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- Author:
- Walsh, Thomas
- Title:
- History of the Irish Hierarchy, With the Monasteries of Each County, Biographical Notices of the Irish Saints, Prelates, and Religious. Compiled from the Most Authentic Records, Foreign and Domestic
- Publisher:
- D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 164 William Street [etc.], New York, 1857.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original embossed cloth, badly worn, ex-library; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-30033
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- IRELAND, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Elmes, James
- Title:
- A Practical Treatise on Ecclesiastical and Civil Dilapidations, Re-instatements, Waste . . . With an Appendix Containing Cases Decided, Precedents of Notices to Repair, Examples of Valuations [etc.]. Third Edition, Considerably Enlarged
- Publisher:
- Samule Brooke, Law Printing-Office, 35, Paternoster Row, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Best edition of a work of potential interest to anyone interested in the legal and historical aspects of architecture and construction particularly as applied to churches, with comparisons drawn to Roman and French law and much reliance on Lord Coke
- Condition:
- Cloth-backed boards, rebacked, quite rubbed, but a sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-64350
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, Legal Architecture
- Author:
- Cunningham, Timothy
- Title:
- The Law of Simony: Containing, All the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, and Judgments concerning it . . . by the Canon and Common Law; the Stat. of 31st Eliz. c.6 . . . Determinations upon that Act, from Lord Coke, and other[s] [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers [etc.], London, 1784.
- Description:
- The only work on the English law of simony (the form of ecclesiastical corruption said to have been named after Simon Magus), "an intelligent summary" in Holdsworth's words, with much discussion of its criminal nature and its association with perjury
- Condition:
- Contemporary sprinkled polished calf, gilt, some sidenotes just shaved (the sense preserved), else a lovely bright fresh copy; with the half-title
- Book No.:
- W-74445
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, criminal law
- Author:
- Stuart, John (ed.)
- Title:
- Records of the Priory of the Isle of May
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Society [of Antiquaries of Scotland] by R. Clark, Edinburgh, 1868.
- Description:
- An exceptionally well edited account of the early religious presence on the Isle of May, located in the firth of Forth on Scotland's east coast, founded by King David of Scotland in the late 12th century; with several impressive facsimiles
- Condition:
- Original cloth, quite rubbed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-42030
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- law and sociology, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Tuero Bertrand, Francisco
- Title:
- Un Pleito Sobre Derecho de Asilo en el Oviedo del Siglo XVIII
- Publisher:
- Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, Oviedo, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original wraps, a little worn, but sound and usable; 117 pages
- Book No.:
- W-53087
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, 18TH CENTURY, SPAIN
- Author:
- Stoughton, William
- Title:
- An Abstract, of Certain Acts of parliament: of certaine her Maiesties Iniunctions: of certain Canons, Constitutions, and Synodalles prouinciall: established and in force, for the peaceable gouernment of the Church [etc.]. S.T.C. 10394. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by Robert Waldegrave, London, 1583.
- Description:
- Part and parcel of the first substantial, organized Puritan opposition to the oath ex-officio and the High Commission, prompted specifically by Archbishop Whitgift's Twenty-Four Articles seeking to impose uniformity of liturgical observance
- Condition:
- Modern black morocco, all edges gilt, cut somewhat close with some running heads and catchwords shaved, the text unaffected, some browning; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-76910
- Price:
- $ 2750.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Hudson, John
- Title:
- The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volume II, 871-1216
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012.
- Description:
- The second volume in Oxford's ambitious new series under the General Editorship of Sir John Baker, devoted to late Anglo-Saxon England, to Anglo-Norman England, and to Angevin England, concluding with "Magna Carta and the Common Law"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-78486
- Price:
- $ 300.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, canon law, Anglo-Saxon law, MEDIEVAL, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Cosin, Richard
- Title:
- An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall . . . Respectiuelie submitted to the graue iudgements of the reuerend Iudges and other Sages of the Common lawe: of Iudicious Professors of the Viuill lawe [etc.]. S.T.C. 5821; Beale T249
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1593.
- Description:
- The much expanded, final edition of Cosin's most important work, "the standard defence of the jurisdiction of the church courts and high commission" and a major contribution to his distinguished career at the apex of the ecclesiastical court system
- Condition:
- Later calf, quite rubbed, light browning, the top margin cut close (a few running heads affected, but not legibility), sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78903
- Price:
- $ 1650.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Liber quorundam Canonum disciplinae ecclesiae Anglicanae. Anno 1571. S.T.C. 10037.5 [variant 2 with the cancel slip]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Day, London, 1571.
- Description:
- The first Latin printing comprising a second part of the revised 39 Articles of 1563, "established [by Elizabeth I] as the doctrinal foundations of the Church of England", to which clergy were ordered to subscribe by Act of Parliament in 1571
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, lightish staining, the lower margin cut close (no text affected), else clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79405
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXV Henrici Octaui. Actes made in the session of this present Parliament holden upon prorogation at Westminster [with] Anno XXVI [with] Anno XXVII [with] Anno XXVIII [1534-1536]. S.T.C. 9384.5, 9389.5, 9393.5, 9396.5; Beale S160, S167, S173, S179
- Publisher:
- T. Powell [and] T. Marsh, London, 1562-1575?.
- Description:
- The legislation central to the English Reformation under Henry VIII, including that confirming the final break with Rome and Henry as legally the Church of England's Supreme Head, dissolving the monasteries, and establishing the Act of Succession
- Condition:
- Modern panelled calf, lightly rubbed, else well preserved, the Goyder copy with his bookplate and dated ownership signature (1947); the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78956
- Price:
- $ 4750.00
- Category:
- Acts, Ecclesiastical Law, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- In re Williams versus Garbett. The Judgment of an Ecclesiastical Court
- Publisher:
- Printed and Published by J. Vincent, Oxford, 1842.
- Description:
- A rare tract, a sharp satire (appropriately in verse) of the contested 1842 election of the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, devolving into an ecclesiastical dispute and "mark[ing] the beginning of the decline of the Tractarian movement in Oxford"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a usable if somewhat fragile copy, 15 pages; no copy in COPAC, three in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-76870
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, Poetry
- Author:
- Cockburn, William
- Title:
- The Clerk's Assistant in the Practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts: Containing the Method of Proceedings there. Extracted from The best Books of Practice, And more regularly and clearly laid down than has hitherto been done [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Main, in Dame-Street, Dublin, 1753.
- Description:
- The rare first Dublin edition of a comprehensive work, praised by Holdsworth as "clear and concise", treating of criminal causes, divorce, guardians, libel and defamation, marriage (several chapters), and wills inter alia; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning and new endpapers, else quite crisp and well-preserved, with the subscribers list; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79075
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- biography, Ecclesiastical Law, SCOTLAND, marriage, divorce, libel and slander, criminal law
- Author:
- Lambard, William
- Title:
- Eirenarcha: Or of The Office of the Justices of Peace [etc.] [bound with] The Dueties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace [etc.]. S.T.C. 15169 and 15152; Beale T395 and T386
- Publisher:
- Printed by Thomas Wight, and Bonham Norton, London, 1599.
- Description:
- The last sixteenth century editions (and the last to appear during Lambarde's lifetime) of the pre-eminent early works on justices of the peace and other inferior local officials, the fruits of Lambarde's experience in the former capacity
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, somewhat rubbed, else well-preserved and especially crisp; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78793
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXIIII Henrici VIII. Actis made in the Session of this present parliament, holden uppon prorogation at Westmynstre . . . in the xxiiii yere of the reygne of . . . Kynge Henry the VIII [1533] [etc.]. Beale S150; S.T.C. 9377. Folio
- Publisher:
- In Aedibus Thomae Bertheleti Regii Impressoris [etc.], London, 1538.
- Description:
- The Parliament in which the first great step was taken to extinguish papal jurisdiction and power in England, ensuring that Henry's divorce would be determined by Cranmer's archepiscopal court, and leading to Henry's supremacy in the English Church
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, very light browning, else well preserved, five copies in ESTC, one with a mutilated imprint; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78521
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Acts, 16TH CENTURY, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Lambarde, William
- Title:
- Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Iustices of Peace [bound with] The Dvties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be adioyned, the seuerall offices of Church Ministers &c. STC 15171/15157
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1607 & 1606.
- Description:
- Early seventeenth century editions of Lambarde's two major works on justices of the peace and their complementary local officers, including surveyors of highways, overseers of the poor and destroyers of "noisome fowle and vermin"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, joints rubbed and just cracking but quite firm, spine ends a bit chipped, else fresh and very clean; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79272
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Ecclesiastical Law, poor law, law of highways, law of nuisance
- Author:
- Swinburne, Henry
- Title:
- A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes . . . Compiled of such lawes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this Realme, nor derogatorie to the Prerogative Royall [etc.]. S.T.C. 23547; Beale T498
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Windet, London, 1590.
- Description:
- First edition of the first work on the English law of wills, and the first work by an Englishman on English canon law, praised by J.H. Baker as "a model of clarity and scientific technique" and by David Yale as "a full and accomplished treatise"
- Condition:
- Modern dark brown calf, gilt-lettered, occasional light browning, else quite crisp and well preserved, without the errata leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-77590
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- Wills, Ecclesiastical Law, canon law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXXII. Henrici Octavi [1540] . . . the actes folowing by his highnesse, with thassent of the lordes spiritual and temporal, and the comons assembled in the sayd parliament, haue bene established, ordeyned and enacted. STC 9402 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- T. Powell?, London.
- Description:
- The legislation of the Parliament which included the Statute of Wills, "one of the most significant pieces of all English law", comprehensively restoring the power to devise real property and mitigating the effects of the Statute of Uses of 1536
- Condition:
- 19th century cloth, light browning, else quite well preserved, with the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield on the front pastedown; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79317
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Ecclesiastical Law, witchcraft, Wills
- Author:
- Hooker, Richard
- Title:
- Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie [bound with] Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie. The fift Booke. S.T.C. 13712 and 13712.5
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Windet [etc.] [imprints differ slightly], London, 1593 & 1597.
- Description:
- First editions of both parts of Hooker's monumental work, examining the underlying principles of the supremacy of law, thus in Holdsworth's words "of immense historical interest" and, given its subsequent impact, "of equal constitutional importance"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, ex-Christ Church Library, some staining, lacking two leaves, signatures of Thomas Serle and of ?J.N.L. Myers, else crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78882
- Price:
- $ 3500.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Statutes made in the Parliamente . . . in the first yere of . . . Edward VI [with the statutes of 2 and 3 Edw VI, 3 and 4 Edw VI, 5 and 6 Edw VI, and 7 Edw VI]. Five Volumes. S.T.C. 9421, 9423, 9429.7, 9437.5, and 9440.2. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1, 2, and 3] Richard Grafton; [4 and 5] Richard Tottel, London, 1547-70.
- Description:
- A collection of all the legislation of Edward VI's five parliaments, spanning his entire reign from 1547 to 1553, including that abolishing witchcraft, producing the Anglican Church's first prayer book, and increasing protection to accused traitors
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 and 3/4 differently colored calf and morocco, occasional staining and repairs, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-78702
- Price:
- $ 5000.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, witchcraft, criminal law, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Ridley, Thomas
- Title:
- A View of the Civile and Ecclesiastical Law, and wherein the practice of them is streitned and may be relieued within this Land. Written by Thomas Ridley Doctor of the Ciuile Law. S.T.C. 21054
- Publisher:
- Printed by [Adam Islip?] for the Company of Stationers, London, 1607.
- Description:
- First edition of the second treatise on English ecclesiastical law and the only edition appearing during Ridley's life, treating also of the law of admiralty, martial law, and international law; in Holdsworth's view "learned and clearly expressed"
- Condition:
- Modern crimson morocco, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, the title somewhat darkened, else quite a luscious binding; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79527
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, admiralty, international law, libel and slander
- Author:
- Lambarde, William
- Title:
- Eirenarcha, or of the Office of the Iustices of Peace [bound with] The Dvties of Constables, Borsholders, Tythingmen, and such other lowe and Lay Ministers of the Peace. Whereunto be adioyned, the seuerall offices of Church Ministers &c. STC 15172/15158
- Publisher:
- Printed for the Companie of Stationers, London, 1610.
- Description:
- Early seventeenth century editions of Lambarde's two major works on justices of the peace and their complementary local officers, including surveyors of highways, overseers of the poor and destroyers of "noisome fowle and vermin"
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, the first blanks frayed and the top margin cut a bit close, else quite fresh with the text block sound and tight; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79549
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Ecclesiastical Law, poor law, law of highways, law of nuisance
- Author:
- Godolphin, John
- Title:
- Repertorium Canonicum; Or An Abridgment of the Ecclesiatical Laws of this Realm, Consistent with the Temporal: Wherein The most Material Points relating to such Persons and Things . . . are succinctly Treated [etc.]. The Second Edition. Wing G950
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Roycroft, for Christopher Wilkinson [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- One of Godolphin's two principal works, covering all of canon and church law save succession, praised by Holdsworth as "the first really able books on ecclesiastical law"; with the new appendix on "daily Use and Practice in the Ecclesiastical Courts"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, the spine darkened and hand lettered, else quite clean and crisp, with the imprimatur leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79578
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Clerke, Francis
- Title:
- Praxis Francisci Clarke, Tam jus dicentibus quam allis omnibus qui in Foro Ecclesiastico versantur apprime utilis. Per Thomam Bladen S.T.D. Decanum Ardsertensim, Illustrissimo Principi Jacobo Duci Ormoniae [etc.]. Editio Secunda. Wing C4443
- Publisher:
- Excudebat T.B. Impensis Hannah Sawbridge . . . Ludgate Hill, London, 1684.
- Description:
- Only London edition of the first work on English ecclesiastical law, written in the 1590's and circulating widely in manuscript, in Professor Helmholz's praising words "used by practitioners as long as the courts about which he wrote flourished"
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, quite rubbed, the top of the front joint just cracked, worming to the last ten pages, else very clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79595
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Lawyers Library. A New Book of Instruments: Consisting of Precedents Fitted for the Use of Attorney, Ecclesiastical Persons, Scriveners, Merchants, Sollicitors, Owners of Ships, Mariners; And generally for all Persons . . . in Trade [etc.]. 2nd Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for R.V. and Sold by R. Gosling [and one other], London, 1709.
- Description:
- A rare work, arranged alphabetically by subject and represented as "Being the most Compleat Collection of its Bulk and Nature hitherto Extant", first appearing in 1680; one copy in ESTC, not containing the advertising leaf present in this copy
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered calf, quite rubbed, new endpapers, a bit of marginal staining, else quite clean, with the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79626
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- conveyancing, Ecclesiastical Law, maritime law, Forms & Form Books
- Author:
- Title:
- The Duke of Norfolk's Case: With Reasons for Passing his Bill. Wing D2514
- Publisher:
- No publisher stated, London?, 1699?.
- Description:
- A rare part of a major Parliamentary divorce case, one involving England's premier dukedom (and two admitted adulterers), and possibly the first divorce bill in English history not first to pass through the ecclesiastical courts; four copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Broadsheet measuring about 8x13 inches, browned, edges chipped and one margin strengthened, all legibility preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79642
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- divorce, marriage, adultery, Acts, Parliament, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Articles to be enquired of in the visitation, in the First yeere of the Raign of our most dread Soueraign Ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno Dom. 1559. S.T.C. 10133; Beale T251. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by the Assignement of Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1600.
- Description:
- The final printing of the visitation articles supplementing the injunctions and the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity enacted in Elizabeth's first parliament and "complet[ing] the settlement of religion upon which the Church of England is based"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt ruled, decorated, and lettered, printed in black letter and quite clean; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79648
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Meriton, George
- Title:
- The Touchstone of Wills, Testaments, and Administrations. Being a Compendium of Cases and Resolutions Touching the same. Carefully collected out of the Ecclesiastical, Civil and Canon Laws [etc.]. Third Edition. Wing M1813. 12mo
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Leak, A. Roper, F. Tyton [and six others], London, 1674.
- Description:
- Final edition of the first general, introductory guidebook to the English law of wills, designed for the layperson (as Swinburne's treatise is not), written by the North Riding attorney perhaps best known for his poem "In Praise of York-shire Ale"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked, the margins cut close (legibility preserved), a bit of minor marginal worming, clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79681
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Wills, Ecclesiastical Law, canon law, civil law
- Author:
- Title:
- To the Kings most Excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Peeres now assembled in Parliament. The Humble Petition and Protestation of all the Bishops and Prelates now called by His Majesties Writts to attend the Parliament [etc.]. Not in Wing; ESTC R226217
- Publisher:
- Printed for Joseph Hunscutt, London, 1642.
- Description:
- The rare broadside whose contents formed the basis of high treason charges brought against the bishops for "subvert[ing] the fundamental laws of the kingdom", thereby contributing in part to the outbreak of England's civil war; one copy in ESTC
- Condition:
- Broadside measuring about 9 1/2 x 13 inches, lightly browned, some chips and tears, top left margin trimmed, but legibility preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79671
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Broadside, legal ephemera, Ecclesiastical Law, Parliament, English constitutional law, criminal law
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