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A Collection of All the Publicke Orders, Ordiances and Declarations...
Ordinances and Orders from the First English Civil War [Great Britain]. [Parliament]. A Collection of All the Publicke Orders Ordinances and Declarations of Both Houses of Parliament, From the Ninth of March 1642. Untill December 1646. Together with Severall of his Majesties Proclamations and Other Papers Printed at Oxford. Also..... More
The Manner and Method of Proceeding Against Bishops, For High-Treason.
Published in Response to the Atterbury Plot [Great Britain]. The Manner and Method of Proceeding Against Bishops, For High-Treason, And Other Capital Offences. With An Impartial Enquiry into their Rights and Privileges, As to Peerage; And their Judicature in Parliament, In Cases of Tryals. And Also A Brief History of..... More
Rules, Recommended by the Magistrates of the Yeovil Division...
A Georgian-Era Program to Alleviate Rural Poverty [Broadside]. [Poor Laws]. [Great Britain]. Rules, Recommended by the Magistrates of the Yeovil Division, In the County of Somerset, To be Observed by the Overseers, For Making the Weekly Income of the Poor (Including Their Earnings) Proportionate to the Price of Bread, As..... More
The Whole Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer...
A Year in the Life of the Old Bailey [Trials]. [Great Britain]. Gurney, Joseph [1744-1815], Reporter. The Whole Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, Gaol Delivery for the City of London; And Also, The Gaol Delivery for the County of Middlesex; Held at Justice Hall..... More
An Authentic and Genuine Narrative of the Life and Surprizing...
The "Monarch of Highwaymen" [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. [Hawke, William (d.1774)]. An Authentic and Genuine Narrative of the Life and Surprizing Exploits, Of William Hawke, The Famous Highwayman, Who Was Executed at Tyburn, July 1, 1774, For Robbing Mr. Charles Hart, On the Highway, Of 1s. 8d. Containing I. An Account..... More
A Report from the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the State...
Report of the Landmark 1729 Investigation of Britain's Prisons by a Committee Chaired by the Founder of Georgia [Prisons]. [Great Britain]. [House of Commons]. A Report from the Committee Appointed to Enquire Into the State of the Goals of this Kingdom: Relating to the Marshalsea Prison; And Farther Relating to..... More
An Authentic and Genuine Narrative of the Life and Surprizing...
The "Monarch of Highwaymen" [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. [Hawke, William (d.1774)]. An Authentic and Genuine Narrative of the Life and Surprizing Exploits, Of William Hawke, The Famous Highwayman, Who Was Executed at Tyburn, July 1, 1774, For Robbing Mr. Charles Hart, On the Highway, Of 1s. 8d. Containing I. An Account..... More
A Select Collection of Remarkable Trials, In One Volume, London, 1744.
"Select Collection" of British Trials [Trials]. [Great Britain]. A Select Collection of Remarkable Trials: In One Volume. Viz. of The Duke of Norfolk, And the Lady Mary Mordaunt, For a Divorce. Patrick Hurley, For Perjury. Dr. Henry Sacheverell, For a Misdemeanor. James Earl of Derwentwater, William Lord Widdrington, William Earl..... More
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, Vol.33.
Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Fifth Series, Vol. 33. London: Royal Historical Society, 1983. 297 pp. Hardbound, light shelfwear with light fading to spine. $20. More
A Collection of Several Statutes and Clauses Now in Force, Relating...
Consumer Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain [Great Britain]. A Collection of Several Statutes and Clauses Now in Force, Relating to the Duties upon Spirits, Malt, Candles, Sope, Callicoes, Starch, Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, Glass, Coaches, And Tobacco. With an Abridgment of the Said Statutes and Clauses, And a Table of the..... More
A Collection of the Statutes Relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Ships...
A Fascinating 1768 Compilation of Statutes Relating to Naval and Maritime Issues [Great Britain]. A Collection of the Statutes Relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Ships of War, And Incidental Matters; To the Eighth Year of King George the Third. London: Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent..... More
An Account of the Number of Persons Committed to His Majesty's...
Imprisonment for Debt from 1798-1818 [Bankruptcy]. [Great Britain]. An Account of the Number of Persons Committed to His Majesty's Different Prisons in England and Wales, For Debt, From the 31st December 1797 to the 1st of January 1819; With the Number Discharged;-Distinguishing Each Year, And Those who have been Discharged..... More
Report from the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the State...
The State of the Fleet, Westminster and Marshalsea Prisons in 1819 [Prisons]. [Great Britain]. [House of Commons]. Report from the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the State, Conduct, And Management of the Prison and Gaol of The Fleet; And also, Of the Prison and Gaol of the Court of His..... More
Orders Issued by the Board of Customs, Treasury and Queen, 1846-1848.
A Glimpse into the Daily Operations of British Customs [Board of Customs]. [Great Britain]. [Collection of Orders Relating to Commerce and Trade Issued by the Board of Customs, Treasury, Privy Council and Queen]. [Great Britain: S.n., 1846-1848]. [357] ff. Folio (13-1/4" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary three-quarter vellum over plain paper-covered boards..... More
Whereas It Hath Pleased Almighty God to Call to His Mercy Our Late...
"God Save King James the Second" [Broadside]. [Great Britain]. Whereas It Hath Pleased Almighty God to Call to His Mercy Our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory, By Whose Decease, The Imperial Crowns of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Are Solely and Rightfully Come to the..... More
Anno Tertio Henrici VIII [Year 3 Only], London, 1575?.
Legislation from the Third Year of the Reign of Henry VIII [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. Henry VIII [1491-1547], King of England. Anno Tertio Henrici VIII. The Kynge Our Soueraygne Lorde Henrye the viij. After the Conquest, By the Grace of God King of England and of Fraunce and Lorde of Irelande..... More
Notice of Conviction for Poaching, Leek, Staffordshire, UK, 1874.
Convicted for Poaching Trout [Game Law]. [Great Britain]. [Notice of Conviction for Poaching, Leek, Staffordshire, England, June 8, 1874]. 13-1/4" x 8-3/4" single sheet, part-printed document on blue paper completed in manuscript, wax seals at foot next to signatures. Horizontal fold line to center, two minor creases to lower right..... More
Eviction Order and Notice to Quit, Cornwall, England, September, 1830.
"Deliver and Yield Up to Me" [Manuscript]. [Real Property]. [Great Britain]. [Eviction Order and Notice to Quit, Cornwall, England, September 27, 1830]. 8-3/4" x 7-1/4" sheet. Light toning, horizontal fold lines. Content in neat hand, docketed on verso. $250. * A fine example of of an early eighteenth-century eviction order..... More
List Of Subscribers To The Association Established in the Town...
Leading Citizens of a Midland Town Establish a Fund to Fight Crime [Manuscript]. [Criminals]. [Great Britain]. List Of Subscribers To The Association Established in the Town And Neighbourhood Of Stourbridge For The Prosecution Of Felons. [Stourbridge, Warwickshire, England, c.1811]. 15-3/4" x 12-1/2" sheet, written on both sides, with a watermark..... More
Abstract of the Laws Respecting Elections in England and Wales.
A Rare 1784 Digest of English Election Laws [Elections]. [Great Britain]. Abstract of the Laws Respecting Elections in England and Wales. London: S.n., 1784. iii, [1], 5-59, [1] pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling and browning to title page and verso offinal leaf, moderate toning to..... More
Elements of the Logical and Experimental Sciences Considered...
The Application of Scientific and Logical Methods to Legal Practice [Practice]. [Great Britain]. Elements of the Logical and Experimental Sciences Considered in Their Relation to the Practice of the Law. London: Henry Butterworth, Law Bookseller and Publisher, 1835. viii, [2], 500; 39, [1] pp. Main text followed by 40 pp..... More
An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries..
Prisons in England and Wales for the Year 1818 [Prisons]. [Great Britain]. [House of Commons]. An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, In the United Kingdom; Specifying, The Number of Persons Committed to Each, And the Greatest Number of Prisoners Confined in Each, At Any Period..... More
Anno Regni Gulielmi III Regis... XII & XIII, 1701.
Includes the Act of Settlement [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. William III [1650-1702], King of England. Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, XII. & XIII. At the Parliament Begun at Westminster the Sixth Day of February, Anno Dom. 1700. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our..... More
Anno Vicesimo Secundo Henrici Octavi: Statuta Bonum Publicum...
22 Henry VIII [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. Henry VIII [1491-1547], King of England. Anno Vicesimo Secundo Henrici Octavi. Statuta Bonum Publicum Concernentia Edita In. Perliamento Tento Apud Westm. XVI. Die Ianuarii, Anno Regni Praepotentissimi et Metuendissimi Anglie et Francie Regis, Fidei Defensoris, Et Domini Hiberniae, Henrici Octaui. xxii. Post Diversas Prorogationes..... More
Anno Regni Georgii Regis, Undecimo, 1724.
Public and Private Acts of Parliament, 1724-1725 [Great Britain]. [Statutes]. George I [1660-1727], King of Great Britain. Anno Regni Georgii Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Undecimo. At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, the Ninth Day of October, Anno Dom. 1722. In the Ninth Year of the Reign..... More