1792 — Fuller Title: THE CLERK'S ASSISTANT IN THE PRACTICE OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS Containing the Method of Proceeding Therein. Extracted from the Best Books of Practice. Interspersed with some Observations in Matters of Law. by the Rev. William Cockburn. To which are added three appendixes, the first containing a short summary of the method of proceeding in causes in the Ecclesiastical Courts by a late most reverend and learned prelate. A collection of modern rules of practice and cases adjudged in the courts of doctors commons, digested under their proper heads in alphabetical order, extracted from The proctor's practice by Philip Floyer. A list of the fees in the Consistory court, carefully revised and corrected from the errors of the former table, published in Robbins's Abridgment of the Ecclesiastical Statutes. The Fourth Edition. pp. [2], xxxviii, 219, [1] [2], 14; 92. The appendices have separate pagination and Register. Age stained. 8vo. 210 mm. Original full leather binding, worn; boards detached. ** Early manuscript ownerships (2) of John Read, Jr., son of George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. John Read (1769-1854) was a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist in 1787 he graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and then studied law in his father's office in New Castle, Delaware. In 1789, he moved to Philadelphia and married Martha Meredith. Read was appointed Agent General of the United States under the Jay Treaty in 1794 and served in that capacity until 1809. Read was active in Pennsylvania politics, and a leader of the Federalist Party. He held several elected offices, and was a member of Pennsylvania State Senate. From 1819 to 1841, he was president of the Philadelphia Bank, as well as head of other powerful corporations. Significant American ownership. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
