De pace Regis et regni, . viz. A treatise declaring vvhich be the great and generall offences of the realme, and the chiefe impediments of the peace of the King and kingdome, as treasons, homicides, and felonies, menaces, assaults, batteries, ryots, routs, vnlawfull assemblies, forcible entries, forgeries, periuries, maintenance, deceit, extortion, oppression: and how many, and what sorts of them there be, and by whom and what meanes the sayd offences, and the offendors therein are to bee restrained, repressed, or punished. Which being reformed or duly checked, florebit pax regis & regni. Collected out of the reports of the common lawes of this realme, and of the statutes in force, and out of the painfull workes of the reuerend iudges, Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and other learned writers of our lawes, by Ferdinando Pulton of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier.
Ferdinando Pulton (1536-1618)
Category
Books
Date
1610
Materials
Measurements
303 x 204 x 54 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3074403
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],243,[17] leaves . fol.. Provenance: manuscript on title page: "Ben: Browne booke" [i.e. probably Benjamin Browne, 1664-1748].. Binding: 17th century calf binding, with blind thin thick thin fillet border; board edges have single blind fillet decoration; initials "G. B." [i.e. [?] George Browne, possibly George, 1626-1703] blind-stamped on both boards; manuscript fore-edge title: "Pulton de pace".
Makers and roles
Ferdinando Pulton (1536-1618) Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470-1538) Sir William Staunford (1509-1558) Sir Robert Brooke (d.1558) Sir James Dyer (1510-1582)