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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82737	A declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster. Whereas by a clause in an Act of this present Parliament, for enabling and authorizing certain persons to be justices of the peace, ...	England and Wales. Parliament.	1659 (1659)	Wing E1490B; Thomason 669.f.21[60]; ESTC R211225	483	1
B05139	A declaration and order of His Highnes Councill in Scotland, requiring all persons to give due obedience to the justices of peace in execution of the powers and authorities given them by the instructions heereunto [sic] annexed.	Scotland. Privy Council.	1656 (1656)	Wing S1012B; ESTC R183829	949	4
A55981	A proclamation by the President and Council of His Majesty's Territory and Dominion of New-England in America	Territory and Dominion of New-England.	1686 (1686)	Wing P3635; ESTC W8635	1,337	1
A73937	The seueral rates and taxations for wages, made [and] set forth by the iustices of peace of the countie of Lyncolne; Proclamations. 1563-07-08	England and Wales. Privy Council.	1563 (1563)	STC 7957.3; ESTC S124521	1,358	1
A82864	A letter sent by order of both Houses of Parliament, to the high sheriffe of every shire, concerning matters of great consequence. Also an order of both Houses of Parliament; concerning such persons as are appointed for gathering of such sums of money in London, as is intended for the reducing of the rebels in Ireland. Ordered by both Houses to be printed.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1625; Thomason E138_12; ESTC R13477	1,465	8
A45964	An act declaring which days in the year shall be observed as holy-days; Public General Acts. 1695. 7 Wil.III.c.14.	Ireland.	1695 (1695)	Wing I299; ESTC R216029	1,903	7
A72967	Orders made and set downe by the iustices of peace, at the generall sessions of the peace, holden at Oxford the xith of Ianuarie 1613 and in the xith yeare of the raigne of our soveraigne lord King Iames of England &c.	University of Oxford.	1614 (1614)	STC 19003; ESTC S125503	1,939	6
A83227	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the putting out of the cities of London and VVestminster, and late lines of communication, and twenty miles distant, for six months, all delinquents, papists, and others that have been in armes against the Parliament.	England and Wales. Parliament.; City of London (England). Committee for the Militia.	1648 (1648)	Wing E2008; Thomason 669.f.11[123]; ESTC R210775	2,084	1
A82865	A letter sent from both Houses of Parliament, to all the high-sheriffs of this kingdom, concerning the late propositions for Ireland.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1626; Thomason 669.f.4[76]; ESTC R210304	2,091	1
A22195	Iames by the grace of God, king of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, defender of the faith &c. to all and singuler archbishops, bishops, archdeacons ... greeting whereas by the humble supplication and petition of our true and loyall subiects the inhabitants of our towne of Staines within our county of Middlesex ...	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1619 (1619)	STC 8601; ESTC S3821	2,337	1
A07474	A proclamation agreed vpon by the iustices of peace of this countie of Bedford at a generall sessions holden at Bedford, the nineteenth day of Aprill, in the xxvii yere of the Queenes most gracious raigne, for the restraint of wandering roges and vacabounds	Bedfordshire (England)	1585 (1585)	STC 1786.5; ESTC S4502	2,509	1
A22709	Articles of direction touching alehouses Munday the xxj. of March 1607.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1608 (1608)	STC 9214; ESTC S4245	3,220	13
A22708	Articles of direction touching alehouses Munday the xxj. of March 1607.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1608 (1608)	STC 9214.3; ESTC S121326	3,444	16
A22264	By the King, orders decreed vpon for the furtherance of our seruice, asvvell in vvriting, as riding in poste specially set downe, and commanded to be obserued, where our posts are established within our countie of Kent.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1621 (1621)	STC 8675.6; ESTC S802	3,756	1
A22174	By the King, a proclamation concerning ale-houses	England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I); James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1618 (1618)	STC 8588; ESTC S1563	3,829	3
A46178	Whereas the farmers of His Majesties revenue (being the persons and officers duely authorised by themselves ... &c.) have complained to us ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1672-1677 : Essex); Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683.	1677 (1677)	Wing I899; ESTC R39308	3,893	3
A26083	The association, agreement and protestation of the counties of Cornvvall and Devon, January 5, 1643	Cornwall (England : County); Devon (England)	1643 (1643)	Wing A4052; ESTC R10797	4,010	12
A26084	The Association, agreement, and protestation of the covnties of Cornwall, and Devon January 5, 1643.		1643 (1643)	Wing A4053; ESTC R38547	4,015	8
A26085	The Association agreement and protestation of the covntries of Somerset ... [et al.]		1644 (1644)	Wing A4054; ESTC R15252	4,052	12
A38209	The bill for regulating abuses in elections of members to serve in Parliament as it was read a second time, and committed, by the House of Commons, upon Saturday the 5th of April, 1679 : and now offered as advice to the consideration of the whole kingdom.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1679 (1679)	Wing E2532; ESTC R32902	4,128	6
A37899	An ordinance made and agreed by the Lords and Commons of Parliament the 28th day of August 1641 for the speedie disarming of popish recusants, and other dangerous persons.	England and Wales.	1641 (1641)	Wing E1789; ESTC R11519	4,335	22
B02949	An act for the better suppressing of theft upon the borders of England and Scotland, and for discovery of highway men and other felons. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1657 (1657)	Wing E1100A; ESTC R228756	4,410	18
A82439	An act for the better suppressing of theft upon the borders of England and Scotland, and for discovery of high-way men and other felons. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, an. Dom. 1656.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1657 (1657)	Wing E1100; Thomason E1065_37; ESTC R30671	4,426	11
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
A87307	An Act for the relief and release of poor distressed prisoners for debt or dammages	Ireland.	1699 (1699)	Wing I322A; ESTC R232096	5,486	14
A82835	Instructions agreed upon by the Lords and Commons assmbled [sic] in Parliament for Sir Thomas Barrington, Sir William Masham, Sir Martin Lumley, Sir Henry Mildnay of Wansted, Sir Thomas Cheek, Harbottle Grimston Esquire. : Members of the House of Commons and deputie-lievtenants for the county of Essex and committees to be sent into the same county. : And for Sir William Hicks, Sir Richard Everard, Sir Tho. Honywood, Sir Henry Holdcroft, Sir William Roe, Sir William Martin, Sir Iohn Barrington, Timothy Middleton and Iohn Sayer esquires, the rest of the deputy-lievtenants of the said county for preservation of the peace of the said county.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1590A; ESTC R175118	5,742	17
A32011	Nevv matters of high and great consequence, printed the twelfth of March, anno 1642 ...	England and Wales. Parliament.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing C2524A; ESTC R39020	5,769	9
A80524	Magna charta containing that which is very much the sence and agreement of the good people of these nations, notwithstanding their differences relating to worship. Humbly tendered to those that are in eminent place, both in a civil and in a military capacity, and earnestly desired that it may be by them also (in this juncture of affaires) speedily concurred with, resolved upon, and vigorously prosecuted, for the escaping of the sadest, and for the enjoying of the joyfullest dayes and station, that England hath seen. By an unfeined lover of his countrys welfare, and a sincere promoter of the Common-wealth and just concernments of all men. As some further essay in order to a well grounded vnity, peace and settlement, of the poor shaken and shattered nations, upon that sure and durable foundation of righteousness, which will without doubt, according to the wise mans experience, not only establish, but exalt a nation.	J. C.	1659 (1659)	Wing C62; Thomason 669.f.22[15]; ESTC R211355	5,774	2
A83255	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament: for the repairing of churches and paying of all church-duties whatsoever within the kingdome of England and dominion of Wales; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1647 (1647)	Wing E2032B; ESTC R204570	5,775	13
A83254	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for, the repairing of churches, and paying of all church-duties whatsoever within the Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales. Die Mercurii, 9 Februarii. 1647. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance for repairing of churches, and paying of church-duties, be forthwith printed and published, and sent to all churches and chappels within the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales. Joh. Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing E2032A; Thomason E426_9; ESTC R204568	5,779	12
A53027	Acts made the 5th Assembly, 4th session beginning the 15th day of October and ending the 3d day of November following, Anno regni Regis Guielmi Tirtia Anglia, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Octavo.; Laws, etc.	New York (State)	1696 (1696)	Wing N826; ESTC R24088	5,843	6
A37993	An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the repairing of churches and paying of all church-duties whatsoever within the Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales : die Mercuri, 9. Februarii. 1647.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing E2032; ESTC R176137	5,898	14
A45966	An act for avoiding of vexatious delays, caused by removing actions and sutes out of inferior courts ; An act for redress of certain abuses, in making pewter and brass	Ireland.	1697 (1697)	Wing I300; ESTC R39281	6,098	13
A46071	A proclamation for publishing an act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the Advancement of the Trade of Linen Manufacture, and for remitting the penalties thereby incurred, and for inlarging several periods of time in the said act contained by the Lord Lieutenant and Council.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1661-1669 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1667 (1667)	Wing I625; ESTC R36844	6,113	3
A88819	Some pitty on the poor: or, A way how poor people may be supplied with labour and relief, without begging particularly intended for the town of Marlbrough in the county of Wilts, which occasioned another short form concerning the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with an appeal to the Parliament to encourage the work.	Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714.	1675 (1675)	Wing L687A; ESTC R226680	8,510	8
A52926	Acts and laws, passed by the general Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England, begun and held at Portsmouth, on Monday the seventh day of August, 1699, anno regni Gulielmi Tertii, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regis undecimo; Laws, etc.	New Hampshire.; New Hampshire. General Assembly.	1699 (1699)	Wing N645; ESTC R12151	10,157	9
B09030	Anno Regni Caroli II regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, vicesimo secundo & vicesimo tertio at the Parliament begun at Westminster the eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661. In the thirteenth year of the regin of our most gracious sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, defender of the faith, &c., and there continued by several prorogations, to the fourteenth day of February 1669/70, and thence continued to the 22th of April 1671 on which day the said Parliament was prorogued to the 16th day of April which shall be in the year 1672.	England and Wales. Laws, statutes, etc.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1690 (1690)	Wing E1120A; ESTC R175040	11,659	17
A22690	The renevving of certaine orders deuised by the speciall commandement of the Queenes Maiestie, for the reliefe and stay of the present dearth of graine within the realme in the yeere of our Lord 1586. Nowe to bee againe executed this present yere 1594. vpon like occasions as were seene the former yere. With an addition of some other particular orders for reformation of the great abuses in ale-houses and such like.	England and Wales. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1594 (1594)	STC 9201; ESTC S100698	12,391	24
A37590	An act for the uniformity of publick prayers and administration of sacraments and other rites and ceremonies and for establishing the form of making, ordaining and consecrating bishops, priests and deacons in the Church of England.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1662 (1662)	Wing E1136; ESTC R29994	13,269	17
A46002	An assesment for Ireland for three months; at ten thousand pounds by the month Commencing the 12th. day of Ianuary 1654. and determining the 12th. of April following. Dublin this 1. of Ianuary 1654. Ordered by the Lord Deputy and Council, that this order and commission for the assesment, be forthwith printed and published. Signed by order of the said Lord Deputy and Council. Tho: Herbert, Clerk of the Council.	Ireland. Lords Justices and Council.	1654 (1654)	Wing I336C; ESTC R236087	14,258	25
A28043	Cases of treason written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knight ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1641 (1641)	Wing B272; ESTC R16590	15,315	40
A22691	A new charge giuen by the Queenes commandement, to all iustices of peace, and all maiors, shiriffes, and all principall officers of cities, boroughs, and townes corporate, for execution of sundry orders published the last yeere for staie of dearth of graine with certaine additions nowe this present yeere to be well obserued and executed.	England and Wales. Privy Council.; England and Wales. Privy Council.	1595 (1595)	STC 9202; ESTC S100697	15,844	26
A44597	A book of funds, or, Some reasonable projections and proposals for raising three millions of money per annum for supplies to be granted His Majesty by such ways and methods as will be least burthensome to the people during the war most humbly offer'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament / by Thomas Houghton ...	Houghton, Thomas, Gent.	1696 (1696)	Wing H2925A; ESTC R6450	16,887	32
A74552	An ordinance for the ejecting of scandalous, ignorant and insufficient ministers and school-masters. Tuesday August 29. 1654. Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and his council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Council.; Orders in Council. 1654-08-29.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. aut	1654 (1654)	Thomason E1064_32; ESTC R210341	18,265	47
A53435	The last articles of peace made, concluded, accorded and agreed upon the 30 day of Iuly, 1646, by and between His Excellency, James Lord Marques of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland, His Majesties Commisssioner, to treat and conclude a peace with His Majesties Roman Catholique subjects of the said kingdom, by vertue of His Majesties Commission under the great seal of England bearing date at Buckingham on the 24 day of June, in the twentieth year of his reign, for and on the behalf of His Most Excellent Majesty of the one part, and Donogh Lord Viscount Muskery and others appointed and authorized by His Majesties said Roman Catholique subjects, by vertue of an authority of the said Roman Catholique subjects, bearing date the sixth day of March, 1645, and in the one and twentieth year of His Majesties reign, of the other part.	Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1641-1649 : Ormonde); Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1646 (1646)	Wing O446; ESTC R6410	19,593	32
A68527	A godlye, and pithie exhortation, made to the iud[ges of Sussex ...] By William Ouerton, Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of the Queenes Maiesties iustices appoynted for the peace vvithin the same countie	Overton, William, 1525?-1609.	1579 (1579)	STC 18925; ESTC S107302	20,693	63
A52201	Acts and laws passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England begun and held at Boston, the thirty-first of May, 1699, and continued by several prorogations unto Wednesday the thirteenth of March following, and then Sat.; Laws, etc.	Massachusetts.	1700 (1700)	Wing M955; ESTC R25493	24,499	18
A52937	A catalogue of the names of all His Majesties justices of the peace in commission in the several counties throughout England and Wales, according to the late alterations to which is added, the names of all those formerly in commission, now left out : carefully collected from the respective commissions of each county / by S.N. Esquire.	S. N., Esquire.	1680 (1680)	Wing N67; ESTC R5883	25,258	39
A44117	The learned readings of Sir Robert Holbourne, Knight upon the statute of 25 Edw. 3. cap. 2, being the statute of treasons : to which is added cases of [brace] prerogative, treason, misprision of treason, felony, &c. / written by the Right Honourable Francis Bacon ... ; and now reprinted for publick benefit.	Holborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1647.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Cases of treason.	1681 (1681)	Wing H2373; ESTC R34943	30,681	150
A59931	England's interest, or, A discipline for seamen wherein is proposed a sure method for raising qualified seamen for the well manning Their Majesties fleet on all occasions : also, a method wherby seamen will be obliged mutually to relieve each other on board the men of war yearly or thereabout ... : likewise is shewed the advantages which by these methods will accrue to the nation in general and in particular to the merchants and seamen ... / by George St. Lo.	St. Lo, George, d. 1718.	1694 (1694)	Wing S340; ESTC R26996	30,728	53
A47052	Nonconformity not inconsistent with loyality, or, Protestant-dissenters no seditious or disloyal sectaries evidenc'd in a sober discourse upon those statutes, by which the Protestant-dissenters are prosecuted at this day : humbly offered to the candid consideration of all Protestants, whether conformists or nonconformists / by James Jones ...	Jones, James, fl. 1683-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing J958; ESTC R17214	32,964	24
A40484	A friend to Cæsar, or, An humble proposition for the more regular, speedy, and easie payment of his Majesties treasure, granted, or to be granted by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the carrying on of his Majesties expences, whether ordinary or extraordinary, both in time of peace and in time of war and also the causes of those many debts which the crown is so heavily clogged with, and sound propositions for the cure thereof / by a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1681 (1681)	Wing F2213; ESTC R226983	34,769	33
A91198	Irenarches redivivus. Or, A briefe collection of sundry usefull and necessary statutes and petitions in Parliament (not hitherto published in print, but extant onely in the Parliament rolls) concerning the necessity, utility, institution, qualification, jurisdiction, office, commission, oath, and against the causlesse, clandestine dis-commissioning of justices of peace; fit to be publikely known and observed in these reforming times. With some short deductions from them; and a touch of the antiquity and institution of assertors and justices of peace in other forraign kingdomes. Together with a full refutation of Sir Edward Cooks assertion, and the commonly received erronious opinion, of a difference between ordinances and Acts of Parliament in former ages; here cleerly manifested to be then but one and the same in all respects, and in point of the threefold assent. Published for the common good, by William Prynne of Lincolns-Inne, Esq.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3987; Thomason E452_23; ESTC R203239	36,601	50
A54692	The reforming registry, or, A representation of the very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will unavoidably happen by the needless, chargeable, and destructive way of registries proposed to be erected in every county of England and Wales, for the recording of all deeds, evidences, bonds, bills, and other incumbrances : written in the year 1656 when Oliver and the Levelling-party made it their design to ruine monarchy ... / by Fabian Philipps.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1662 (1662)	Wing P2014; ESTC R14829	37,868	105
A28392	A Description of the island of Jamaica with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related ... : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places : illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.	Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Lynch, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684?	1672 (1672)	Wing B3208; ESTC R7437	42,330	208
A62224	Observations upon the statute of 22 Car. II. cap. I. entituled, An act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles by Sir Edmund Saunders, Kt. ...	Saunders, Edmund, Sir, d. 1683.	1685 (1685)	Wing S742; ESTC R9546	42,853	166
A96658	Jus regium coronæ, or, The King's supream power in dispensing with penal statutes more particularly as it relates to the the two test-acts of the twenty fifth, and thirtieth of His late Majesty, King Charles the Second, argu'd by reason, and confirm'd by the common, and statute laws of this kingdom : in two parts / auctore Jo. Wilsonio J.C.	Wilson, John, 1626-1696.	1688 (1688)	Wing W2921A; ESTC R43961	44,210	87
A49831	The office and dutie of constables, churchwardens and other the overseers of the poore together with the office and dutie of the surveyours of the high-wayes / collected for the help and benefit of such as are ignorant and unskilfull in the discharge and execution of the said offices.	Layer, John, 1585?-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing L746; ESTC R34961	46,963	177
A33959	A perfect guide for Protestant dissenters in case of prosecution upon any of the penal statutes made against them together with the statutes of 35 Eliz. and 22 Car. 2 at large : to which is added a post-script about ecclesiastical courts and prosecution in them.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1682 (1682)	Wing C531; ESTC R5384	47,546	38
A41855	The great and ancient charter of the Cinque-Ports of our lord the King, and the members of the same	Cinque Ports (Association); England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). aut	1682 (1682)	Wing G1632; ESTC R215891	50,885	142
A22844	Certaine statutes especially selected, and commanded by his Maiestie to be carefully put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme with his Maiesties proclamation for further direction for executing the same. Also certaine orders thought meete by his Maiestie and his Priuie Counsell, to bee put in execution, together with sundry good rules, preseruatiues, and medicines against the infection of the plague, set downe by the Colledge of the Physicians vpon his Maiesties speciall command: as also a decree of the Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Royal College of Physicians of London.	1630 (1630)	STC 9342; ESTC S125901	56,831	142
A06288	Certain necessary directions, aswell for the cure of the plague as for preuenting the infection; with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Maiesties subiects / set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Maiesties speciall command ; with sundry orders thought meet by His Maiestie, and his Priuie Councell, to be carefully executed for preuention of the plague ; also certaine select statutes commanded by His Maiestie to be put in execution by all iustices, and other officers of the peace throughout the realme ; together with His Maiesties proclamation for further direction therein, and a decree in Starre-Chamber, concerning buildings and in-mates.	Royal College of Physicians of London.	1636 (1636)	STC 16769.5; ESTC S108814	57,021	154
A93109	Of corporations, fraternities, and guilds. Or, a discourse, wherein the learning of the law touching bodies-politique is unfolded, shewing the use and necessity of that invention, the antiquity, various kinds, order and government of the same. Necessary to be known not only of all members and dependants of such bodies; but of all the professours of our common law. With forms and presidents, of charters of corporation. / By William Shepheard, serjeant at law.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1659 (1659)	Wing S3195; Thomason E1912_2; ESTC R203559	65,245	193
A50664	Immorality, debauchery, and profaneness, exposed to the reproof of Scripture, and the censure of the law containing a compendium of the penal laws now in force against idleness, profaneness, and drunkenness, houses of unlawful games, profane swearing and cursing, speaking or acting in contempt of the Holy Sacrament, disturbing of ministers, profane jesting with the name of God, absenting form the church, profanation of the Lord's day, debauched incontinency, and bastard-getting : with several texts of Scripture prohibiting such vices : also a brief collection of several signal judgments of God against offenders in the said vices and debaucheries / published for the advancement of reformation of manners, so happily begun and carried on by several societies, by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1698 (1698)	Wing M1800; ESTC R16769	67,391	130
A59721	The justice of the peace, his clarks cabinet, or, A book of presidents, or warrants, fitted and made ready to his hand for every case that may happen within the compass of his masters office for the ease of the justice of peace, and more speedy dispatch of justice / by William Shepard ...	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1660 (1660)	Wing S3190; ESTC R31195	70,352	144
A64757	Practica Walliæ, or, The proceedings in the great sessions of Wales containing the method and practice of an attorney there, from an original to the execution : whereunto is added, the old statute of Wales at large, and an abridgement of all the statutes uniting Wales to England : with tables of the fees, and the matters therein contained / by Rice Vaughan ...	Vaughan, Rice.	1672 (1672)	Wing V136; ESTC R3656	72,094	234
A31852	A faithful account, of the present state of affairs, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, or, The remarkable transactions and proceedings that have happened in these kingdoms, since the discovery of the horrid Popish Plot, anno 1678 to this present year, 1689/90 plainly shewing the state of affairs, from time to time, in peace and war : but more particularly what has happened under the government and reign of their present Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, and of our wonderful deliverance from popery and slavery, &c. / by E.C.	E. C.	1690 (1690)	Wing C22; ESTC R22985	73,896	190
A11227	The gouernment of Ireland vnder the honorable, iust, and wise gouernour Sir Iohn Perrot Knight, one of the Priuy Councell to Queene Elizabeth, beginning 1584. and ending 1588 Being the first booke of the continuation of the historie of that kingdome, formerly set forth to the yeare 1584, and now continued to this present 1626. Whereof the rest succeeding this already collected, but not fully perfected, shall shortly follow.	E. C. S, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21490; ESTC S116308	77,201	172
A42380	The compleat constable directing all [brace] constables, headboroughs, tithingmen, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and scavengers in duty of their several offices according to the power allowed them by the laws and statutes, continued to this present time, 1692 : also directions for the London constables, to which is added a treatise of warrants and commitments proper for the knowledge of all constables, &c.	Gardiner, Robert.	1692 (1692)	Wing G238B; ESTC R40879	79,778	167
A54620	The political anatomy of Ireland with the establishment for that kingdom when the late Duke of Ormond was Lord Lieutenant ... : to which is added Verbum sapienti, or, An account of the wealth and expences of England, and the method of raising taxes in the most equal manner ... / by Sir William Petty ...	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1691 (1691)	Wing P1931; ESTC R4596	80,138	248
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
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
A30253	A case concerning the buying of bishops lands with, the lawfulness thereof and the difference between the contractors for sale of those lands, and the corporation of VVells, ordered, Anno. 1650, to be reported to the then Parliament / with the necessity thereof, since fallen upon Dr. Burges.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5670; ESTC R11486	85,757	85
A50662	A guide to surveyors of the high-ways shewing the office and duty of such surveyors, with several cases and resolutions in law relating to the same : collected and gathered out of publick acts of Parliament now in force, and out of the year-books, and other books of the municipal laws of this kingdom : with an abridgment of the statute of 22 H. 8 Chap. 5 for the repairing of bridges, with cases relating thereunto : and likewise a summary of the statutes made for paving, cleansing &c., streets, lanes, &c., in London and other towns and places, and an abstract of statutes made for the repairs of high-ways and bridges in particular places, methodiz'd into short chapters for the ready finding out any matter contain'd in the book / by G. Meriton, Gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1694 (1694)	Wing M1799; ESTC R23533	92,726	194
A53033	The laws & acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties province of New-York, as they were enacted in divers sessions, the first of which began April, the 9th, annoq[ue] Domini, 1691; Laws, etc.	New York (State)	1694 (1694)	Wing N831; ESTC R3503	96,003	114
A50654	A guide for constables, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, treasurers of the county stock, masters of the house of correction, bayliffs of mannours, toll-takers in fairs &c. a treatise briefly shewing the extent and latitude of the several offices, with the power of the officers herein, both by common law and statute, according to the several additions and alterations of the law, till the 20 year of His Majesties reign / collected by Geo. Meriton, gent.	Meriton, George, 1634-1711.	1669 (1669)	Wing M1793; ESTC R35040	100,385	287
A93108	A new survey of the justice of peace his office· Wherein is briefly, yet clearly opened the severall parts thereof: and what one, or more justices of peace may do therein, in, or out of the sessions of the peace, by all the laws made to this day; and now in force. With the names, or times, of the statutes, acts, and ordinances themselves, relating to this office. Alphabetically set down under apt titles. / By W.S. Serjeant at Law.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1659 (1659)	Wing S3194; Thomason E1871_1; ESTC R203711	101,664	254
A09900	The attourneys academy, or, The manner and forme of proceeding practically vpon any suite, plaint or action whatsoever, in any court of record whatsoever, within this kingdome : especially in the great courts at Westminster, to whose motion all other court of law or equitie ... are diurnally mooued : with the moderne and most vsuall fees of the officers and ministers of such courts / publisht by his Maiesties speciall priuiledge ... [by] Tho. Povvell.	Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?	1623 (1623)	STC 20163.5; ESTC S124370	102,508	306
A77106	The life and raigne of King Charles, from his birth to his death. / Faithfully and impartially performed by Lambert Wood Gent.	Bos, Lambert van den, 1610-1698.; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680, engraver.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3777E; Thomason E1760_2; ESTC R209760	109,238	223
A59729	The offices of constables, church wardens, overseers of the poor, supravisors of the high-wayes, treasurers of the county-stock and some other lesser country officers plainly and lively set forth by William Sheppard.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1650 (1650)	Wing S3202; ESTC R30564	113,836	230
A76259	A help to magistrates, and ministers of justice, also a guide to parish and ward-officers. : Containing, 1. Plain directions for justices of the peace ... 2. To their clerks in drawing forms of warrants, and other necessary writings. 3. A help to grand and petty juries. 4. Penalties upon forestallers ... 5. The rates of servants wages ... 6. Some directions to coroners and their inquests ... 7. Customs ... peculiar to the city of London in privileges, law-matters ... 8. The office and duty of a high constable ... 9. The office and duty of churchwardens and sidesmen. 10. The office and duty of the overseers of the poor. 11. The office and duty of toll-keepers and fair-keepers. 12. The office and duty of surveyors of highways, scavengers, &c.	P. B., Gent.	1700 (1700)	Wing B150A; ESTC R172533	117,286	226
A47102	An explanation of the laws against recusants, &c. abridged by Joseph Keble ...	Keble, Joseph, 1632-1710.	1681 (1681)	Wing K115; ESTC R1584	133,989	274
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
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
A04754	The Complete justice a compendium of the particulars incident to justices of the peace, either in sessions or out of sessions : gathered out of the statutes, reports, late resolutions of the judges, and other approved authorities : abstracted and cited alphabetically for their ready helpe, and the ease of inferiour officers, and for the generall good of the kingdome.		1637 (1637)	STC 14887.5; ESTC S4353	145,933	304
A45254	The reports of that reverend and learned judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight sometimes one of the judges of the common pleas : containing many choice cases, judgments, and resolutions in points of law in the severall raignes of King James and King Charles / being written in French in his owne hand, and now faithfully translated into English according to order.	England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.; Hutton, Richard, Sir, 1561?-1639.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3843; ESTC R14563	150,299	158
A39465	A continuation of the abridgment of all the statutes of K. William and Q. Mary, and of King William the Third, in force and use begun by J. Washington of the Midd. Temple Esq. ; revised and continued after his death to the end of the session of Parliament, 27 April, 1696 and now further continued, from the beginning of the second session of the Third Parliament, 20 October 1696, to the end of the third and last session of the said Third Parliament, 5 July, 1698 ; with two new tables.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Washington, Joseph, d. 1694.	1699 (1699)	Wing E901; ESTC R10134	164,075	204
A80293	The Compleat justice. 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 former impressions thereof. ; Whereunto are added the resolutions of the judges of assises in the year 1633. ; Together with a compendious charge to be given at the quarter-sessions, not in print till this year 1661.		1661 (1661)	Wing C5644A; ESTC R174206	192,009	409
A47352	Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.	Kilburne, Richard, 1605-1678.; G. F., of Grayes-Inn.	1681 (1681)	Wing K429; ESTC R217188	201,245	429
A39473	An exact abridgment of all the statutes of King William and Queen Mary now in force and use / by J. Washington.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Washington, Joseph, d. 1694.	1694 (1694)	Wing E913; ESTC R23866	210,071	247
A65124	A complete collection of all the lavvs of Virginia now in force Carefully copied from the assembly records. To which is annexed an alphabetical table.; Laws, etc.	Virginia.	1684 (1684)	Wing V636; ESTC R222342	217,004	350
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
A21071	The lavves resolutions of womens rights: or, The lavves prouision for woemen A methodicall collection of such statutes and customes, with the cases, opinions, arguments and points of learning in the lavv, as doe properly concerne women. Together with a compendious table, whereby the chiefe matters in this booke contained, may be the more readily found.	Edgar, Thomas, lawyer.; Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628.; I. L.	1632 (1632)	STC 7437; ESTC S100217	253,135	400
A76981	An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England. The first part. From the first times till the reigne of Edvvard the third; Historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England. Part 1	Bacon, Nathaniel, 1593-1660.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1647 (1647)	Wing B348B; ESTC R8530	270,823	378
A31458	The laws of Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles the First concerning Jesuites, seminary priests, recusants, &c., and concerning the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, explained by divers judgments and resolutions of the reverend judges : together with other observations upon the same laws : to which is added the Statute XXV Car. II. cap. 2 for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recusants : and an alphabetical table to the whole / by William Cawley of the Inner Temple, Esq.	Cawley, William, of the Inner Temple.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1651; ESTC R5101	281,468	316
A69811	The scrivener's guide being choice and approved forms of presidents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better method than any yet printed, being useful for all gentlemen, but chiefly for those who practice the law, viz. assignments, articles of agreement, acquittances, bargains and sale, bills, conditions, copartnerships, covenants, deeds, defeazances, grants, joyntures, indentures, letters of attorny, licenses, obligations, provisoes, presidents for parish business, releases, revocations, wills, warrants of attorny, &c. / by Nicholas Cobert ...	Covert, Nicholas.; Bohun, William.	1700 (1700)	Wing C6633A; ESTC R9889	290,539	478
A34843	The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.	Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692. Hunter, a discourse in horsemanship.	1686 (1686)	Wing C6705; ESTC R33687	308,510	564
A53737	A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux wherein the principles of the Roman church, as to moderation, unity and truth are examined and sundry important controversies concerning the rule of faith, papal supremacy, the mass, images, &c. discussed / by John Owen.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1664 (1664)	Wing O822; ESTC R17597	313,141	517
A33531	English-law, or, A summary survey of the houshold of God on earth and that both before and under the law, and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus : historically opening the purity and apostacy of believers in the successions of ages, to this present : together with an essay of Christian government under the regiment of our Lord and King, the one immortal, invisible, infinite, eternal, universal prince, the Prince of Peace, Emmanuel.	Cock, Charles George.	1651 (1651)	Wing C4789; ESTC R37185	322,702	228
A18078	A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1573 (1573)	STC 4712; ESTC S120563	333,686	231