Thys is a True Copy of the Ordynaunce Made in the Tyme of the Reygne..
A Rare Copy of an Important Exchequer Ordinance [Great Britain]. Thys is a True Copy of the Ordynau[n]ce Made in the Tyme of the Reygne of Kynge Henry the. VI. To be Observed in the Kynges Eschequier, By the Offycers and Clerkes of the Same, For Takynge of Fees of the Kynges Accomptes in the Same Courtes. [London: Imprynted...by [N. Hill for] Henry Smythe, [1546]. [16] pp. Octavo (5-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Recent period-style speckled calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands and blind fillets to spine, endleaves renewed, several blank leaves added after text block by binder. Woodcut arms to title page, metalcut initial. Light toning to interior, faint dampstaining to fore-edge, small wormhole through center of text block affecting text without loss to legibility, light soiling in a few places, upper corners of last five leaves lacking (last four leaves mended), text affected on fourth and final leaves only with loss to legibility of first five lines of fourth leaf, early (illegible) annotations, two dated 1554, to verso of title page and recto and verso of last leaf. $2,500. * Later edition. This title, a copy of a 1447 ordinance governing the exchequer, would have been "essential" for local government officials and justices of the peace given that most "were obliged to render an account at the Exchequer of fines, fees, and amercements" (Holdsworth). Copies of the 1447 ordinance were frequently issued with or incorporated into JP manuals of the period. The ESTC notes that this title may have been issued with editions of The Boke for a Justyce of Peace (London, 1546). It is rare. OCLC, Library Hub and the ESTC locate 1 copy worldwide (British Library). Holdsworth, A History of English Law IV:114. Beale, A Bibliography of Early English Law Books T243. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) S108802.
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