The elements of the common lawes of England
Subtitle: branched into a double tract, the one contayning a collection of some principall rules and maximes of the common law, with their latitutde and extent : explicated for the more facile introduction of such as are studiously addicted to that noble profession : the other the use of the common law for preservation of our persons, goods, and good names : according to the lawes and customs of this land
By: by the late Sir Francis Bacon knight, Lo: Verulam and Viscount S. Alban ...
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by the assignes of John Moore
Published: 1630
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Law; Early works to 1800; Legal maxims; Common Law
Other titles: Collection of some principall rules and maximes of the common lawes of England; Elements of the common lawes of England; Use of the common law
Notes: Each tract has separate t.-p. and paging.

Title page of first tract: A collection of some principall rules and maximes of the common lawes of England ... Printed by the assignes of Iohn Moore Esq.

Signatures: pi2 A-B4 *2 C-P4, A-L4 M2.

Numerous errors in pagination in second tract.

"The use of the law" is probably not in fact by Bacon; it was first published anonymously as Part 2 of "The lawyers light" by Sir John Doddridge in 1629 (STC 6983). --ESTC

ESTC S100348

STC (2nd ed.) 1134

Gibson, R.W. Bacon, 193

Lincoln's Inn. Catalogue of Pamphlets ... 1506-1700, 224

Copies 1 and 2.

With copy 1 are bound: Dodderidge's A Compleat parson (1630); The History of the ancient and moderne estate of the Principality of Wales [etc.] (1630); The English lawyer (1631); Richard Compton's Star-chamber cases (1630).