Instructor clericalis, compleat in five parts
Subtitle: Directing clerks both in the Court of Queen's-Bench and Common-Pleas, in the abbreviation and contraction of words (and thereby the speedy reading of precedents), in the filling up and suing out writs of first process, in drawing declarations, making up issues, ingrossing records, entring judgments, and suing out executions : also pleas and demurrers, [et]c. : with an addition of special notes and observations in the Court of Common-Pleas, alphabetically digested
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Randolph, John, 1727 or 1728-1784, former owner; Randolph, Peyton, 1721-1775, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth edition, with large additions throughout the whole book.
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Walthoe ... and at his shop in Stafford
Published: 1715
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Pleading; Early works to 1800; Forms (Law); Procedure (Law)
Work titles: Instructor clericalis. Part 1
Notes: Advertisement to the reader signed: R.G. (Robert Gardiner).

Signatures: [A]² B-2I⁸.

Bookseller's advertisement: p. [2] in front.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1901

ESTC T208111

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's; from the library of John and Peyton Randolph, with their autographs.  Also inscribed: Mary Burwell, 1719, and James Burwell.  With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.