B08651
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The case of the Earl of Macclesfield, against Mr. John Starkey, who while be served as a jury-man, published a malicious libel against the said Earl and others, contrary to law, and all pretence of colours from the office of jury-man.
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1685
(1685)
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Wing C1066A; ESTC R173444
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3,983
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4
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A49064
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By the Maior. The right honourable the Lord Maior, minding and intending, by Gods help and the concurrent endeavours of his brethren the aldermen, to discover, punish, and suppress to the uttermost of his power, as the proper work and most incumbent duty of his office, those manifold corruptions ...
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City of London (England). Lord Mayor.; Ford, Richard, Sir, d. 1678. aut
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1671
(1671)
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Wing L2885Q; ESTC R217724
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4,185
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3
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A88854
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Proposalls for an Act for prevention of the great trouble and charge which the honest people of this nation, have been put to; by wrongfull arrests and imprisonments, and for preserving them from such arrests (being upon feigned great actions) at the sute of divers to whom they have owed nothing. And also for an other Act for the taking away the great trouble and charge, which the people of this nation have been put to; by sheriffs, bayliffs, serjeants, &c. to procure arrests and appearances of their debtors, &c. in order to the more speedy satisfying of creditors; for the saving to the people of this nation, between 4 and 500000. pounds yearly, part of the 1500000. pounds, formerly proposed to be so saved yearly, mentioned in the proposalls for creditors and prisoners. With a short explanation in particular, how those 300000. pounds, and more, by these proposalls for creditors and prisoners, will be saved. Offered to the same consideration, as those for creditors and prisoners are. / By Will. Leach of the Middle Temple Gent.
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Leach, William.
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1650
(1650)
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Wing L779; Thomason E604_1; ESTC R205839
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6,668
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15
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A40415
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A Free conference touching the present state of England both at home and abroad, in order to the designs of France
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1668
(1668)
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Wing F2112; ESTC R201279
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27,274
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80
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A00880
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In this booke is contayned the offices of shyriffes, bayliffes of lybertyes, escheatours, constables, and coroners and shewed what euerye one of them may doe by vertue of their offices, drawen out of bookes of the common lawe and of the statutes.; Office et auctoryte des iustyces de peas. English. Selections
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Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir, 1470-1538.; Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.
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1579
(1579)
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STC 10993.9; ESTC S4009
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45,369
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112
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A49831
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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.
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Layer, John, 1585?-1641.
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1641
(1641)
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Wing L746; ESTC R34961
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46,963
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177
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A48475
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The duty and office of high-constables of hundreds, petty-constables, tythingmen, and such inferior ministers of the peace with the several duties and offices of churchwardens, overseers, and collectors for the poor, of surveyors for amending the higheways, and distributors of the provision for the destruction of noysom fowl and vermin / first collected by William Lambard, in the reign of Q. Elizabeth ; and now enlarged with many useful additions according to the succeeding statutes by R. Turner ...
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Lambarde, William, 1536-1601.; Turner, R.
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1671
(1671)
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Wing L215A; ESTC R41023
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59,151
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158
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A59721
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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 ...
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Sheppard, William, d. 1675?
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1660
(1660)
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Wing S3190; ESTC R31195
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70,352
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144
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A42380
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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.
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Gardiner, Robert.
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1692
(1692)
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Wing G238B; ESTC R40879
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79,778
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167
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A52196
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Acts and laws passed by the great and general court or assembly of Their Majesties province of the Massachussets-bay, in New England begun at Boston, the eighth day of June 1692, and continued by adjournment, unto Wednesday the twelfth day of October following : being the second sessions.
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Massachusetts. General Court.
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1692
(1692)
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Wing M950; ESTC R8928
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80,538
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97
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A28565
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The justice of peace, his calling and qualifications by Edmund Bohun, Esq.
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Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.
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1693
(1693)
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Wing B3458; ESTC R18572
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84,020
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203
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A04743
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The boke for a justyce of peace neuer so well and dylygently set forthe.; Book for a justice of peace.
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1544
(1544)
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STC 14878.3; ESTC S3937
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87,001
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173
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A56493
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A new guide for constables, headboroughs, tythingmen, church-wardens, overseers and collectors for the poor, surveyors for amending the highways and bridges with directions for keepers of fairs and markets, and treasurers for the relief of poor maimed soldiers and mariners : containing not only whatsoever may be useful to them in the execution of their several offices, that is already extant in any book of this kind, but also the heads of all those statutes which do concern any of the said offices that have been since made in the reigns of the late King Charles, King James, and their present Majesties, King William and Queen Mary : being the most compleat of any work of this nature / collected by J.P. Gent.
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J. P., Gent.
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1692
(1692)
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Wing P60; ESTC R5423
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90,373
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182
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A50654
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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.
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Meriton, George, 1634-1711.
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1669
(1669)
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Wing M1793; ESTC R35040
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100,385
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287
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A93108
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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.
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Sheppard, William, d. 1675?
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1659
(1659)
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Wing S3194; Thomason E1871_1; ESTC R203711
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101,664
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254
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A58640
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The laws and acts of the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraign Charles the Second ... holden at Edinburgh the first of January, 1661 by a noble Lord, John, Earl of Middleton ... with the special advice and consent of the estates of Parliament / extracted and collected from the records of Parliament by Sir Archibald Primerose.; Laws, etc.
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Scotland.; Primrose, Archibald, Sir, 1616-1679.
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1661
(1661)
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Wing S1271; ESTC R30550
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109,236
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124
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A59729
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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.
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Sheppard, William, d. 1675?
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1650
(1650)
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Wing S3202; ESTC R30564
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113,836
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230
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A76259
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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.
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P. B., Gent.
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1700
(1700)
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Wing B150A; ESTC R172533
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117,286
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226
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A14341
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An abridgement of the notable woorke of Polidore Vergile conteignyng the deuisers and firste finders out as well of artes, ministeries, feactes & ciuill ordinaunces, as of rites, and ceremonies, commo[n]ly vsed in the churche: and the originall beginnyng of the same. Co[m]pendiously gathered by Thomas Langley; De rerum inventoribus. English. Abridgments
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Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581. aut
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1546
(1546)
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STC 24656; ESTC S107600
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129,908
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356
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A19787
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The office and authoritie of sherifes. Abridged by the former author Mich. Dalton, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire; Officium vicecomitum. Abridgments.
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Dalton, Michael, d. 1648?
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1628
(1628)
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STC 6213; ESTC S116874
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144,803
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487
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A04754
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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.
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1637
(1637)
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STC 14887.5; ESTC S4353
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145,933
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304
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A44485
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The booke called the mirrour of justices made by Andrew Horne ; with the book called the diversity of courts and their jurisdictions ; both translated out of the old French into the English tongue by W.H.
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Horne, Andrew, d. 1328.
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1646
(1646)
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Wing H2789; ESTC R23979
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152,542
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367
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A53751
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The reports of that late reverend and learned judge, Thomas Owen Esquire one of the justices of the Common pleas : wherein are many choice cases, most of them throughly argued by the learned serjeants, and after argued and resolved by the grave judges of those times : with many cases wherein the differences in the year-books are reconciled and explained : with two exact alphabeticall tables, the one of the cases, and the other of the principal matters therein contained.
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England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.; Owen, Thomas, d. 1598.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
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1656
(1656)
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Wing O832; ESTC R13317
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170,888
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175
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A37445
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The parson's counsellor with the law of tithes or tithing in two books : the first sheweth the order every parson, vicar, &c. ought to observe in obtaining a spiritual preferment, and what duties are incumbent upon him ... : the second shews in what manner all sorts of tithes, offerings, mortuaries, and other church-duties are to be paid ... / written by Sir Simon Degge, Kt.
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Degge, Simon, Sir, 1612-1704.
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1676
(1676)
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Wing D852; ESTC R8884
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170,893
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368
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A51911
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Reports, or, new cases with divers resolutions and judgements given upon solemn arguments, and with great deliberation, and the reasons and causes of the said resolutions and judgements / collected by John March ...
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England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.; March, John, 1612-1657.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
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1648
(1648)
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Wing M576; ESTC R6440
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178,601
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242
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A80293
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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.
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1661
(1661)
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Wing C5644A; ESTC R174206
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192,009
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409
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A61922
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Regestum practicale, or, The practical register consisting of rules, orders, and observations concerning the common-laws, and the practice thereof : but more particularly applicable to the proceedings in the upper-bench, as well in matters criminal as civil ... / by William Style.
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Style, William, 1603-1679.
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1657
(1657)
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Wing S6102; ESTC R33821
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216,034
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394
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A05017
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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.
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Lambarde, William, 1536-1601.
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1581
(1581)
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STC 15163; ESTC S109320
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226,552
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536
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A81194
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A compendium of the laws and government ecclesiastical, civil and military, of England, Scotland & Ireland and dominions, plantations and territories thereunto belonging, with the maritime power thereof, and jurisdiction of courts therein. Methodically digested under their proper heads. By H.C. sometime of the Inner Temple.
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Curson, H. (Henry)
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1699
(1699)
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Wing C7686A; ESTC R231895
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237,927
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672
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A51217
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An exact abridgement in English, of the cases reported by Sr. Francis More Kt. serjeant at law with the resolution of the points in law therein by the judges / collected by William Hughes of Grayes-Inn Esq.
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Hughes, William, of Gray's Inn.; Moore, Francis, Sir, 1558-1621.
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1665
(1665)
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Wing M2538; ESTC R22481
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260,319
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322
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A26015
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The law of obligations and conditions, or, An accurate treatise, wherein is contained the whole learning of the law concerning bills, bonds, conditions, statutes, recognizances, and defeasances ... : to which is added a table of references to all the declarations and pleadings upon bonds, &c. now extant : also another table to the forms of special conditions which lie scattered in our president [sic] books ... : with an index of the principal matters therein contained / by T.A. of Grays-Inn, Esq.
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Ashe, Thomas, fl. 1600-1618.
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1693
(1693)
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Wing A3972; ESTC R9431
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276,581
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591
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A33636
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An exact abridgement in English of the eleven books of reports of the learned Sir Edward Coke, knight, late lord chief justice of England and of the councel of estate to His Majestie King James wherein is briefly contained the very substance and marrow of all those reports together with the resolutions on every case : also a perfect table for the finding of the names of all those cases and the principall matters therein contained / composed by Sir Thomas Ireland.
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Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.; Ireland, Thomas, Sir.
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1650
(1650)
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Wing C4919; ESTC R26030
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276,990
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515
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A31458
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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.
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Cawley, William, of the Inner Temple.
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1680
(1680)
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Wing C1651; ESTC R5101
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281,468
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316
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A54693
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Regale necessarium, or, The legality, reason, and necessity of the rights and priviledges justly claimed by the Kings servants and which ought to be allowed unto them / by Fabian Philipps.
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Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.
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1671
(1671)
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Wing P2016; ESTC R26879
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366,514
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672
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A50697
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Observations on the acts of Parliament, made by King James the First, King James the Second, King James the Third, King James the Fourth, King James the Fifth, Queen Mary, King James the Sixth, King Charles the First, King Charles the Second wherein 1. It is observ'd if they be in desuetude, abrogated, limited, or enlarged, 2. The decisions relating to these acts are mention'd, 3. Some new doubts not yet decided are hinted at, 4. Parallel citations from the civil, canon, feudal and municipal laws, and the laws of other nations are adduc'd for clearing these statutes / by Sir George Mackenzie ...
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Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.
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1686
(1686)
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Wing M184; ESTC R32044
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446,867
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482
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A87798
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Jurisdictions or, The lawful authority of courts leet, courts baron, court of marshallseys, court of pypowder, and ancient demesne : together with the most necessary learning of tenures, and all their incidents, of essoynes, imparlance, view; of all manner of pleadings, of contracts, of the nature of all sorts of actions, of maintenance; of diverse other things, very profitable for all students of innes of court and chancery : and a most perfect directory for all stewards of any the sayd courts. / Heretofore writ in French by the methodically learned, John Kitchin of Grays-Inne, Esq; and now most exactly rendred to more ample advantage in the English tongue; with a demonstrative table, pointing out all matter of consequence, throughout the whole work. Whereunto is added the authentick formes of all manner of writs, with their severall returnes in English, very usefull for all men in this Common-wealth, as they be now used.; Court leete et court baron. English
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Kitchin, John.
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1651
(1651)
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Wing K656; Thomason E1225_1; ESTC R211060
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481,896
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637
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A39466
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An exact abridgment of all statutes in force and use from the beginning of Magna Carta until 1641 / by Edm. Wingate of Grayes-Inne, Esq. ; with a continuation, under their proper titles, of all acts in force and use, untill the year 1666, and alphabetically digested under apt titles ; whereto is annexed four tables directing to the several matters and clauses throughout the said statutes.; Laws, etc.
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England and Wales.; Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656.; Manby, Thomas, of Lincolns-Inn.
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1666
(1666)
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Wing E906; ESTC R33346
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579,794
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810
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A16313
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A iustice of peace for Ireland consisting of two bookes: the first declaring th'exercise of that office by one or more iustices of peace out of sessions. The second setting forth the forme of proceeding in sessions, and the matters to be enquired of, and handled therein. Composed by Sir Richard Bolton Knight, Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer in Ireland. Whereunto are added many presidents of indictments of treasons, felonies, misprisions, præmunires, and finable offences of force, fraud, omission, and other misdemeanors of severall sorts, more then ever heretofore have beene published in print.
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Bolton, Richard, Sir, 1570?-1648.
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1638
(1638)
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STC 3223; ESTC S107128
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601,677
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634
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A61918
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Narrationes modernæ, or, Modern reports begun in the now upper bench court at VVestminster in the beginning of Hillary term 21 Caroli, and continued to the end of Michaelmas term 1655 as well on the criminall, as on the pleas side : most of which time the late Lord Chief Justice Roll gave the rule there : with necessary tables for the ready finding out and making use of the matters contained in the whole book : and an addition of the number rolls to most of the remarkable cases / by William Style ...
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England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.; Style, William, 1603-1679.; Rolle, Henry, 1589?-1656.
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1658
(1658)
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Wing S6099; ESTC R7640
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612,597
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542
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A10218
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De pace Regis et regni viz. A treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and kingdome, as menaces, assaults, batteries, treasons, homicides, and felonies ... and by whome, and what meanes the sayd offences, and the offendors therein are to bee restrained, repressed, or punished. ... Collected out of the reports of the common lawes of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painfull workes of the reuerend iudges Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes, by Ferdinando Pulton of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier.
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Pulton, Ferdinando, 1536-1618.; Fitzherbert, Anthony, Sir, 1470-1538.; England and Wales. Public General Acts. Selections.
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1609
(1609)
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STC 20495; ESTC S116053
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719,079
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571
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A61358
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State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.
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William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694.
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1692
(1692)
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Wing S5331; ESTC R17906
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843,426
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519
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A87648
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An assistance to justices of the peace, for the easier performance of their duty. By Jos. Keble, of Grays Inn, Esq.
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Keble, Joseph, 1632-1710.
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1683
(1683)
|
Wing K113B; ESTC R225612
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927,076
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736
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A03448
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The firste [laste] volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande conteyning the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest : the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first original of the Scottes nation till the yeare of our Lorde 1571 : the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the first originall of that nation untill the yeare 1571 / faithfully gathered and set forth by Raphaell Holinshed.
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Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?
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1577
(1577)
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STC 13568B; ESTC S3985
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4,747,313
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2,664
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