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J. 117
Lilly’s rep. in cases in Assise. &c. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 77. no. 230, Lilly’s Reports, fol.
LILLY, John.
Reports and pleadings of cases in Assise, for offices, nusances, lands and tenements; shewing the manner of proceeding in assises of novel disseisin, from the original to the judgment and execution; as well where the demandant and tenant appear, as where either of them makes default: nothing of this kind being ever before published. With observations on every case . . . To which are added, Writs of Assise, &c. By John Lilly Gent. Author of the Practical Conveyancer. To which is added, A prefatory discourse, shewing the nature of this action, and reasons for putting it in practice. [By W. Nelson] [ London] In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling, Assigns of Edward Sayer Esq; for John Hook, and Tho. Woodward, mdccxix . [1719]
Law 102
First Edition. Folio. 87 leaves: [ ] 1, a-h, B-Z, As-Hh 2, [ sic -- Ed. ] Ii 1, Kk-Nn 2, Oo 1; the work ends on Gg 2 recto with the word Finis, verso blank; Hh 1 duplicates the text of Gg 2 with the same pagination numeral, 115, without the word Finis, and the text and the pagination is then continued to page 129, sig. Mm 1 followed by 4 unnumbered leaves of Table.
Marvin, page 465.
Sweet & Maxwell II, 92, 43.
Clarke, page 365, no. 141.
Calf, rebacked and repaired, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate and that of Peyton Randolph preserved and inlaid in the new endpapers. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
John Lilly, fl. 1719, of Clifford’s Inn, English legal writer. The Prefatory Discourse is by William Nelson, b. 1653.
[1909]
J. 118
Clerk of Assize. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 75, no. 47, as above.
W., T.
The Clerk of Assize, Judges-Marshall, and Cryer: being the true manner and form of the proceedings at the Assizes and generall Goale-delivery, both in the Crown Court, and Nisi Prius Court, and the right wayes of entering of all pleas, verdicts, judgments, and orders in either of the said Courts. By T. W. To which is added An ancient brief tract of the Common Lawes of England, written in Latine. London: Printed for Timothy Twyford, 1660.
Law 356
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 40 leaves including 1 blank; on D 4 the half-title for Principia sive maxima Legum Anglia a Gallico sermone collecta: the second part in black letter.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
This edition not in Sweet & Maxwell.
STC W113. The only copy cited in the STC is that in the Thomason Collection in the British Museum. The copy in the Jefferson collection has been rebound and all signs of its Jefferson provenance have disappeared (the signatures do not reach to I). The book was included in the Jefferson library owing to its William Temple provenance, several books from his library being in the Jefferson collection.
Half bound by the Library of Congress, padded with blanks. The autograph signature Will m. Temple within an oval on the fly-leaf, the initials W. T. Pret ( ~1)0 and the date ? 1714 (cut into); a correction in ink on the first page of text.
[1910]
J. 119
Officium Clerici pacis. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 78. no. 48, as above, with reading Clericii.
W., J.
Officium Clerici Pacis: A book of indictments, informations, appeals, and inquisitions: also the manner of holding the Sessions of Peace; with divers other mat-

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