The Parsons Law, Collected Out of the Whole Body of the Common Law...
First Edition of a Scarce Treatise on the Law of Advowson Hughes, W[illiam] [1587 or 1588-1663]. The Parsons Law. Collected Out of the Whole Body of the Common Law, And Some Late Reports. London: Printed for the Author, 1641. [ii], 108, 141, [3], [viii] pp. Table of contents misbound after p.[3]. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, blind fillets to spine. A few shallow scuffs and minor stains to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, spine ends worn, joints starting, corners bumped, pastedowns and front endleaves partially detached and moderately edgeworn, rear endleaves lacking, "P.B" in early hand and later bookplate, of "Keasbey," to verso of front board, two signatures near center of text block partially detached but secure. Light toning to interior, light soiling to title page. $450. * First edition. Hughes, a barrister of Gray's Inn, was the author of an important abridgment, an edition of Horne's Mirrour of Justices and the editor of an interesting collection of mooted cases. Parsons Law concerns laws governing advowson, a patron's right in English law to present a candidate to fill a vacant ecclesiastical benefice to a bishop (or other church official). According to the preface, Hughes says he wrote this book in response to "the earnest request of some eminent men of the Clergy" [iii]. This book may have belonged to Anthony Quinton Keasbey [1824-1895], the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, legal historian and poet. English Short-Title Catalogue R25549.
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