Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the iustices of peace in foure bookes
Subtitle: Gathered 1579: first published 1581: and now secondly reuised, corrected, and enlarged agreeably to the reformed Commission of the Peace, in this 34. yeare of the peaceable raigne of our most gratious Queene Elizabeth
By: By William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne, gent
Publisher: Printed by Ralph Newbery.
Published: 1592
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng; lat; ang
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Of the office of the iustices of peace; Of the office of the justices of peace; Office of the iustices of peace; Office of the justices of peace
Notes: Title within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 146β; Devices, no. 185β), the shields in the lower corners blank.

"Cum priuilegio." --title page.

Collation: A-2V⁸ [$4 (-O4, -2I4, -2Q3) signed]

Errors in pagination: pages 118, 239, 362-363, 366, 382, 515, 518, and 575 printed 188, 293, 342-343, 346, 380, 513, 534, and 576.

Initials, some historiated; head and tail pieces.

Side notes.

Includes indexes.

First printed in 1581.

STC (2nd ed.) 15167

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T393

No received date, note on t.p. 'Presented by Middlecott Cooke'; 19th c. HLSL ink stamp. Annotated 1826 HLSL catalog note: 'removed from College Library'. Bound mid-20th c.

Most of text in English; some Latin. A few words in Old English.

Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Ex libris J. Gardiner -- Middlecott Cooke.

Bound in contemporary calf, covers decorated in blind with fillets and center medallion stamp; recbacked.

On title page, 'J. Gardiner 1761'; signature repeated on following leaf; possibly the medical and legal writer John Gardiner, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. With some marginal annotations in a 17th century hand; some edges lost due to close cropping. Copy imperfect; title border has been pasted on a separate sheet and tipped in. Gift of Middlecott Cooke to Harvard College; by 1826 transferred to Harvard Law School Library.