Origines Juridicales Or Historical Memorials Of The English Laws Courts of Justice Forms of Tryal Punishments in Cases Criminal Law-Writers Law-Books Grants and Settlements of Estates Degrees of Serjeant Innes of Court and Chancery...

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Also A Chronologie Of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers Of The Great Seal Lord Treasurers Justices Itinerant Justices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas Barons of the Exchequer Masters of the Rolls Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors and Serjeants at Law. London: F. and T. Warren for the author 1666. Folio. Modern half calf binding. (vii 332 ii 115 iiipp.). Pages include Imprimatur and Errata leaves 1 engraving and 30 pages of coats of arms. The "Chronica series" covers the period 1067-1666. Title in red and black. Fresh endpapers. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Six portraits are missing; a few closed tears; minor stains and some annotations otherwise a good copy. Scarce First edition. NOTE: According to diarist Samuel Pepys whom bought his own book most copies were destroyed in the Great Fire of London. A landmark early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession.