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- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Sparrow, Anthony (comp.)
- Title:
- A Collection of Articles Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, and Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with other Publick Records of the Church of England; Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VIth, Q. Elizabeth and K. James [etc.]. Wing C4093A
- Publisher:
- Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait [etc.], London, 1661.
- Description:
- A copy complete through page 60 only, containing all six works of the reign of King Edward VI--his injunctions, the order of communion service, both Cranmer and Ridley's Articles of Visitation, and the Articles of Religion, both in English and Latin
- Condition:
- Modern calf, circular stamp on title, light browning, else sound, with the Foyle bookplate and the frontispiece of The Scale of Armes of the Bishops
- Book No.:
- W-79820
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- Ecclesiastical Law
- 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:
- 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, 1591.
- 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:
- 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:
- Anno Regni Caroli II . . . Decimo Quinto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eight day of May, Anno Dom. 1661 . . . And there continued . . .in the 15th year . . . And thence Prorogued to the 16th of March then next following. Not in Wing or ESTC
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1663.
- Description:
- The acts of the Cavalier Parliament's second session, including the act explaining the Act of Uniformity [c.1] and the 1663 Navigation Act [c.7], part of the legislation "form[ing] the basis for . . . British overseas trade for nearly 200 years"
- Condition:
- Modern calf, morocco label gilt, some browning, else quite sound, fourteen public and twelve public acts, with the table, 312 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79983
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- Acts, Parliament, Commercial Law, international law, Ecclesiastical Law
- Author:
- Gardiner, Robert
- Title:
- Enhiridion [sic] Clericale: Or, A Manual of proper and useful Precedents in Clerkship, Relating to Contracts and Agreements, Obligations, Recognizances and Statutes . . . With Directions to sue out Fines, Recoveries, and to the Outlawry [etc.]. 2d Ed
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assignee of Edw. Sayer . . . for John Walthoe [&c], London, 1712.
- Description:
- The rare final edition of Gardiner's omnium gatherum, conceivably designed to summarize in one volume ("multum in parvo") his massive 'Intructor Clericalis', treating of dozens of subjects and providing precedents for use in all the royal courts
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, the spine a bit marked and its bottom just chipped, light browning, else well preserved with the advertising leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80164
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Forms & Form Books, contracts, landlord and tenant, legal dictionaries, Wills, Ecclesiastical Law
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