A discourse of the judicial authority belonging to the office of Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery. The second edition. With large additions on that subject, and the antiquity of proceedings in equity: together with a preface, occasioned by a book entitled The legal judicature in Chancery stated.
Sir Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690 - 1764)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3147380
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],cxxvii,[1],200,[2]p. . 8vo.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: R[?].4.14 [brown ink]; H/6 [pencil]; I.2.40 [dark blue ink]. Extensive manuscript transcription on 2nd free endpaper commencing: "Saturday 27 Apr: 1700. The K. sent the Earl of Jersey Secretary of State to Ld Ch: Somers with a warrant to deliver up the great seal; ..."; concluding "Ex M.S. Mri. Dobbins in custodia Mri. Wilbraham.". Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled, panelled calf; gilt tooled spine & board edges; spine-label missing.
Makers and roles
Sir Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690 - 1764)