A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts
By: Written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale, kt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench. To which is added, A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the county of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir Matthew Hale, kt
Publisher: Printed, and are to be sold by Will. Shrowsbery, at the Bible in Duke-Lane.
Published: 1683
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Sheriffs; Early works to 1800; Public Finance; Accounting; History; Coinage; Trials (Witchcraft); Witchcraft
Other titles: Tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds.; Tryal of witches, at the Assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds for the county of Suffolk, on the tenth day of March, 1664, before Sir Matthew Hale Kt., then Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer
Notes: Title within a ruled border.

Running title: A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts.

Collation: A⁴ B-H⁸ [$4 signed; H8 blank]

" ... a large historical narrative of the sheriffs accompts for the annual revenue of their counties" --from Hale's dedication to the Lord High Treasurer of England and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Issued with (at end) Wing T2240: A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds ... 1664. (1682)

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), H260

English Short Title Catalog, R233981

Wing, H-260

Ex libris Danbey Hodge -- Merrial Osborne -- Mary Hodges.

At head of title, in a contemporary hand: "Danbey Hodge [Hodges?]". On verso of final (blank) leaf: "Merrial Osborne/ Mary Hodges/their booke 1710".

With this is bound, as issued, Wing T2240.