83,752 146 View Text
A81944 Three learned readings made upon three very usefull statutes: the first, by that great and eminent sage of the law, Sir Iames Dyer, of the Middle Temple, upon the statute of 32.H.8.Chap.I. of Wills, and 34. & 35. Hen.8.Chap.5. for the explanation of that statute. The second, by Sir Iohn Brograve, of Grayes Inne, sometime his Majesties attourney of the dutchy of Lancaster, upon the statute of 27.H.8.Chap.10. concerning jointures. The third, by Thomas Risden esquire, of the Inner Temple, upon the statute of 8.Hen.6. Chap.9. of forcible entry. Dyer, James, Sir, 1512-1582.; Brograve, John, Sir, d. 1613.; Risden, Thomas. 1648 (1648) Wing D2929; Thomason E437_35; ESTC R204745 84,448 129 View Text
A15801 The true vse of armorie shewed by historie, and plainly proued by example: the necessitie therof also discouered: with the maner of differings in ancient time, the lawfulnes of honorable funerals and moniments: with other matters of antiquitie, incident to the aduauncing of banners, ensignes, and marks of noblenesse and cheualrie, by William Wyrley. Wyrley, William, 1565-1618. 1592 (1592) STC 26062; ESTC S120446 88,285 157 View Text
A26170 The history and reasons of the dependency of Ireland upon the imperial crown of the kingdom of England rectifying Mr. Molineux's state of The case of Ireland's being bound by acts of Parliament in England. Atwood, William, d. 1705? 1698 (1698) Wing A4172; ESTC R35293 90,551 225 View Text
A33627 Certain select cases in law reported by Sir Edward Coke, Knight, late Lord Chief Justice of England ... ; translated out of a manuscript written with his own hand, never before published ; with two exact tables, the one of the cases, and the other of the principal matters therein contained.; Reports. Part 13. English Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634. 1659 (1659) Wing C4909; ESTC R1290 92,700 80 View Text
A36230 Honors pedigree, or, The [se]veral fountaines of gentry [be]ing a treatise of the distinct degrees of the nobilitie of this kingdome, with their rights and priviledges, according to the lawes and customes of England / [by] that juditious lawyer, Sir John Dodoredge ... Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628. 1652 (1652) Wing D1793; ESTC R37279 103,037 198 View Text
A36231 Judge Dodaridge, his law of nobility and peerage wherein the antiquities, titles, degrees, and distinctions, concerning the peeres and nobility of this nation, are excellently set forth : with the knights, esquires, gentleman, and yeoman, and matters incident to them, according to the lawes and customes of England.; Magazine of honour Bird, William, 17th cent.; Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628. 1658 (1658) Wing D1794; ESTC R11125 103,063 198 View Text
A66651 The body of the common law of England as it stood in force before it was altered by statute, or acts of Parliament, or state. Together with an exact collection of such statutes, as have altered, or do otherwise concern the same. Whereunto is also annexed certain tables containing a summary of the whole law, for the help and delight of such students as affect method. By Edm. Wingate of Grayes-Inne Esq; Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656. 1655 (1655) Wing W3007; ESTC R220028 104,837 228 View Text
A45975 An act for the better execution of His Majesties gracious declaration for the settlement of his kingdome of Ireland and satisfaction of the several interests of adventurers, souldiers, and other His Majesties subjects there.; Public General Acts. 1662. 14 & 15 Car.II Session 3 c.2 Ireland.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). 1662 (1662) Wing I309A; ESTC R223687 110,568 130 View Text
A31570 Angliæ notitia, or The present state of England together with divers reflections upon the antient state thereof.; Angliae notitia. Part 1 Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703. 1669 (1669) Wing C1819; ESTC R212862 111,057 538 View Text
A61091 The history and fate of sacrilege discover'd by examples of scripture, of heathens, and of Christians; from the beginning of the world continually to this day / by Sir Henry Spelman ... Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641. 1698 (1698) Wing S4927; ESTC R16984 116,597 303 View Text
A58387 Reflections upon the opinions of some modern divines conerning the nature of government in general, and that of England in particular with an appendix relating to this matter, containing I. the seventy fifth canon of the Council of Toledo II. the original articles in Latin, out of which the Magna charta of King John was framed III. the true Magna charta of King John in French ... / all three Englished. Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717.; Catholic Church. Council of Toledo (4th : 633). Canones. Number 75. English & Latin. 1689 (1689) Wing R733; ESTC R8280 117,111 184 View Text
A60898 A treatise of the Roman ports and forts in Kent by William Somner ; publish'd by James Brome ... ; to which is prefixt, The life of Mr. Somner. Somner, William, 1598-1669.; Kennett, White, 1660-1728.; Brome, James, d. 1715. 1693 (1693) Wing S4669; ESTC R19864 117,182 264 View Text
A35931 The royalist's defence vindicating the King's proceedings in the late warre made against him, clearly discovering, how and by what impostures the incendiaries of these distractions have subverted the knowne law of the land, the Protestant religion, and reduced the people to an unparallel'd slavery. Dallison, Charles, d. 1669. 1648 (1648) Wing D138; ESTC R5148 119,595 156 View Text
A12924 An exposicion of the kinges prerogatiue collected out of the great abridgement of Iustice Fitzherbert and other olde writers of the lawes of Englande by the right woorshipfull sir William Staunford Knight, lately one of the iustices of the Queenes maiesties court of comon pleas: whereunto is annexed the proces to the same prerogatiue appertaining. 1567 Staunford, William, Sir, 1509-1558.; Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir, 1470-1538. Graunde abridgement. 1567 (1567) STC 23213; ESTC S117783 123,769 174 View Text
A50263 A very useful manual, or, The young mans companion containing plain and easy directions for spelling, reading, and uniting English, with easy rules, for their attaining to writing, and arithmetick, and the Englishing of the Latin Bible without a tutor, likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, walls, barrels, timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. ... : and several other considerable and necessary matters, intended for the good of all, and for promoting love to one another : as by the table annexed particularly appears / collected by William Mather. Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695. 1681 (1681) Wing M1286; ESTC R36919 124,932 462 View Text
A93553 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, both pleasant and profitable to be known of Kentish-men and others, especially such as are studious, either of the ancient custome, or the common law of this kingdome. By (a well-willer to both) William Somner. Somner, William, 1598-1669. 1659 (1659) Wing S4668; Thomason E1005_1; ESTC R207857 133,861 236 View Text
A35998 The vnlavvfulnesse of subjects taking up armes against their soveraigne in what case soever together with an answer to all objections scattered in their severall bookes : and a proofe that, notwithstanding such resistance as they plead for, were not damnable, yet the present warre made upon the king is so, because those cases in which onely some men have dared to excuse it, are evidently not now, His Majesty fighting onely to preserve himselfe and the rights of the subjects. Diggs, Dudley, 1613-1643. 1643 (1643) Wing D1462; ESTC R10317 134,092 174 View Text
A32663 The royal charter of confirmation granted by King Charles II to the city of London wherein are recited verbatim, all the charters to the said city, granted by His Majesties royal predecessors, kings and queens of England / taken out of the records, and exactly translated into English by S.G. gent ; together with an index or alphabetical table, and a table explaining all the obsolete and difficult words in the said charter.; Charter City of London (England).; S. G., Gent.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) 1680 (1680) Wing C3604A; ESTC R6880 135,372 274 View Text
A96344 For the sacred lavv of the land. By Francis Whyte. White, Francis, d. 1657. 1652 (1652) Wing W1765; Thomason E1330_2; ESTC R209102 136,470 313 View Text
A26173 Jus Anglorum ab antiquo, or, A confutation of an impotent libel against the government by king, lords, and commons under pretence of answering Mr. Petyt, and the author of Jani Anglorum facies nova : with a speech, according to the answerer's principles, made for the Parliament at Oxford. Atwood, William, d. 1705?; Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700. Full and clear answer to a book.; Petyt, William, 1636-1707. Antient right of the Commons of England asserted.; Atwood, William, d. 1705? Jani Anglorum facies nova. 1681 (1681) Wing A4175; ESTC R9859 138,988 352 View Text
A28470 The resolutions of the judges upon the several statutes of bankrupts as also, the like resolutions upon 13 Eliz. and 27 Eliz. touching fraudulent conveyances / by T.B., Esq. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1670 (1670) Wing B3342; ESTC R19029 141,329 238 View Text
A54695 Tenenda non tollenda, or, The necessity of preserving tenures in capite and by knight-service which according to their first institution were, and are yet, a great part of the salus populi, and the safety and defence of the King, as well as of his people : together with a prospect of the very many mischiefs and inconveniences, which by the taking away or altering of those tenures, will inevitably happen to the King and his kingdomes / by Fabian Philipps ... Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690. 1660 (1660) Wing P2019; ESTC R16070 141,615 292 View Text
A64239 The history of gavel-kind with the etymology thereof : containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Brytains, notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans Saxons, Danes and Normans : with some observations and remarks upon many especial occurrences of British and English history / by Silas Taylor ; to which is added a short history of William the Conqueror written in Latin by an anonymous author in the time of Henry the first. Taylor, Silas, 1624-1678. 1663 (1663) Wing T553; ESTC R30161 142,021 250 View Text
A29656 Some new cases of the years and time of King Hen. 8. Edw. 6. and Qu: Mary; written out of the great abridgement, composed by Sir Robert Brook, Knight, &c. There dispersed in the titles, but here collected under years. And now translated into English by John March of Grays-Inn, Barrister. All which said cases are hy [sic]the translator methodised, and reduced alphabetically under their proper heads and titles. With an exact table of the principall matter contained therein.; Graunde abridgement. Selections. French (Law French) Brooke, Robert, Sir, d. 1558.; March, John, 1612-1657.; Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir, 1470-1538. 1651 (1651) Wing B4898; ESTC R213260 142,103 327 View Text
A33823 English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, the Habeas Corpus Act ... II. The proceedings in appeals of murther, the work and power of Parliament, the qualifications necessary for such ... III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others ..., and an abstract of all the laws against papists. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1680 (1680) Wing C515; ESTC R31286 145,825 240 View Text
A61095 Tithes too hot to be touched certain treatises, wherein is shewen that tithes are due, by the law of nature, scripture, nations, therefore neither Jewish, Popish, or inconvenient / written by Sr. Henry Spelman ... ; with an alphabeticall table. Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665. 1640 (1640) Wing S4931; ESTC R19648 146,054 238 View Text
A08310 The surueyors dialogue Diuided into fiue bookes: very profitable for all men to peruse, that haue to do with the reuenues of land, or the manurance, vse, or occupation thereof, both lords and tenants: as also and especially for such as indeuor to be seene in the faculty of surueying of mannors, lands, tenements, &c. By I.N. Norden, John, 1548-1625? 1607 (1607) STC 18639; ESTC S113314 151,126 260 View Text
A43971 The art of rhetoric, with A discourse of the laws of England by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury.; Art of rhetoric Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. 1681 (1681) Wing H2212; ESTC R7393 151,823 382 View Text
A45839 Antiquities of the city of Exeter collected by Richard Izacke ...; Antiquities of the city of Exeter Izacke, Richard, 1624?-1698. 1677 (1677) Wing I1110; ESTC R22442 159,886 334 View Text
A86253 The law of conveyances, shewing the natures, kinds, and effects, of all manner of assurances, with the manner of their several executions and operations. Also directions to sue out and prosecute all manner of writs, of extent, elegit, and judiciall writs upon statutes, recognizances, judgments, &c. A warrant to summon a court of survey: and the articles to be given in charge, and inquired of in that court. With an exposition of divers obscure words and termes of law, used in ancient records, &c. And also plaine decimall tables, whereby may be found the true values of lands, leases, and estates, in possession, or reversion. With a concordance of years, &c. / By John Herne Gent. Herne, John, fl. 1660. 1655 (1655) Wing H1570; Thomason E1597_2 165,473 258 View Text
A62734 Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ... Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735. 1695 (1695) Wing T144; ESTC R668 166,591 415 View Text
A32252 The reading of that famous and learned genrleman, Robert Callis ... upon the statute of 23 H.8, Cap. 5, of Sewers, as it was delivered by him at Grays-Inn in August, 1622. Callis, Robert, fl. 1634. 1647 (1647) Wing C304; ESTC R23882 167,039 246 View Text
A86304 The stumbling-block of disobedience and rebellion, cunningly laid by Calvin in the subjects way, discovered, censured, and removed. By P.H. Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. 1658 (1658) Wing H1736; Thomason E935_3; ESTC R202415 168,239 316 View Text
A34794 The institutes of the lawes of England digested into the method of the civill or imperiall institutions : useful for all gentleman who are studious, and desire to understand the customes of this nation / written in Latine by John Cowel ... ; and translated into English, according to act of Parliament, for the benefit of all, by W.G., Esquire.; Institutiones juris Anglicani. English Cowell, John, 1554-1611.; W. G. 1651 (1651) Wing C6641; ESTC R9063 175,062 294 View Text
A61092 The larger treatise concerning tithes long since written and promised by Sir Hen. Spelman, Knight ; together with some other tracts of the same authour and a fragment of Sir Francis Bigot, Knight, all touching the same subject ; whereto is annexed an answer to a question ... concerning the settlement or abolition of tithes by the Parliament ... ; wherein also are comprised some animadversions upon a late little pamphlet called The countries plea against tithes ... ; published by Jer. Stephens, B.D. according to the appointment and trust of the author.; Tithes too hot to be touched Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Stephens, Jeremiah, 1591-1665.; Bigod, Francis, Sir, 1508-1537. 1647 (1647) Wing S4928; Wing S4917_PARTIAL; ESTC R21992 176,285 297 View Text
A29389 Reports of that grave and learned judge, Sir John Bridgman, knight, serjeant at law, sometime chief justice of Chester to which are added two exact tables, the one of the cases, and the other of the principal matters therein contained. Bridgman, John, Sir.; J. H.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas. 1659 (1659) Wing B4487; ESTC R19935 180,571 158 View Text
A01292 A parallele or conference of the ciuill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England VVherein the agreement and disagreement of these three lawes, and the causes and reasons of the said agreement and disagreement, are opened and discussed. Digested in sundry dialogues by William Fulbecke. At the end of these dialogues is annexed a table of the sections ...; Parallele or conference of the civill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England. Part 1 Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603? 1601 (1601) STC 11415; ESTC S102689 180,892 262 View Text
A10783 A vievv of the ciuile and ecclesiastical lavv and wherein the practise of them is streitned, and may be relieued within this land. VVritten by Thomas Ridley Doctor of the Ciuile Law. Ridley, Thomas, Sir, 1550?-1629. 1607 (1607) STC 21054; ESTC S115989 186,085 248 View Text
A66613 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, faithfully translated out of an exact french copie, with two alphabetical, and necessary table, the one of the names of the cases, the other of the principal matters contained in this book. England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.; Winch, Humphrey, Sir, 1555?-1625. 1657 (1657) Wing W2964; ESTC R8405 191,688 144 View Text
A86034 A survey of the law. Containing directions how to prosecute and defend personal actions, usually brought at common law. With the judges opinions in several cases. To which is annexed, the nature of a writ of error, and the general proceedings thereupon. With a plain table for the easy finding out of every particular. / By Wiliam Glisson and Anthony Gulston [brace] Esquires, [brace] baristers at law.; Common law epitomiz'd Glisson, William.; Gulston, Anthony. 1659 (1659) Wing G866; Thomason E1788_1; ESTC R202224 194,278 425 View Text
A78161 The Attvrneys gvide, for suing out of fines, concords, and recoveries, &c. Being choice and exact presidents for all sorts of fines, concords, and recoveries. Together with full instructions in all proceedings relating thereunto, and the certain charges of the same. With a table of all the particulars. / Perused and approved by G.T. an able practioner, and others. I. B.; G. T. 1656 (1656) Wing B82; Thomason E1611_1; ESTC R22388 195,053 388 View Text
A01231 The lavviers logike exemplifying the præcepts of logike by the practise of the common lawe, by Abraham Fraunce. Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.; Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572. Dialecticae libri duo. 1588 (1588) STC 11344; ESTC S102621 196,200 330 View Text
A68633 An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set foorth and augmented, both in french and English, for the helpe of such younge students as are desirous to attaine the knowledge of ye same. Whereunto are also added the olde Tenures; Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. English and Law French Rastell, John, d. 1536.; Rastell, William, 1508?-1565. 1579 (1579) STC 20706.5; ESTC S115758 196,680 894 View Text
A85496 Reports of that learned and judicious clerk J. Gouldsborough, Esq. sometimes one of the protonotaries of the court of common pleas. Or his collection of choice cases, and matters, agitated in all the courts at Westminster, in the latter yeares of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. With learned arguments at the barr, and on the bench, and the grave resolutions, and judgements, thereupon, of the Chief Justices, Anderson, and Popham, and the rest of the judges of those times. Never before published, and now printed by his original copy. With short notes in the margent, of the chief matters therein contained, with the yeare, terme, and number roll, of many of the cases. And two exact tables, viz. A briefer, of the names of the severall cases, with the nature of the actions on which they are founded, and a larger, of all the remarkable things contained in the whole book. By W. S. of the Inner Temple, Esq; Goldesborough, John, 1568-1618.; W. S., Esq, of the Inner Temple. 1653 (1653) Wing G1450; Thomason E209_5; ESTC R10354 205,623 227 View Text
A60479 Salmasius his buckler, or, A royal apology for King Charles the martyr dedicated to Charles the Second, King of Great Brittain. Bonde, Cimelgus. 1662 (1662) Wing S411; ESTC R40633 209,944 452 View Text
A44191 Lord Hollis, his remains being a second letter to a friend, concerning the judicature of the bishops in Parliament, in the vindication of what he wrote in his first : and in answer to ... The rights of the bishops to judge in capital cases in Parliament, cleared, &c. : it contains likewise part of his intended answer to a second tractate, entituled, The grand question touching the bishops right to vote in Parliament, stated and argued : to which are added Considerations, in answer to the learned author of The grand question, &c., by another hand : and reflections upon some passages in Mr. Hunt's Argument upon that subject, &c., by a third.; Second letter to a friend concerning the judicature of the bishops in Parliament Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.; Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680. Letter of a gentleman to his friend.; Atwood, William, d. 1705? Reflections upon Antidotum Britannicum. 1682 (1682) Wing H2466; ESTC R17318 217,539 444 View Text
A05017 Eirenarcha: or of the office of the iustices of peace in two bookes: gathered. 1579. and now reuised, and firste published, in the. 24. yeare of the peaceable reigne of our gratious Queene Elizabeth: by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Lambarde, William, 1536-1601. 1581 (1581) STC 15163; ESTC S109320 226,552 536 View Text