WILLIAM G. MUNFORD LIST, 1798
Course of Reading for William G. Munford dated December 5, 1798. PTJ 30:594-597

Mathematics, Natl Philosophy Natural history till VIII.     aclock in the morning Law from VIII. to XII. the first [2 hours] or 3 1/2 [...] the [longer works] in the 1st. column and the     [residue] reading [...] in the 2d column.
 
large works
tracts.
Pike's arithmetic
Coke's four institutes
Perkins
Mussenbroeck, or Martin's Phil. Brit. or Nicholson.
Coke's repr
Doctor & Student
Astronomy. Ferguson.
Vaughan
Lambard's L'eirenarchia
Anatomy. Cheselden.
Salkfeld
Dalrymple's feudal tenures
Nat. history. Buffon.
Ld. Raymond
Hale's history of the common law
Chemistry. Lavoisier or Fourcroy
Strange
Gilbert's Law of Devises
Geograph. Guthrie
Burrow.
                                 Uses.
                       Morse.
    such other later reporters as may be pointed out by     gentleman better acquainted with them.
                                 tenures
Agriculture
Kaim's Principles of Equity
                                 Rents
Kirwan on soils & Manures.
Vernon's reports
                                 Distresses
Hale's vegetable statics.
Peere Williams
                                 Ejectments
Home's Gentleman farmer.
Tracey Atkyns.
                                 Executions
 
Vezey.
                                 Evidence
 
Abridgment of cases in equity
Buller's Nisi prius.
 
Wythe's reports.
Sayer's Law of costs.
 
Washington's reports.
Cuningham's Law of bills.
 
 
Hinde's Practice in Chancery
 
 
Schomberg's hist. of [Civ.l.]
 
 
Molloy de Jure [Mar.]
 
 
Vattel.

[Fine Arts] from [XII.] to II. Moral Philosophy [from?] [...] & [night?]
Lowthe's grammar
Condorcet's Progress of the humn. mind
Blair's lectures
Locke's essays.
Mason on Poetic [& prosaic] [num]bers
Ld Kaim's natural religion
Sheridan on elocution
Hume's essays.
Kaim's element's of [crit]icism
[Helveti]us's works
Cicero's orations.
Middleton's works.
Bollingbroke all his works as the [...]
Epictetus
Poe[try ad] libi[tum]
Cicero's Philosophics.
 
Seneca.
 
    &c. ad libitum

  History
Politicks
Millot's antient history
Lockes [government]
[Anach]arsis
Sydney.
Li[vy]
Montesquieu
Pol[ybius]
Beccaria
[Sallust]
The Federalist
[Caesar]
Chipman
[Tacitus]
Burgh's disquisitions
Suetonius. here fill up the chasm to Gibbons, from Eu[...] [to] [...]
Callender's P[olitical Prog.]
Gibbons.
Turgot's distribn [of riches].
 
Sm[ith's wealth nat.]
[Ma]llet's Northern antiquities
Ha[tsel's Prec. in H. Comm.]
Millot's [Modern] history
 
[Voltaire]
 
[Robertson] [...] V
 
[Watson on? Ph]ilips.
 
[Millot's hist of] France
 
[Vertot's hist of] [Spain]
 
[Hist]ory of England [...]
 
Tacitus Germania [Agricola]
 
Hume [to the] end of H[enry VI]
 
[E.] IV by Habington.
 
[E. V.]
 
[R. III.]
 
[H. VII. Ld Bacon]
 
[H. VIII. Ld. Herbert Cherbury]
 
[...]
 
[the 1st. column?]
 
 
 
[...]
 
5th column continued.
 
E. VI.
 
Mary
 
Eliz. by Cambden
 
the Stuarts [by] Mc.Caulay & Ludlow
 
Wm.
 
Anne
 
G. I. II. & III. by Belsham
 
Baxter's general hist. of [Engld]
 
 
 
Buchanan's hist. of Scotld
 
Robertson's [Mary]
 
Wynne's hist. of Ireland
 
Robertson's America.
 
Douglass['s] America.
 
Stith's history of Virginia
 
Keith's history of Virginia

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