le temps del Regne de
tresillustres Roys Jaques et Charles le premier:
Jammais par cy devant
imprimee. Ovesq; un Table bien perfaict de matieres
notables contenues en les
dits reports et cases. Et auxsi un auter table de
nosmes del cases contenues en
yceaux. Publies en le
xiii. au
[
sic
--
Ed.
] de treshaut et renosmes Charles le Second par le grace de Deiu
[
sic
--
Ed.
] Roy d’Angleterre, Scoce, Fr. et Irel. Le Restituteur et Conservateur de
la Ley . . .
London: Printed for
Timothy Twyford,
m. dc. lxi
. [1661]
Law 59
Folio. 100 leaves, printed in black letter; publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the last leaf.
STC B1871.
Marvin, page 111.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 195, 6.
Clarke, page 349, no. 24.
Old 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. Ii and Tt. On the verso of the title-page the armorial bookplate of
Richard Butler of Lincolns Inn Esq
r 1703.
This book is “New Bendlowes” and is wrongly described by Jefferson, followed by the 1815 catalogue, as
Benloe. [
Old.]
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J. 251
Ley.................................................................6.Jac.1.--4.Car.1.
1815 Catalogue, page 81. no. 270, Ley, fol. 6, Jac. 1--3, Car. 1.
LEY,
James, earl of marlborough.
Reports of divers resolutions in Lavv, arising upon cases
in the Court of Wards, and other Courts at
Westminster, in the Reigns of the
late Kings, King James and King Charles. Collected
by the Right Honorable, Sir
James Ley, Knight and Baronet, Earl of Marlborough,
&c. whilst he was
Attorney of the Courts of Wards and Liveries and
now published for the common
good, according to his Lordships Manuscript. With
two exact tables, the one of
the cases, and the other of the principal matters
therein contained.
London:
Printed by
Tho. Roycroft for
H. Twyford,
Tho.
Dring
, and
Jo. Place,
1659.
Law 101
First Edition. Folio. 62 leaves; engraved portrait (lacking in this copy); black letter; the last alphabet for
Instructions for our Master of our Wards and Liveries, for the better authorizing and directing of him in the Execution of
his Office, and Performance of our Service
, with caption title and separate pagination.
STC L688.
Marvin, page 463.
Sweet & Maxwell I, 223, 5.
Clarke, page 364, no. 139.
Rebound in half calf; with the bookplate of Peyton Randolph preserved and pasted on the new endpaper. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T. On the verso of the title-page is written in an early hand an account of the author copied from
Woods Athenae Oxon. 526. Manuscript notes in the same hand occur (possibly that of Sir John Randolph).
James Ley, Earl of Marlborough, 1550-1629, judge and politician, was attorney of the court of wards and liveries from 1608-1610. He
was an early member of the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries before which he read several papers, and a tribute was paid
him by Milton in a sonnet to his daughter Margaret.
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J. 252
Palmer...........................................................17.Jac.1.--4.Car.1.
1815 Catalogue, page 81. no. 271, as above, fol.
PALMER,
Sir Geoffrey.
Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer, Chevalier & Baronet;
Attorney General a son Tres Excellent Majesty le
Roy Charles Le Second. Imprime
& publie per l’original.
