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Great Britain
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Reference IDs
ESTC number: R29173
Wing number: C518A
Folger call number: 189- 201q
Folger holdings ID: 498990
Accession Number: 189201
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Bibliographic format
twelvemo
General notes
Originally published in 1680? Epistle dedicatory signed B. Harris "Books printed and sold by B. Harris, at the Golden Boars Head in Grace Church-Street"--Pages 257-[264] Signatures: A⁶ B-M¹² (M12 verso blank)
Contents
(from title page) Containing, I. Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act, &c. With comments upon each of them. The proceedings in appeals of murder; the work and power of parliaments, the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. The advantage Englishmen enjoy by trials by juries. That they are judges of law as well as fact; and are not fineable, nor to be punish'd, for going contrary to the judges directions -- II. Of Justices of the Peace; their oath, office, and power, in many respects; with several law cases alphabetically digested for ease and brevity, and warrants proper thereto, placed exact after each particular case, concluding with a short discourse of the succession of the crown, sitting of parliaments, and trails of treason, as also directions for drovers, badgers, butchers, toll-keepers, and clerks of the market, &c. -- III. The coroner and constable's duty, relating to dead bodies, murder, man-slaughter, and felo-de-se; arrests, escapes, and conservation of the peace. And lastly, the church-warden, overseer, and scavenger's duty at large, in the most necessary particulars
Item information about Folger 189- 201q
Bound in leather (sheep?); spine title. Bookseller's description of this copy laid in. Acquired from P.M. Hill, 1963-09-17
Also known as
Alternate titles: Free-born subject's inheritance
Related names
editor: Harris, Benjamin, -1716?