Englands compleat law-judge, and lawyer. Declared in these ensuing heads; 1. Whether that law and those judges and practizers owned time out of minde by the supreme authority of the nation, be not the laws, judges, and lawyers of this Common-wealth, &c. 2. Whether courts s constituted are not records of the nation? 3. Whether each court hath not power, as such, to enforce its owne decrees. 4. That the decrees and usages of such a court are as valid as of any court. 5. Whether it be not against reason, that when divers courts in the same nation act by divers lawes, one of the courts should have power to prohibit the other to proceed to bring the matters in difference before it self. 6. Concerning judges of appeale.
Cock, Charles George.
Paget, Thomas,-1660,attributed name.
Hailstone, Edward,1818-1890,former owner.StEdNL
London : printed for Edmund Paxton at Pauls-chaine over against the Castle-Taverne,
1656 [i.e. 1655]
Anonymous. By Charles George Cock. Sometimes also attributed to Theophilus Philopatros, i.e. Thomas Paget, who signs the dedication.
The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.
In this edition there is no authorship statement on title page.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb: 19"; the 6 in the imprint date has been crossed out and replaced with a "5".
Wing (2nd ed., 1994),
ESTC
Thomason,
Purple morocco gilt armorial bookplate of Edward Hailctone on front pastedown.
Law
Courts
England London.