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- 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:
- Cunningham, Timothy
- Title:
- The Law of Simony: Containing, All the Statutes, Cases at Large, Arguments, Resolutions, and Judgments concerning it [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:
- 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:
- The Clerk's Instructor in the Ecclesiastical Courts: Consisting Of a Variety of the best Precedents in English now made use of in the Practice of the Civil Law . . . Also A Treatise concerning Pluralities . . . and of Retainder of Chaplains [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1740.
- Description:
- The uncommon first edition of a work reminding us of the popular conception of church courts as 'bawdy courts', treating in part of incest, impotency, adultery, cruelty and divorce, as well as defamation, wills, and all matters of church business
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, spine ends a bit chipped, rear joint cracked but firm, else clean and bright with the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79038
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law, criminal law, adultery, divorce, defamation, Wills
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Title:
- Iniunccions geuen by the moste excellent prince, Edward the sixte, by the grace of God, kyng of England, Fraunce and Irelande . . . To all and singuler his louyng subiectes, as well of the Clergie, as of the Laietie. S.T.C. 10090.3
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Richard Grafton [etc.], London, 1547.
- Description:
- The first efforts to reform the English church under Edward VI, the popular reception of which remains debated, with the requirement of clergy celibacy ended, church property defaced or destroyed, chantries abolished and processions banned inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern boards, the joints frayed and beginning to crack, but sound, some browning, elaborate contemporary gloss, Goyder bookplate; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78950
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- 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:
- A Booke of certaine Canons, concernyng some parte of the discipline of the Churche of England. In the yeare of our Lord 1571. S.T.C. 10063
- Publisher:
- Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, London, 1571.
- Description:
- A rare printing of the 1571 canons, describing the duties of bishops, deans of churches, archdeacons, churchwardens, preachers, and schoolmasters, inter alia, concluding with the sentence of excommunication; two copies in ESTC in this country
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, lightly browned, else quite crisp with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78980
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Guernsey, R.S.
- Title:
- Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet:--The Burial of Ophelia
- Publisher:
- AMS Press, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- The facsimile reissue of the paper read before The Shakespeare Society of New York on June 9, 1885, and then published by Brentano Bros for the Society
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-78982
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- Shakespeare, Ecclesiastical Law, law of burial
- Author:
- Title:
- Advertisements partly for due order in the publique administration of common prayers and usinge the holy Sacramentes, and partly for the apparrell of all persons ecclesiasticall, by vertue of the Queenes maiesties letters commanding the same. STC 10027
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Reginalde Wolfe, London, 1565?.
- Description:
- One of two first printings of the 1564 Advertisements, an important part of which were then to be incorporated in the Canons of 1604 and, consequently, to be embodied in the Constitution of the English Church over the ensuing centuries
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, the outer margins of the last two leaves somewhat chipped and frayed, else well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78995
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- 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:
- Johnson, John
- Title:
- Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, or Rescripts . . . of the Church of England, From its first Foundation to the Conquest . . . Now first Translated into English with Explanatory Notes [etc.]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Knaplock . . . and Samuel Ballard [etc.], London, 1720.
- Description:
- The last work of Johnson, "a very able writer", sufficiently valuable to be reissued in a new edition over a century subsequently, in 1850, with Johnson's notes supplemented by those glosses from Lyndwood and Athone "thought most useful"
- Condition:
- Modern brown cloth, gilt, definite browning, ex-library, one signature loose in volume one; a usable set only
- Book No.:
- W-72775
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Athon [Ayton, Acton, Aton], John
- Title:
- Constitutiones Legitime seu Legatine Regionis Anglicane: cum Subtillissima Interpretatione D[omini] Johannis de Athon: Tripliciq[ue] Tabella. Necnon et [Con]stitutiones Prouinciales ab Archiepiscopis Cantuariensibus [etc.]. S.T.C. 17108; Beale T404
- Publisher:
- Wulfgangi Hopilii [etc.], Paris, 1504.
- Description:
- First edition of the first major treatise on Anglican canon law, written in the early fourteenth century, a work which, in John Baker's words, "might well claim to be one of the most visually attractive law books ever published . . . in England"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt lettered, the margins of the last leaf repaired, else well-preserved, with the title printed in red and black; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78686
- Price:
- $ 4000.00
- Category:
- canon law, Ecclesiastical Law
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