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tini Doroborniensis . . . Cantabrigiæ: ex Officina Rogeri Daniel, prostant Londini apud Cornelium Bee, mdcxliiii . [1644]
Law 276
Folio. 128 leaves in fours; title-page in red and black; Anglo-Saxon and Latin in parallel columns, double page engraved map of the Heptarchy by W. Hole (included in the signatures); half-title for Leges Willielmi Conqvestoris, et Henrici filii ejus on [Vi].
STC A3605.
Lowndes II, 1301.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 34, 21.
Jefferson referred to this author more than once in his long legal correspondence with Thomas Cooper during the early months of 1814.
William Lambarde, 1536-1601, English barrister and historian of Kent. Αρχαιονομια, his first work, was originally published in 1568, and is a collection and translation or paraphrase of the Anglo-Saxon laws.
Abraham Whelock, 1593-1653, linguist, public librarian and amanuensis at Cambridge University Library, was the translator of the Chronologia Saxonica reprinted in this volume, with an address ad lectorum signed by him.
Sir Roger Twysden, 1597-1672, English historical antiquary, aided in the production of this edition and prefixed to the supplementary Leges Willielmi Conqvestoris a Latin preface dated X. Kal. Septembris M. DC. XLIV.
[1767]
J. 3
Wilkin’s leges Anglo-Saxoniae. Sax. Lat. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 80. no. 170, as above.
WILKINS, David.
Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ ecclesiasticæ & civilies. Accedunt Leges Edvardi Latinæ, Guilielmi Conquestoris Gallo-Normannicæ, et Henrici I. Latinæ. Subjungitur Domini Henr. Spelmanni Codex Legum Veterum Statutorum Regni Angliæ, quæ ab ingressu Guilielmi I. usque ad annum nonum Henr. III. edita sunt. Toti Operi præmittitur Dissertatio Epistolaris admodum Reverendi Domini Guilielmi Nicolsoni Episcopi Derrensis De Jure Feudali Veterum Saxonum. Cum Codd. MSS. contulit, Notas, Versionem & Glossarium adjecit David Wilkins, S. T. P. . . . Londini: Typis Guil. Bowyer, impensis Rob. Gosling, mdccxxi . [1721]
Law 26
First Edition. Folio. 246 leaves, list of subscribers at the beginning, publisher’s advertisement at the foot of the last page; Anglo-Saxon and Latin text in parallel columns.
Marvin, page 734.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 30, 27.
Old panelled calf repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved; some leaves discolored. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. Manuscript notes not by him.
The glossaries of Wilkins” were referred to by Jefferson in his correspondence with Thomas Cooper mentioned above.
David Wilkins, 1685-1745, scholar, was born of Prussian parents named Wilke, but anglicised his name on settling in England, where he was ordained. At one time he held the position of librarian at Lambeth Palace.
[1768]
J. 4
Glanvil. 12 mo. 2. cop.
1815 Catalogue, page 76, no. 2. Glanvil, editio, Totteli}

Topics in the Laws of England, by J. C.} 1 vol. 12mo.

Noy’s Compleat Lawyer}
GLANVILLE, Ranulf de.
Tractatvs de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie, tempore Regis Henrici secundi compositus, Iusticie gubernacula tenente illustri viro Ranulpho de Glanu-
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