The boke of iustices of peas, the charge with all the proces of the cessions warrantes sup[er]sedias and all that longeth to any iustice to make enditementes of haute treason petit treason felonyes appelles trespas vpon statutes, trespas contra regis pacem nocumentis with dyuers thyngis more as it appereth in the kale[n]der of the same boke
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Emprynted without Tempull Barre be [sic] me Robert Redma[n]. At the syne of the George.
Published: 1527
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat; roa
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Criminal law
Other titles: Boke of justices of peas
Work titles: Book for a justice of peace
Notes: Title within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 15a; Devices no. 81), with the initials I M and I N at the base.

Imprint from colophon.

"Cum priuilegio a Rege indulto." --head of colophon.

Collation: a-i⁸ k⁴ [$4 signed in all gatherings]

Error in foliation: leaf xi numbered xii.

In black letter type.

Historiated initial, A2 recto.

First printed in [1505?] by Richard Pynson. This work is sometimes attributed erroneously to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, whose Loffice et auctoryte des iustices de peas (STC 10968) and The newe boke of iustices of peas (STC 10969) were first printed in 1538. --Cf. Bertha H. Putnam, Early treatises on the practice of the justices of the peace.

Description in STC (2nd ed.) based on an incomplete copy Bodleian Library, consisting of title page only. Possibly the same edition as STC 14868, based on another incomplete Bodleian copy, colophon only.

STC (2nd ed.) 14869

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T138

Text in English and Latin.

Ex libris John William Pease -- Howard Pease -- Helen Elizabeth Pease -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Contemporary owner's signature at head of title of this and the work bound following it. With armorial bookplates of John William Pease and Howard Pease. Pictorial bookplate of Helen Elizabeth Pease.

With this is bound STC 15581.5.

Bound in 16th century calf decorated in blind with heraldic panel stamp, royal arms with Tudor badges (Oldham, Blind panels, no. HE 16) on both covers; rebacked.