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1611rif. 751911611. The Creation of Baronets Under James I James I 1566-1625 King of England and Ireland. His Majesties Commission to All the Lords And Others of the Privie Counsell Touching the Creation of Baronets Whereunto are Annexed Divers Instructions And His Majesties Letters Patents Containing the Forme of the Said Creation. Also the Forme of an Oath to be Taken by the Said Baronets. London: Imprinted by Robert Barker 1611. iv 18 p. 18 18-38 2 39-44 pp. First leaf blank signed "A". Lacking final leaf a blank. Quarto 7-1/4" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound into modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards gilt and blind fillets and gilt title and publication date to spine. Moderate toning to interior light soiling to first leaf a small repair to its verso minor smudges to title page and following leaf. A handsome copy. $850. Only editions. Enactments dealing with the creation of the baronetage by James I. The title of baronet "a new dignitie between Barons and Knights" was established by letters patent as a way for James to raise revenue quickly without Parliament. Initially prospective baronets were required to pay enough money to "maintaine the number of thirtie foote-Souldiers in Ireland" for three years at a rate of eight pence per day men badly needed to maintain English control in Ulster. The second title largely reprints the letters patent of the first title and includes some additional clarification about matters of precedence. There are 1274 baronets on the Official Roll of the Baronetage today. English Short-Title Catalogue S122652 S100729. unknown
1538rif. 752261538. Acts Passed in the Twenty-Third Year of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXIII. H. VIII. The Kynge Our Soveraygne Lorde Henry the Eight by the Grace of God Kynge of Englande and of Fraunce Defender of the Faythe and Lorde of Irelande at the Sessions of His Highe Courte of Parlyament after Diverse Prorogations Holden at Westminster the .XV. Day of January In the .XXIII. Yere of His Moste Noble Reigne to the Honour of Almyghtye God and Holy Churche And for the Common Weale and Profytte of This His Realme By the Assente of the Lordes Spiritualle and Temporall And the Commons in This Presente Parliament Assembled And by Auctoritie of the Same Hath Ordeyned Establysshed and Enacted Certayne Good Statutes Lawes and Ordinances in Maner and Fourme Folowing. London: Imprynted.in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelet prynter to the kynges moste noble grace 1538. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". XXVIII ff. Modern three-quarter tan mottled calf over marbled boards blind fillets to calf edges gilt fillets and title to spine endpapers renewed. Boards slightly bowed negligible light rubbing to extremities. Light toning to interior two small wormholes to upper gutter not affecting text faint dampstaining to margins of ff. V-XXIII light foxing and soiling to a few leaves. $2000. Nineteen acts passed by the Reformation Parliament during the 23rd year of the reign of Henry VIII. The collection includes several acts dealing with trade acts reforming courts and prisons and "An acte that no person commyttynge pety treason murder or felony shall be admytted to his clergie." As called for by the ESTC it does not include the text of the Act of Annates. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S92172. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S143. unknown
1575rif. 753941575. Rare Elizabethan Printing of the Acts of Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno XXXVII. Henrici Octavi. Statutes Made in the Parliament Holden at Westminster in the XXXVII. Yere of the Most Renoumed Henry the Eyght By the Grace of God Kinge of England Fraunce And Irelande Defender of the Faithe And of the Churche of England and Also of Ireland In Earth Supreme Head. London: Printed by Thomas Marsh 1575. Folio 11-1/4" x 7-1/2". 72 pp. Twentieth-century quarter cloth over marbled boards blind fillets to spine endleaves renewed. Light rubbing to spine ends and board edges corners negligibly worn later pencil notations to front pastedown and free endpaper. Light toning slight horizontal creases and faint dampstaining to interior light soiling in a few places. $1750. Later Elizabethan edition of the statutes passed during the final tumultuous parliament of Henry VIII's reign which sat from November 1545 to January 1546. This post-incunabula compilation contains twenty-four individual acts that fundamentally reshaped the legal economic and religious landscape of early modern England. Chief among these is the landmark Act Against Usury 37 Hen. VIII c. 9 a pivotal moment in Western financial history. By repealing the medieval Catholic Church's absolute canonical ban on lending money for profit this statute legalized commercial credit and established England's first maximum legal interest rate capped at 10 percent. This pragmatic shift recognized the realities of a burgeoning mercantile economy and laid the regulatory groundwork for modern capitalist banking. The volume also captures the final aggressive phase of the English Reformation through the First Chantries Act 37 Hen. VIII c. 4. This statute granted the Crown the authority to dissolve and seize the remaining wealth lands and mismanaged assets of chantries-chapels heavily endowed to pray for souls in purgatory. Coming on the heels of the Dissolution of the Monasteries this act funneled critical wealth into Henry's depleted treasury to fund his costly continental wars. Additionally reflecting the highly volatile and paranoid political climate of the ailing King's final years the inclusion of an act penalizing the false accusation of treason highlights the Crown. unknown
2017rif. 1-0062698389William Morrow & Co 2017. Hardcover. New. 364 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.50 inches. William Morrow & Co hardcover
rif. 1-1554780349BookSurge. Paperback. New. 80 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.19 inches. BookSurge paperback
2006rif. 1-0978964306Knowledge Capital Group 2006. Paperback. New. 250 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.70 inches. Knowledge Capital Group paperback
2011rif. 1-0300171544Yale Univ Pr 2011. Hardcover. New. 1008 pages. 9.84x5.91x0.59 inches. Yale Univ Pr hardcover
rif. 1-1554780276BookSurge. Paperback. New. 92 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.22 inches. BookSurge paperback
2003rif. 1-1893062422Quail Ridge Pr 2003. Plastic Comb. New. spiral-bound edition. 288 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.00 inches. Quail Ridge Pr unknown
rif. 1-0788413880Heritage Books Inc. 1911. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 383 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.22 inches. Heritage Books, Inc. paperback
1975rif. 755701975. UK/Commonwealth. The Weekly Law Reports. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. 11 volumes: 1971 vol. 3 1972 vol. 1-3 1973 vol. 1-3 1974 vol. 1-3 1975 vol. 1. Tan buckram with black spine lettering. Ex-library with stamps else very good. Together 11 books. $100. This series offers comprehensive coverage with headnotes and full text reports of the judgments. They are printed weekly in 44 parts and then bound in three volumes per year. The first volume of each year reports on cases not thought of sufficient importance to warrant inclusion in the Law Reports. Those which will be included are found in volumes two and three. unknown
1558rif. 756881558. Rare 1573 Printing of Mary I and Philip II's 1558 Parliamentary Acts Featuring Early Legislation on the Abduction of Heiresses Mary I and Philip II Queen and King of England. Anno Quarto & Quinto Philippi & Mariae. Actes Made at a Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster The .xx. Daye of January in the iiii. and v. Yere of the Raigne of Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady Philip and Marie By the Grace of God King and Queene of Englande Spaine Fraunce Both the Sicillies Hierusalem & Irelande Defendours of the Fayth Archdukes of Austria Dukes of Burgundie Millaine And Brabant Counties of Haspurge Flaunders And Tyrol. And There Continued and Kept Untyll the Seventh Day of Marche Then Next Folowing And Enacted as Foloweth. London: Excusum.in Aedibus Iohannis Cawodi i.e. for R. Jugge Tipographi Regiae Maiestatis 1558 i.e. 1573. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". 80 pp. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets and gilt title to spine endleaves added. Light toning to interior faint marginal dampstaining affecting headline but not main text two small wormholes to text block not affecting legibility crack in text block before final leaf all leaves secure. A crisp wide-margined copy. $1500. Eleven acts passed by the last parliament of Mary I and Philip II during the fourth and fifth years of their joint reign. Among the more interesting acts are an act extending the right to trial by jury to the royal family and "An Acte for the punishment of such as shal take away maidens that be inheritours" specifying punishment for the abduction of heiresses under 16 or marriage to them without the consent of their parents. This session represents the fifth and final Parliament of Mary I's reign dissolved just eight months before her death in November 1558 marking the close of the Marian Counter-Reformation and the final statutory chapter of the joint Anglo-Spanish monarchy. Convened at Westminster on January 20 1557/8 Parliament opened in an atmosphere of acute national crisis: English forces had surrendered Calais England's final continental stronghold to the Duke of Guise just days earlier. The geopolitical strain of Philip and Mary's disastrous intervention in the Italian War alongside the Habsburgs directly shaped this sitting compelling the Crown to push through comprehe. unknown
1688rif. 758771688. A Call to Allow "Willing and Able" Protestants to Hold Public Office William III 1650-1702 King of England. His Majesties Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament On Saturday the Sixteenth of March 1688. London: Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb 1688 i.e. 1689. 4 pp. Folio 10-3/4" x 6-3/4". Disbound bifolium pamphlet. Light toning leaves nearly separated faint dampstain to bottom margin. $650. Only edition one of two issues. A request by William III that Parliament might "leave Room for the Admission of all Protestants that are willing and able to Serve" in public office while continuing to "sufficiently Provide against Papists." This ultimately resulted in the Act of Toleration which allowed certain groups of nonconformist Protestants freedom of worship but continued to exclude dissenters and Roman Catholics from public office. English Short-Title Catalogue R507163. unknown
1662rif. 758781662. Charles II Advocates Religious Tolerance Charles II 1630-1685 King of England. His Majesties Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament On Wednesday February the 18th. 1662. Being the First Day of their Meeting After their Prorogation. London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker 1662. 6 2 pp. Folio 10-3/4" x 7". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet spine reinforced. Light browning horizontal fold line small spots to a few pages page numbers in an early hand to rectos. $450. Only edition. A speech made by Charles II at the opening of the fourth session of the Cavalier Parliament advocating greater tolerance of dissenters who "demean themselves peaceably and modestly." Charles's many controversial attempts to increase religious tolerance would culminate in the unsuccessful Declaration of Indulgence in 1672. OCLC and the ESTC locate 7 copies of this title in North America none in law libraries. English Short-Title Catalogue R5549. unknown
1842rif. 758701842. A Satirical "Trial" of The Oxford Movement Church of England. In Re Williams Versus Garbett: The Judgment of an Ecclesiastical Court. Oxford: Printed and Published by J. Vincent 1842. 15 1 pp. Octavo 7" x 4-1/2". Disbound sewn pamphlet. Moderate toning light soiling to exterior browning and light wear to fore-edges. $350. Only edition. A sharp verse satire of the contested 1842 election of the professor of poetry at Oxford which devolved into an ecclesiastical dispute between High Church Anglicans and their opponents. OCLC locates 8 copies none in law libraries. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown
1661rif. 758801661. A Prospective Marriage for Charles II Charles II 1630-1685 King of England. Hyde Edward 1609-1674 1st Earl of Clarendon. His Majesties Gracious Speech to the Lords & Commons Together with the Lord Chancellor's At the Opening of the Parliament On the 8th Day of May 1661. London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker 1661. 26 2 pp. Final leaf blank. Folio 10-3/4" x 7". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet spine reinforced. Moderate toning occasional light foxing light soiling in a few places lower corner of first leaf lacking without loss to text small "2" to title page early handwritten page numbers to rectos. $350. Only edition. Speeches by Charles II and Edward Hyde his Lord Chancellor given at the opening of the first session of the Cavalier Parliament. Both speeches address Charles's prospective marriage to Catherine of Braganza the daughter of the king of Portugal in order to cement an alliance with Portugal. Since Catherine was a Roman Catholic the marriage was controversial but the two wed in May of 1662. English Short-Title Catalogue R35487. unknown
1552rif. 759361552. Edward VI's Protestant Reforms Great Britain. Statutes. Edward VI 1537-1553 King of England. Anno Secundo & Tertio Edouardi Sexti. Actes Made in the Session of this Present Parliament Holden Upon Prorogation at Westminster The Fourth Day of November In the Second Yeare of Our Most Dread Soveraign Lord Edward the VI. By the Grace of God King of England Fraunce and Ireland Defendor of the Fayth And of the Church of England And Also of Irelande In Earth the Supreme Heade: And There Continued and Kept to the XIIIJ Day of Marche in the III. Yeare of Our Sayde SoVeraygne Lorde As Foloweth. London: Richardus Graftonus i.e. Richard Tottell Typographus Regius Excudebat 1552 i.e. 1557. lxviij ff. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/4". Modern quarter calf over marbled boards blind fillets and gilt title to spine endpapers renewed. Light toning to interior minor worming to text block and lower gutter no loss to legibility occasional faint dampstaining light soiling in a few places a few folded corners cracks in text block after first and before final leaves clean tear to fore-edge of leaf B1 fol. vij not affecting text early annotations to a few pages. $1500. Later edition. 39 public acts passed under Edward VI in 1548-1549. Some of the more interesting acts involve significant Protestant reforms to the English Church including the Act of Uniformity which established the Book of Common Prayer as the sole form of legal worship in England. Also included is the Clergy Marriage Act which abolished the prohibition on marriage for priests in the Church of England. Beale A Bibliography of Early English Law Books S224a. English Short-Title Catalogue S121643. unknown
rif. 60798Melfi: Edizioni Libria 1997. Maltese Sketches and Poetry FIRST EDITION. Quarto 30 x 28cm pp.133 7. A collection of sketches of buildings on Gozo accompanied by various appropriate quotations and by eclogues by John Cremona. Publisher's cream soft covers with flaps priced at 50000 lire. Spine and part of rear cover sunned with some light handling and bumping to edges. Very good. Melfi: Edizioni Libria, 1997 unknown
1587rif. 741441587. A Scarce Set of Orders Regulating Grain Allotment by Justices of the Peace Elizabeth I 1533-1603 Queen of England and Ireland. Orders Devised by the Especiall Commandement of the Queenes Maiestie For the Reliefe and Stay of the Present Dearth of Graine Within the Realme: Sent from the Court at Greenewich Abroad into the Realme The Second Day of Ianuarie 1586. In the 29. Yeere of Her Maiesties Reigue By Her Maiesties Priuie Counsell. ii 20 2 pp. London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker 1586 i.e. 1587. Quarto 6-3/4" x 4-3/4". Modern polished tan calf signed binding by Riviere & Son gilt frames and small corner decorations to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering pieces gilt tooling to board edges edges of text block gilt gilt inside dentelles. Light bowing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities chip to head of spine front board and rear joint just starting faint offsetting and recent pencil notations to endpapers. Moderate toning to interior trimming to leaf B1 pp. 7-8 just touching side notes without loss to legibility. A handsome copy. $2000. Only edition. Following a 1586 famine Elizabeth's Privy Council issued orders to justices of the peace dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. The sweeping highly detailed orders listed the quantities of grain permitted each family and controlled prices for any excess put on the market. Though many other monarchs had regulated grain markets after crop failures the practice expanded significantly under Elizabeth. Along with other social reforms this provided the foundation for her overhaul of the poor laws in 1601. OCLC locates 6 copies of this scarce title 5 in North America Yale Williams College University of Minnesota Law School Harvard Law School Huntington Library; the ESTC adds 1 North American copy Folger Shakespeare. Beale Bibliography of Early English Law Books T304a. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S100696. unknown
1688rif. 743511688. William of Orange Decides to Summon the Convention Parliament Parliament. William III King of England 1650-1702. Divers of the Members of the Parliaments in the Reign of King Charles the Second And the Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London Pursuant to His Highness the Prince of Orange's Desire Meeting at St. James's the 26th of December 1688 Caption Title. At head of title: Westminster 26 Dec. 1688. London: Printed by John Starkey Awnsham and William Churchill 1688. 4 pp. Folio 12-1/2" x 8". Disbound bifolium edges untrimmed. Moderate toning faint dampstaining to top half a few faint stains. $1250. Only edition. An account of one of the assemblies of peers after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By this time James II had fled to France and many were advocating for the accession of William of Orange to the throne. This document summarizes the assembly that asked William to summon a convention that would meet in January of the following year. Ultimately the convention which became known as the Convention Parliament decided that James had abandoned the throne and installed William and Mary as King and Queen. OCLC locates 1 copy of this title in a law library University of Minnesota. English Short-Title Catalogue R25000. unknown
1540rif. 743771540. 22 Henry VIII Henry VIII 1491-1547 King of England. Anno Vicesimo Secvndo Henrici Octavi. Statvta Bonvm Pvblicvm Concernentia Edita In Perliamento Tento Apud Westmn. XVI. Die Ianuarii Anno Regni Praepotentissimi et Metuendissimi Anglie et Francie Regis Fidei Defensoris Et Domini Hibernie Henrici Octaui. XXII. Post Diuersas Prorogationes Eiusdem Perliamenti Primo Inchoati Apud Londinum. III. Die Nouembris Anno. XXI. Eiusdem Regis: Et Inde Adiurnati et Prorogati Vsq; Ad Vuestmonasterium Et Ibidem Continuati per. XLIIII. Dies Videlicet Vsq; Ad. XVII. Diem Decembris: Et ab Eodem Die et Loco Vsq;. XXVI. Diem Aprilis Proxi. Sequentis: Et ab eo die Vsq; Ad. XXII. Diem Iunii Et ab Illo die ad Primum Diem Octobris Et a Primo Die Octobris Vsq; Ad XXII. Diem Eiusdem Mensis Et ab Illo die Vsq; XVI. Diem Ianuarii Secundum Leges Terre Rite Prorogati Et Ibidem Continuati per. LXXV. Dies Videlicet ad Ultimum Diem Martii Eodem Anno. XXI. Et Inde Vlterius Prorogati Vsq; Ad XIII. Diem Octobris Proxime Sequentis. London: Tho. Berthelet Regis Impressor Excudebat. Cum Privilegio 1540. XXIIII ff. Folio 10-3/4" x 7-1/2". Nineteenth-century pebbled cloth fragment of paper label to spine. Light rubbing and minor soiling to boards light fading to spine spine ends bumped and lightly worn hinges starting armorial bookplate of Edwin Freshfield to front pastedown. Attractive woodcut initials. Light toning to interior small wormhole near bottom of text block not affecting legibility negligible light foxing to margins of a few leaves later pencil annotation to title page early annotations in chancery hand to versos of f. I and f. X the latter affected by trimming. Rare. $1650. This volume records 16 acts for the 22nd regnal year of Henry VIII 1530-1531. These include "An Acte Ageynst Poysonynge" and "An Acte Concernynge Outlandishe People Callynge Them Selfes Egiptians" gypsies. Our copy was owned by Edwin Freshfield 1832-1918 a solicitor in his great family law firm. Founded in London in 1743 the firm is now the multinational Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The ESTC provisionally dates this printing to 1540. It is similar to Beale S136 but with "privilegio" instead of "priuilegio" in the colophon and additional small variations co. unknown
1635rif. 744401635. Carriages Over One Ton Banned "Upon Pain of Our Heavy Indignation" Broadside. Highways. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. By the King. A Proclamation for Restraint of Excessive Carriages To the Destruction of the High Ways. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1635. 14-1/4" x 10-1/4" 2 ff. broadside text in single column below headline and large woodcut royal arms 8-line woodcut initial. Moderate toning very light foxing and soiling slight horizontal fold lines faint dampstain to bottom and two small worm holes near top of both sheets minor loss to woodcut but no loss to text crease to left edge of first sheet which is mended at bottom edge just touching a few letters of text without loss. Housed in attractive 15" x 11" green buckram folder with red morocco lettering piece to front. $2000. Despite previous attempts to regulate excessively heavy carriages the king and his people still found "by dayly experience" that "those great abuses" were "still continued and increased." This two-page proclamation restricts carriages to "twenty hundred weight" one ton and imposed limits of either five horses five oxen or four oxen and two horses. It also encourages local officials to keep up with highway maintenance and "answere the contrary at their perils." Offenders were duly reported to the attorney general as a public nuisance where they would receive "such punishment as their contempts and offences shall deserve." OCLC and the ESTC locate 1 copy of this scarce broadside in North America Huntington Library. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S122973. unknown
rif. 70600Austin University of Texas Press 1983 Auflage: 1. Leinen gebunden; grüner Einband dunkelgrüne Rückenprägung mit illustriertem Schutzumschlag / Anz. Seiten: 353 / 16 x 23 cm / Zustand: gut geringe bis leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Schnitt gering fleckig Schutzumschlag mässig berieben = Texas Linguistics Series Austin, University of Texas Press, 1983, Auflage: 1. unknown
1630rif. 748491630. Orders Regulating Grain Allotment Among the Poor Great Britain. Charles I 1600-1649 King of England. Orders Appointed by His Maiestie to be Straitly Observed For the Preventing and Remedying of the Dearth of Graine and Victuall: With His Maiesties Proclamation Declaring His Royall Pleasure and Further Commandement Therein. London: Imprinted.by Robert Barker and by the Assignes of Iohn Bill 1630. xviii 27 1 pp. First leaf a blank signed "A." Quarto 7" x 5". Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in recent three-quarter morocco over marbled boards blind rules to morocco edges raised bands and gilt title to spine top-edge gilt. Negligible light rubbing to extremities boards very slightly bowed. Light toning to interior very light foxing and soiling to a few leaves early ownership signature of Sir Robert Gordon and brief early notation to title page. A handsome copy. $1250. Only edition. A collection of orders to justices of the peace and other overseers of the poor dictating how they were to respond to food scarcity in their communities. As the proclamation itself notes this was largely an expansion of similar orders and reforms to the poor laws made by Elizabeth I and James I. The practice of grain market regulation after crop failures had expanded significantly under Elizabeth in 1586. Among other requirements the orders mandated that corn be sold in an open market and that justices of the peace be present to ensure fair prices and prevent hoarding. Our copy was owned by Scottish politician and courtier Sir Robert Gordon 1580-1656 whose extensive private library was sold at auction in 1816. OCLC locates 5 copies of this title in North America Harvard University of Illinois University of Pennsylvania Boston Public Library Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Northwestern. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S101037. unknown
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