J. 87
Scroggs of Courts.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 79. no. 37, as above.
SCROGGS,
Sir William.
The Practice of Courts-Leet, and Courts-Baron. With full and exact directions for making up Court-Rolls, as well of Courts-Leet
as of Courts-Baron: As also, the manner of drawing and entring all sorts of presentments and forfeitures in Courts-Leet, and
of surrenders, admissions, and recoveries in the nature of Writs of Entry sur Disseisin en le post at the Common Law. Likewise,
several curious matters and notes in law . . . Published from the manuscripts of Sir Will. Scroggs, Knt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of England. To this
third edition are added, very large additions, and the late Acts of Parliament concerning the duty on surrenders, admittances,
&c. the whole carefully corrected from the errors of the former impression.
[
London] In the Savoy: Printed by
J. Nutt, Assignee of
Edward Sayer Esq; for
J. Walthoe,
mdccxiv
. [1714]
Law 329
8vo. 258 leaves in eights; advertisement for the second edition of the
Law of Ejectments
on the recto of the last leaf,
Law-books lately printed for
J. Walthoe
on the verso.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 125, 11.
Calf, rebacked, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
Sir William Scroggs, 1623?-1683, Lord Chief Justice of England. The first edition of this work was posthumously published in 1701. Scroggs is
introduced by Scott into
Peveril of the Peak
, and by Swift into
Drapier’s Letters
. He was removed from the Bench in 1680, see under Henry Care in chapter 24, no. 2703.
[1879]
J. 88
Registrum brevium.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 78. no. 210, as above.
Registrum Brevium tam Originalium, quam Judicialium: correctum & emendatum ad vetus Exemplar Manuscriptum, cujus Beneficio,
à multis erroribus purgatum, ad usus, quibus inservit redditur accommodatius. Editio
quarta, cui Subjicitur Appendix diversa Brevia tam Vetera tam Recentiora in Officijs Clerici Coronæ in Cancellaria, Clericorum de
cursu, & aliorum Clericorum Cancellariæ usitata, (quæ in Registro Brevium non extant,) continens. Unà cum Libro consultissimi
viri Simonis Theloall, cui Titulus, Le Digest des Briefs originals et des Choses concernants eux . . .
London: Printed by the Assigns of
Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For
Thomas Basset,
Samuel Heyrick,
John Place [and others],
mdclxxxvii
. [1687]
Law 321
Folio. 574 leaves; separate title-pages for the Appendix and
Le Digest, separate pagination for each part.
Marvin, page 604.
Sweet & Maxwell, I, 185, 51.
STC R757.
Rebound in calf, rebacked and repaired with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers;
the title written on the fore edge. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
The first edition was printed by William Rastell in 1531. The reputed author is Ralph de Hengham, d. 1311, author of
Hengham Magna
and
Hengham Parva
, see no. 1775.
[1880]
