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- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal in the Case of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other bishops] [with] The Tryals of Henry Cornish, Esq; for Conspiring the Death of the King, And raising a Rebellion [etc.]. Wing P3555A and T2250. Folio
- Publisher:
- [1] Printed for Thomas Basset [2] Printed . . . by George Croom, London, 1689 & 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of one of the great cases of English law, confirming Parliament's right to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation, coupled with the trial of the London sheriff whose execution "secured his place in the pantheon of whig martyrs"
- Condition:
- Modern vellum slightly bowed, the title pages quite darkened, the portrait of the bishops trimmed and repaired, a working copy; with the errata slip
- Book No.:
- W-78150
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- The Proceedings and Tryal [of the Seven Bishops] [with] Atkyns, An Inquiry into the Power of Dispensing with Penal Statutes [with] Atkyns, The Power, Jurisdiction and Priviledge of Parliament [with] Langhorne, King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws
- Publisher:
- Imprints vary; Wing S564, A4138, A4141, and L396, all folios, London, 1687-89.
- Description:
- Four works central to English constitutional law and the Glorius Revolution, establishing the right of Parliament to legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, with the portrait and two advertising leaves (one repaired), generally clean and well preserved; the Taussig copies
- Book No.:
- W-79360
- Price:
- $ 1000.00
- Category:
- trials, English constitutional law, Religion
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- The Offices and Duties of Constables, Borsholders, Tything-men, Treasurers of the County-stock, Overseers for the Poore, and other lay-Ministers. Whereunto are adjoyned the severall Offices of Church-Ministers and Churchwardens. Wing S3200
- Publisher:
- Printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne . . . for William Cooke [etc.], London, 1641.
- Description:
- First edition of Sheppard's first work, anticipating his many efforts as Cromwell's law reformer and "containing an important part of his philosophy of government", including two chapters on prisons and a final two (100+ pages) on church officials
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, somewhat rubbed, neatly rebacked, the original flyleaves (with jottings and squiggles) preserved, quite crisp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79085
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- English Commonwealth, INDIA, Religion, poor law, prisons
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Caroli II Regis . . . Decimo Quarto. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth day of May, Anno Dom. 1661 . . . And there continued . . . And thence Prorogued to the 18th of February then next following. Not in Wing. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1662.
- Description:
- The rare complete record of the first, major legislation of the Restoration's Cavalier Parliament, including the Licensing of the Press Act (c.33), the Act of Uniformity (c.4), and the Act for Better Relief of the Poor (c.12); five copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, clean and well preserved with generous margins and the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79476
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, freedom of press, criminal law, Religion, poor law
- Author:
- Meriton, George
- Title:
- The Parson's Monitor, Consisting of such Cases and Matters as principally concern the Clergy. Collected from the Statute and Common Laws; as also the Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical . . . necessary to be known by the Clergy [etc.]. Wing M1808
- Publisher:
- Printed by the Assigns of Richard and Edw. Atkins [etc.], London, 1681.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the only work on the religious aspects of the law by Meriton, a Yorkshire attorney (and grandson of a clergyman), building and expanding upon the treatises of John Dodderidge, of William Hughes, and, in particular, of Simon Degge
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered sheep, worn and a bit shaken, the spine snagged, marginal staining, else very clean and easily usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79818
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, XII & XIII. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Sixth Day of February, Anno Dom 1700 . . . being the First Session of this present Parliament. ESTC N53550; not in ECCO. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb [&c], London, 1701 [1702].
- Description:
- The Parliament whose acts included the Act of Settlement, one of "the last great constitutional documents in English history", circumscribing the crown's powers, establishing the judiciary's independence, and requiring Church of England communion
- Condition:
- Contemporary mottled panelled calf, rubbed, joints just cracking but firm, with the bookplate of Thomas Wentworth dated 1712; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78758
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- Religion, Acts
- Author:
- Wallis, Ralph
- Title:
- More News from Rome or Magna Charta, Discoursed of between a Poor Man & his Wife . . . An Assertion of Dr. William Warmstrey . . . wherein he affirmeth, that It is a lesser sin for a man to kill his Father, than to refrain coming to the Divine Service
- Publisher:
- for the Author, for the only benefit of his Wife and Children, London, 1666.
- Description:
- One of the few surviving works of Wallis, the radical protestant called the Cobbler of Gloucester, invoking Magna Charta as part of his vituperative attack on the Church of England and "the scandalous and shameful conduct of Anglican clergyman"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, definite browning and the margins cut close, but clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78007
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Magna Carta, Religion, Radicals
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXXVII. Henrici Octavi. Statutes Made in the parliament, holden at Westminster in the XXXVII yere [1545] of the moste renowned Henry the eyght, by the grace of God kinge of England, Fraunce, and Irelande [etc.]. Beale S214; S.T.C. 9414.5. Folio
- Publisher:
- T. Marsh?], London, 1575?].
- Description:
- The last early printing of the acts of the last Parliament of Henry VIII, twenty-four chapters in total, introducing for the first time in England a lawful interest rate (10%), the laws against usury remaining in effect until their repeal in 1854
- Condition:
- Modern cloth-backed marbled boards, some staining, else crisp; eight copies in STC, including this, the Hetherington (now the Taussig) copy
- Book No.:
- W-78541
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion, law of usury
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Most Gracious Speech To both Houses of Parliament, On Saturday the Sixteenth of March, 1688 [1689]. Wing W2372H. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Bill, and Thomas Newcomb [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The attempt by William III, only partly successful, to remove disabilities attendant on all protestants "willing and able to serve" (and expressly excluding Roman Catholics), leading to the Act of Toleration and its receiving royal assent in late May
- Condition:
- Title with order to print on verso + pages 3-4, disbound, the two leaves almost separating, light marginal staining, usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79604
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, Glorious Revolution
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXI. Henrici VIII. Statvta ad rempspectantia, edita in prima sessione parliamenti . . . tertio die Nouembris . . . continuati per xliiii dies, videlicet vsque ad xvii diem Decembris [1529] [etc.]. S.T.C. 9366.5; not in Beale. Folio
- Publisher:
- In Aedibus Thomae Bertheleti Regii Impressoris. Cvm Privilegio, London, 1536(?).
- Description:
- A rare printing of the acts of the first session of the Reformation Parliament, "clearly one of the most important assemblies ever to gather in England", ultimately leading to the rejection of papal authority and to the Anglican Church's independence
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning, a trace of marginal worming, else well-preserved, one copy in STC; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78517
- Price:
- $ 2750.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion
- Author:
- Banner, Richard
- Title:
- A Treatise of Simony. Wherein is enquired, How far the Practice of Buying and Selling of Presentations, so common in this Kingdom, may come under the Notion of it [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Watts in Bow-street, Covent Garden, London, 1716.
- Description:
- A rare tract condemning simony (the form of ecclesiastical corruption said to have been named after Simon Magus), relying on Coke, Gibson, and Lyndwood, inter alia, and associating simony with both perjury and breach of trust; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, resewn and repaired, lightish staining and pencil underlining, margins cut close (legibility preserved), else a good copy; 42 pp
- Book No.:
- W-76188
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Ano Regni Iacobi . . . At the second Session of Parliament . . . in the third yeere of the raigne of our most gracious Soueraigne Lord Iames . . . proroged until the 18 of Nouember next following 1606 [etc.]. S.T.C. 9502 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1606.
- Description:
- The acts of the parliament following the foiled Gunpowder Plot and the attempted assassination of James I, making it high treason for Catholics to obey Rome, prohibiting their practise of law or medicine, and imposing other severe restrictions [c.4]
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, the title's woodcut and some running heads shaved, some browning, else sound, without the subsidies acts; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79519
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Acts, criminal law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno secundo et tertio, Edovardi Sexti [1549]. Actes made in the session of this present Parliament, holden upon prorogation at Westminster . . . in the second yeare of our most dread soueraign Lorde Edwarde the vi [etc.]. Beale S224a; S.T.C. 9426
- Publisher:
- Richardvs Graftonvs [i.e. Richard Tottel], London, 1570?.
- Description:
- The Parliament whose first act "produced the first Prayer Book of the Church of England", ushered in by its Act of Uniformity, thus beginning the Edwardian Reformation in religion, to be supplemented by the act [c.21] permitting priests to marry
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, minor worming, else well preserved with ample margins, the second setting of Fii; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79210
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno xxxv. Reginae Elizabethae. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the xix day of Februarie, in the fiue and thirtieth yeere [1593] of the Reigne of . . . Ladie Elizabeth . . . were enacted as followeth. S.T.C. 9491 [including this copy]
- Publisher:
- Imprinted . . . by the Deputies of Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1593.
- Description:
- The parliament enacting severe punishments upon Puritan sectaries ("a vicious act" in G.R. Elton's words), potentially leading to exile or hanging [c.1] and, separately, forbidding Catholics from moving more than five miles from their homes [c.2]
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning and some staining (mainly marginal), without the subsidies and pardon; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79416
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion, criminal law
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Vicesimo Secundo Henrici Octavi. Statvta Bonvm Pvblicvm Concernentia Edita in perliamento tento apud westm[inster] xvi die Ianuarii . . . et inde vlterius prorogati vsque ad xiii die Octobris [1531]. S.T.C. 9370.6 (including this copy); not in Beale
- Publisher:
- Tho. Berthelet regius impressor excudebat. Cvm Privilegio, London, 1547?].
- Description:
- The second Reformation Parliament, laying the groundwork for the divorce of Catherine of Aragon, enacting the landmark statute "fac[ing] the necessity of providing for the impotent poor", and challenging the independent jurisdiction of the Church
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, light pencil notations, generally well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78518
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- poor law, Religion, divorce
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Tertio Henrici VIII . . . at his parlyamente holden at westminster . . . hath, doo, to be ordeined, made, and enacted, certaine statutes and ordynaunces in manner and fourme folowinge. S.T.C. 9362.2 [this copy the Hetherington copy, there recorded]
- Publisher:
- Printed by T. Marshe?, London, 1575?.
- Description:
- The final sixteenth century printing of the acts of this parliament [only, without the acts through year 7], including the act against mummers disguising their appearance [c.9] and that seeking to limit sheriff abuses directed toward juries [c.12]
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 morocco over cloth boards, the inner margins strengthened and repaired, very light browning, else sound; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79315
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion, sheriffs, juries, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Gracious Speech To both Houses of Parliament, On Wednesday, February the 18th 1662 [1663]. Being the first day of their meeting after their Prorogation. Wing C3048; ESTC R5549. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1663.
- Description:
- The speech made by Charles II at the opening of the fourth session of the Cavalier Parliament, his "great effort . . . to relieve peaceful nonconformists and Catholics", to fail utterly , religious toleration not achieved, even in part, until 1688
- Condition:
- ?Original printed self wraps, disbound, reinforced at the margin, some browning, but sound, title + pages 3-6 + colophon leaf; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79951
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Primo Henrici Octaui . . . at his parliament holden at Westminster . . . hath do to be ordeined, made, and enacted certaine statutes and ordinaunces in maner & fourme folowyng [1510]. S.T.C. 9360.5 [including this copy]; Beale S114
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Powell, London, 1563?.
- Description:
- The acts of Henry VIII's first parliament, strengthening the rule of law by condemning the actions of Empson and Dudley in Henry VII's reign [c.12] and repealing the trial of non-capital statutory offences upon information without indictment [c.6]
- Condition:
- Modern unlettered cloth, rubbed and somewhat worn, a good copy with ample margins and the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79308
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion, criminal law, English constitutional law
- Author:
- Title:
- The Land-Purchaser's Companion: And the Laws Relating to Tenants and Tenures. Containing I. The Years Purchase all sorts of Lands, Tenements, Rents, Reversions, &c are worth . . . To which are added. The Laws and Statutes relating to Tithes [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1720.
- Description:
- A primer with an uncommon focus, directed at potential purchasers prior to the South Sea Bubble bursting, providing a guide to valuing land and to associated legal problems, though prudently (and prophetically) suggesting a quite different future
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered blind ruled and decorated calf, somewhat marked and stained, light browning, else quite well preserved; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79728
- Price:
- $ 1350.00
- Category:
- Real Property, landlord and tenant, Abridgements, Religion, economics
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Most Gracious Speech, Together with the Lord Chancellors, To the Two Houses of Parliament, at Their Prorogation, On Monday the Nineteenth of May, 1662. Wing C3170. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed, by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1662.
- Description:
- The speeches which evidenced Charles II's failure to achieve a measure of religious toleration, with the first session of the Cavalier Parliament prorogued and Machiavelli invoked ("an Author much studied . . . in this Kingdom") as a warning
- Condition:
- ?Original printed self wraps, disbound, definite browning, sound and usable, 23 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79875
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- ENGLAND, Parliament, Religion, ITALY, political theory
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno XXXI. Henrici Octavi. Henry the eyght . . . helde his moste high court of Parliament, begonne at Westminster the xxviii day of Apryl [1539] . . . wherin were established these actes following. Beale S186; S.T.C. 9400.3 [with E6, blank]
- Publisher:
- Tho. Berthelet regius impressor excudebat [i.e. T. Marsh], London, 1575?].
- Description:
- The Parliament which confirmed the dissolution of the monasteries, vesting their lands in the Crown, "Tudor government at its most planned and efficient" in G.E. Elton's words; with the complementary act bringing all monks back from the legally dead
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 black morocco over blue boards, gilt, somewhat rubbed and chipped, light browning and a bit of marginal staining, yet crisp with good margins
- Book No.:
- W-72597
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Acts, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King and Queen. A Proclamation . . . That all Persons being Protestants . . . in the Offices of Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace [and other offices] shall hold themselves continued in the said Offices [etc.]. Wing W2522; Steele I, 3964
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Starkey and Awnsham Churchill [etc.], London, 1689.
- Description:
- The proclamation given on Feb 14 1689, two days after the Houses of Parliament had agreed on a Declaration of Rights and the day following William and Mary being offered and accepting the crown--as "the first stage of the Revolution was complete"
- Condition:
- Broadside about 8x11 inches, one vertical fold, light browning, else well preserved, the variant with the factotum containing flowers; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79487
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Religion, sheriffs, justices of peace
- Author:
- Title:
- Anno Vicesimo Secvndo Henrici Octavi. Statvta Bonvm Pvblicvm Concernentia Edita in perliamento tento apud westm[inster] xvi die Ianuarii . . . et inde vlterius prorogati vsque ad xiiii die Octobris [1531]. S.T.C. 9370.4 [five copies, one imperfect]
- Publisher:
- Tho. Berthelet regius impressor excudebat. Cvm Privilegio, London, 1540?].
- Description:
- The second Reformation Parliament, laying the groundwork for the divorce of Catherine of Aragon, enacting the landmark statute "fac[ing] the necessity of providing for the impotent poor", and challenging the independent jurisdiction of the Church
- Condition:
- Modern maroon unlettered cloth, rubbed, else quite a clean copy with the bookplate of Edwin Freshfield on the front pastedown; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79312
- Price:
- $ 1650.00
- Category:
- poor law, Religion, divorce
- Author:
- Hale, Matthew
- Title:
- Several Tracts . . . viz, I. A Discourse of Religion on Three Heads II. A Treatise touching Provision for the Poor III. A Letter to his Children, Advising them how to behave themselves in their Speech IV. A Letter to one of his Sons [etc.]. Wing H259
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Playford for W. Shrowsbery [etc.], London, 1684.
- Description:
- Four works reflecting Hale's wide-ranging thinking and humanity, including the "most considered summary of his later religious ideas" and his plan ("well in advance of his times") for a public trading corporation to alleviate unemployment
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, rebacked, a few markings, else quite sound, with separate title pages for all but the first work; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78111
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- poor law, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- By the King. A Proclamation commanding the due execution of the Lawes made against Eating and Selling of Flesh in Lent, and other times prohibited. S.T.C. 8984; Steele 1, 642; Lincoln's Inn Catalogue of Pamphlets 1506-1700 234
- Publisher:
- Imprinted at London by Robert Barker [etc.], London, 1632.
- Description:
- The proclamation "polic[ing] with some vigour" those who ate or sold flesh in Lent, restoring a religious element to the prohibitions first enacted in 1548, with the situation in England "exceptional within the Protestant world" and much debated
- Condition:
- Two broadsides, each measuring about 12x15 inches, light browning, one horizontal fold, well preserved in a modern buckram folder; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79674
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Broadside, legal ephemera, Religion
- Author:
- Sheppard, William
- Title:
- The Parsons Guide: Or the Law of Tythes. Wherein is shewed, Who must pay Tythes, and to whom, and of what things, When, and How they must be paid, and how they may be recovered at this day, and how a man may be discharged of payment thereof. Wing S3206
- Publisher:
- Printed for W. Lee, H. Twyford, T. Collins [and two others], London, 1670.
- Description:
- Penultimate edition of Sheppard's work initially written to support the Protectorate's financial exigencies, Sheppard contending in this expanded edition that "the origins of tithes were founded in English custom, dating to the ancient Saxon church"
- Condition:
- Original unlettered sheep, rubbed but quite clean, presentation copy--"For Simon Degge" [whose Parsons Counsellor appeared in 1676]; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80040
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Religion, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Tillesley, Richard
- Title:
- Animadversions upon M. Seldens History of Tythes, And His Review Thereof . . . Maintaining the Ius divinum of Tythes or more, to be payd to the Priesthood under the Gospell. S.T.C. 24073. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill, London, 1619.
- Description:
- First edition of the first major response to the work of Selden which David Berkowitz termed "his greatest work [and] one of the triumphs of Renaissance learning", vigorously criticizing Selden's legal analysis and his use of historical sources
- Condition:
- Contemporary vellum, unevenly darkened, later label, red edges, quite crips and bright with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80024
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- Lex Londinensis; or, The City Law. Shewing the Powers, Customs and Practice Of all the several Courts Belonging to the Famous City of London . . . Together With several Acts of Common Councel, very useful and necesary to be known by all [&c]. Wing L1858
- Publisher:
- Printed by S. Roycroft for Henry Twyford [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- Only edition of an early work devoted to London and its courts, ten of which are treated, including the Lord Mayor's Court, the Court of Hustings, the Sheriffs Court, the Court of Alderman, the Court of Conscience, and the Orphan's Court inter alia
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind panelled calf, red edges, somewhat rubbed, neatly repaired, else quite clean with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80058
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- London, courts, infants, Religion, sheriffs
- Author:
- Title:
- His Majesties Gracious Speech to the Lords & Commons, Together with the Lord Chancellor's, At the opening of the Parliament, On the 8th day of May, 1661. Wing C3017. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker [etc.], London, 1661.
- Description:
- The speech in which Charles II announces his proposed marriage to Catherine of Braganza, cementing England's relations with Portugal and France as against Spain, the potential religious conflict (Catherine a Roman Catholic) skilfully downplayed
- Condition:
- ?Original self wraps, disbound, definite browning, the title's lower right blank corner torn away, else usable, with the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80070
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Parliament, marriage, PORTUGAL, international law, FRANCE, SPAIN, Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- A Briefe Declaration For What manner of speciall Nusance concerning private dwelling houses, a man may have his remedy . . .Opinions of foure famous Sages [Manwood, Monson, Plowden, and Wray] [with] The Iustices of Assise their Opinion [etc.]. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for William Cooke [etc.]; STC 6453 [including this copy], London, 1636.
- Description:
- The arguments in a seminal case on the law of nuisance [Hale's Case], including nonfeasance as nuisance, followed by the resolutions of the justices on 35 queries involving the poor, including vagrants, rogues, bastards, and infants inter alia
- Condition:
- Modern calf, gilt lettered, light browning else well preserved, the Kenney copy with its shelf label, without the final blank; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80076
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- justices of peace, Religion, poor law, law of nuisance, criminal law, Juvenile Law
- Author:
- Langhorne, Richard
- Title:
- Considerations Touching The Great Question of the King's Right in Dispensing with The Penal Laws. Written On the Occasion of His Late Blessed Majesties granting Free Toleration and Indulgence. Wing L396. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by H.H. for the Assigns of R. Langhorne [etc.], London, 1687.
- Description:
- The work written in defense of Charles II's 1672 Declaration of Indulgence, Langhorne "a Roman Catholic barrister of considerable eminence", later implicated in the Popish Plot, executed for treason, and beatified in 1929 by Pope Pius XI
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 sheep over brown boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, the spine gilt ruled and lettered, quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80106
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, trials
- Author:
- Johnson, John
- Title:
- The Clergy-Man's Vade Mecum: Or, an Account of the Antient and Present Church of England; the Duties and Rights of the Clergy' and of Their Privileges and Hardships . . . which they commonly meet with in the Discharge of their Office. ESTC T118660. 12mo
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Nicholson [and two others], London, 1706.
- Description:
- First edition of by far the most popular work of Johnson, the "able theological writer", appearing in at least ten separate printings over a quarter century, with his works generally influential well into the 19th century, especially among non-jurors
- Condition:
- Contemporary unlettered panelled calf, rubbed, the joints cracking but quite firm, early signature of W. Clarke, clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80122
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Wood, Thomas
- Title:
- A Dialogue between Mr. Prejudice, A Dissenting Country Gentleman, and Mr. Reason, A Student in the University: Being A short Vindication of the University from Popery, and an Answer to some Objections concerning the D of Y [Duke of York to become James II]
- Publisher:
- Printed for T. Sawbridge, London, 1682.
- Description:
- Only edition of Wood's first work, as he "gained a reputation as a controversialist", here debating in the most provocative terms ("an Usurper, Impostour, Son of the Whore"), the foreseeable accession of James II to the throne and Popery at Oxford
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, bookplate of Frederic Morrell, signature on title effaced and one leaf stained; the Taussig copy, Wing W3408
- Book No.:
- W-80159
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Religion
- Author:
- Title:
- The Modern Parish Officer . . . A Work essentially necessary for Constables, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, Surveyors of the Highways, Justices of the Peace, Attornies, Headboroughs, Tithingmen, Sidesmen, Vestrymen, Scavengers [etc.]. ESTC N5044
- Publisher:
- Printed by W. Strahan, and M. Woodfall [etc.], London, 1774.
- Description:
- The rare first edition of a work aimed at local officials -- and at the general public as a safeguard against them -- "who too frequently want to exercise an Authority which they are not warranted to do by law"; four copies in ESTC, one in the UK
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, crimson morocco label, double gilt ruled and lettered, very clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80172
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Religion, poor law, law of highways, justices of peace, Every Man Law Books
- Author:
- Haward, Lazarus
- Title:
- The Charges Issuing forth of the Crown Revenue of England and Dominion of Wales. With the several Officers of his Majesties Courts, Customs, Housholds . . . Forrests, Parks, Chases . . . And also the valuation the Bishops, and Deanes Lands [etc.]. Wing H1164
- Publisher:
- Printed for M. Wright . . . in the Old Bailey; ESTC R202381, London, 1660.
- Description:
- Haward's estimable, empirical effort to set forth the sources of Royal revenue, beginning with that of the Royal courts, at the Restoration, part of the attempt to predict and to revive the economy of England following the costs of the civil war
- Condition:
- Later 1/2 crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt, rubbed, minor marginal worming, with the bookplate of John Newling; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80203
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- economics, WALES, Religion, Natural Resources
- Author:
- Crook, John
- Title:
- A True Information To the Nation, from the People called Quakers. Being a Brief account of the Proceedings Of some of the Magistrates in and about this City of London, Against the aforesaid People [in] 1664 [etc.]. Wing C7216. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed in the Year 1664, London, 1664.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the account by the noted Quaker leader and writer of the enforcement in London of the Conventicle Act [16 Charles II c.4] --forbidding non-Church of England religious assemblies of five or more--to lead to his own Newgate imprisonment
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 calf over marbled boards, black morocco label, gilt ruled and lettered, browning, else quite sound with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80198
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, freedom of religion, Quakers and the Law, prisons
- Author:
- Crook, John
- Title:
- A True Information To the Nation, from the People called Quakers. Being a Brief account of the Proceedings Of some of the Magistrates in and about this City of London, Against the aforesaid People [in] 1664 [etc.]. Wing C7216. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed in the Year 1664, London, 1664.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the account by the noted Quaker leader and writer of the enforcement in London of the Conventicle Act [16 Charles II c.4] --forbidding non-Church of England religious assemblies of five or more--to lead to his own Newgate imprisonment
- Condition:
- Later 1/4 calf over marbled boards, black morocco label, gilt ruled and lettered, browning, else quite sound with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80198
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, freedom of religion, Quakers and the Law, prisons
- Author:
- Woodward, Josiah
- Title:
- An Account of the Societies for Reformation of Manners . . . to Persons of all Ranks, to Be Zealous and Diligent in Promoting the Execution of the Laws against Prophaneness and Debauchery [etc.] [with the Abstract of the Penal Laws]. Wing W3512; ESTC R31843
- Publisher:
- Printed for B. Aylmar, at the Three Pigeons in Cornhill [etc.], London, 1699.
- Description:
- First edition of the highly popular work of Woodward, the first historian of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, confirming his reputation as seeking society's moral reformation, with his writings to be reprinted throughout the 18th century
- Condition:
- ?Contemporary gilt panelled mottled calf, the joints just cracking but very firm, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, very pretty; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80246
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion, legal reform
- Author:
- Title:
- An Answer To the severall Petitions Of late exhibited to the High Court of Parliament, And to his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell, By the poor Husband-men, Farmers, and Tenants . . . of England, for the taking away of Tithes, paid to Priests [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for J.M. and J.A. at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, London, 1652.
- Description:
- One of two subjects of proposed major reform during the Commonwealth (the other the reform of the law), neither accomplished until the 19th century, this tract defending the existing, compulsory payment of tithes to support the established church
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 crimson morocco, definite browning but sound, with the Fairfax of Cameron bookplate, Wing A3446, the Second Impression; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80276
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- Religion, agriculture, landlord and tenant, poor law, Parliament, English Commonwealth, legal reform
- Author:
- Brydall, John
- Title:
- The Clergy Vindicated, or the Rights and Privileges That belong to them, Asserted; According to the Laws of England. More Paritcularly, touching the Sitting of Bishops in Parliament; and their making Proxies in Capital Cases. Wing B5255. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by E.T. and R.H., London, 1679.
- Description:
- Sole edition of the only work of Brydall's exclusively devoted to English ecclesiastical law, "reflect[ing his] very wide range of jurisprudential expertise", succinctly describing the rights, powers, and duties of both superior and inferior clergy
- Condition:
- Modern paper boards, printed paper label, somewhat marked, some browning, mainly lightish, else well preserved with ample margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80282
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Religion, criminal law, capital punishment, Parliament
- Author:
- Womock [Womack], Laurence
- Title:
- Billa Vera: Or, the Arraignment of Ignoramus. Put forth out of Charity, for the use of Grand Inquests and Other Jury's; The Sworn Assertors of Truth and Justice. In a Letter to a Friend. Wing W3340. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1682.
- Description:
- Only edition of Womock's critical response to Edward Whitaker's 'The Ignoramus Justices', Womack "asserting the need for strict conformity and loyalty to the Anglican establishment", no concessions to be extended to Dissenters nor to Roman Catholics
- Condition:
- ?Original self stabbed wraps, disbound, some browning, an occasional notation, else sound with ample margins, 34 pages; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80336
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Religion, juries
- Author:
- Grantham, Thomas
- Title:
- A Motion against Imprisonment, Wherein is proved that Imprisonment for debt is against the Gospel, against the good of Church, and Commonwealth. Wing G1559. Quarto. No copy in EEBO
- Publisher:
- Printed at London for Francis Coules, London, 1642.
- Description:
- The rare, sole printing of the only work of legal content of Grantham (translator of Homer in verse), in which "he used arguments of pure sense", describing imprisonment for debt a "cruell and inhuman act"; six copies in ESTC, none in a law library
- Condition:
- Original printed ?self-wraps, disbound, definite browning and some marginal staining, else quite legible with generous margins, 8pp; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80320
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- prisons, criminal law, Religion
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