First Edition. 8vo. 136 leaves including one blank (I
8.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 116, 12.
STC P1945 (with an unauthorized knighthood).
Original calf, marbled endpapers; on the back a label lettered: Petyt’s / Ancient / Right / of the / Commons. / Inside the
book is inserted a slip of paper with the lettering instructions for the binder written in ink (with
Ancient Right in one line). Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Acquired by Jefferson with his purchase of the Bland Library.
William Petyt, 1641-1707, English archivist and antiquary, was for many years keeper of the records at the Tower of London. This work gave
rise to a controversy and several replies were written.
[2885]
J. 216
Hale’s jurisdiction of parliaments.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 205, as above.
HALE,
Sir Matthew.
The Original institution, power and jurisdiction of Parliaments. In two parts . . . being a manuscript of the late Judge Hales.
London: printed for
Jacob Tonson,
Benjamin Barker, and
Charles King,
1707.
JN539 1707 .H2
First Edition. 8vo. 124 leaves.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 103, 32.
Not in Arber,
Term Catalogues.
Rebound in half red morocco. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
According to Sweet & Maxwell, “This work is ascribed to Hale on the title-page but appears not to have been written by him.”
Other works by Sir Matthew Hale, q.v., appear in this catalogue.
[2886]
J. 217
Selden on the judicature of parliaments.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 104. no. 206, as above, but 8vo.
SELDEN,
John.
John Selden, of the judicature in Parliaments, a posthumous treatise: wherein, the controversies and precedents belonging to that title,
are methodically handled.
London: printed for
Joseph Lawson, and sold by the booksellers in London, n.d. [?
1689]
JN639 .S44
First Edition. 8vo. 104 leaves in eights including two blanks at the end.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 110, 86.
Arber,
Term Catalogues, II, 251.
STC 2433, with date [1681?].
Original calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and with the date 1681 written by him in the imprint. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
[J]efferson acquired this volume through his wife’s family; the autograph signature of John Wayles occurs in three places,
written respectively, John Wales, John Wayles, and John Walys. According to Arber’s
Term Catalogues this book was entered in the Easter term, 1689, and therefore could not have been printed before that date. The British Museum
catalogue suggests the date ?1690. Sweet & Maxwell give the date as 1681 for the 8vo. edition and list also a 4to. edition,
n.d.
Other works by Selden occur in this catalogue, q.v.
[2887]
J. 218
Considñs on the right of prelates to sit in capital cases.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 96. no. 56, as above.
[HOLLES,
Denzil, Baron Holles.]
Considerations touching that question, whether the prelates have right to sit among the Lords, and vote with them in Parliament
in capital cases, when the Lords sit in their judicial way of proceeding upon the tryal of any of their peers?
