Quinta pars relationum Edwardi Coke equitis aurati, Regii attornati generalis
Subtitle: de variis resolutionibus & iudiciis, magnâ & maturâ deliberatione in rebus permagni momenti & ponderis, à reuerendis iudicibus & iuris-consultissimis latis; vnâ cum resolutionum & indiciorum rationibus & causis. In lucem aedita anno foelicissimi & florentissimi regni Regis Iacobi, Angliae Franciae & Hiberniae, 3. Scotiae verò 39. augustissimaeq[ue]; Maiestatis eius iusticiae fonti & legumanimae, subiectissimae obseruantiae ergô, meritô dedicata & consecrata. = The fift part of the reports of Sr. Edward Coke knight, the Kings attorney generall: of diuers resolutions and iudgements giuen vpon great deliberation, in matters of great importance & consequence by the reuerend iudges and sages of the law; together with the reasons and causes of their resolutions and iudgements. Published in the yeare of the most happie and prosperous raigne of Kings Iames, of England France and Ireland the 3. and of Scotland the 39. and in all humbleness, of right, dedicated to his most excellent Maiestie, being the fountaine of iustice, and the life of the law. [1 Latin quotation]
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Printed [by Adam Islip] for the Companie of Stationers.
Published: 1606
Place of publication: London
Language: roa; lat; eng
Translated from: lat; roa
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Law reports, digests; Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law
Other titles: Fift part of the reports of Sr. Edward Coke; Fifth part of the reports of Sr. Edward Coke; De iure regis ecclesiastico.; De jure regis ecclesiastico.; Of the kings ecclesiastical law.
Work titles: Reports. Part 5
Notes: In two parts, each with title pages in the same setting, parts 1 and 2 dated 1606 and 1607, respectively.

Titles within ruled borders.

"Cum priuilegio." --foot of title pages.

Pt. 1: 'De iure regis ecclesiastico', with running titles in French and English.

Pt. 2: text of the reports.

Pt. 2 title page on A2.

Identification of Adam Islip as printer from STC (2nd ed.)

Collation: pt.1: A⁶ B-K⁴ [$2 signed; misprinting A2 as A1]; pt.2: A⁸ B-X⁶ Y⁸ [$3 signed; A1 blank]

In pt.1 A2 originally misprinted 'B' then "corrected" to 'Ai'.

Error in foliation: in pt. 2, leaf 82 numbered 80.

In predominantly black letter and Roman type; some italic type.

Initials; head pieces.

Some side notes.

Reports of 120 cases from 25 Elizabeth - 3 James I, most heard in the Court of Kings Bench or the Court of Common Pleas.

Formerly also STC 5506.

"Copies of the various editions differ in the order in which pt. 1 ['De iure regis ecclesiastico'] and the 2 segments of pt. 2 [reports] are bound." --STC (2nd ed.)

Includes bibliographical references.

STC (2nd ed.) 5505

Received June 20, 1904; gift of Mrs. Horace Gray. Bound Sept. 1907.

Received Jan. 30, 1913.

Preface to reader in Latin followed by English translation; 'De iure regis ecclesiastico' in Latin and English in parallel columns; text of the reports mostly in Law French, with some Latin and English.

Ex libris Horace Gray.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2001.

Ex libris John Chambers -- Abraham Lodge -- John Anthon.

In this copy, pt. 2 title page, preface to reader, and table of cases are bound preceeding pt.1 title page, De iure regis ecclesiastico, and Reports.

Bound in contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets; vellum guards of manuscript waste. Later red paper spine label with title in manuscript: Coke's 5th pt Reports. On inside front board, 17th century notations and shelf mark in an 18th century hand.

With this are bound the 1607, 1608 & 1611 editions of pts. 6,7, & 8 of Coke's Reports: STC 5509, STC 5511.2, and STC 5513.

Bound in worn contemporary panel calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets and corner ornaments; spine lacking. A few marginal annotations.

Copy imperfect: pt.1 only. With this is bound pt. 2 of the 1612 edition: STC 5507.

In this copy, pt. 2 title page, preface to reader, and table of cases are bound preceeding pt.1 title page, De iure regis ecclesiastico, and Reports.

Part 5 of a 12 part set. At head of title: 'Jno. Anthon' written over the initials 'A L' [Abraham Lodge]. (On title page of pt. 1 of this set, Lodge notes that it was a gift to him from John Chambers.) Initials 'A L' at head of leaf 1. Copy imperfect; pt. 1 lacking leaf 37.