The iustyces of paes
Subtitle: The boke of iustyces of peas the charge with all the processe of the cessyons, warrantes supersedias and all that longeth to ony iustyce to make endyteme[n]tes of haute treason petyt treason felonyes appeles trespas vpon statutes, trespas contra regis pacem, nocume[n]tis with dyuers thynges more as it appereth in the kalender of the same boke
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: By Wynkyn de Worde.
Published: 1510
Place of publication: Enprynted at Londo[n] in Fletestrete at the sygne of the Sonne
Language: eng; lat; roa
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Justices of the peace; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Criminal law
Other titles: Boke of iustyces of peas
Work titles: Book for a justice of peace
Notes: On title page, woodcut of an emperor with courtiers (Beale, J.H. Engl. law, Appendix 1, no. 6; Hodnett, English woodcuts, fig. 110; no. 930)

First part of title, "The iustyces of paes", printed on a woodcut scroll at head of leaf.

Imprint from colophon.

Collation: A-H⁸/⁴ I⁸ [$4,3 signed]

Wynkyn de Worde's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 20) on verso of final leaf.

In black letter type.

Historiated initial, A2 recto.

Side notes.

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.

STC (2nd ed.) 14864

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T132

Most of text in Latin; some English and Law French.

Ex libris Matthew Holbeche Bloxam -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in early limp vellum, spine title in a 17th century hand: Iustice of Peace. On a front flyleaf, signature "Matt. H. Bloxam" with a note in his hand regarding this edition and the sale price of another copy. On title page of this work and verso of the final leaf of the volume are former owners' inscriptions, with prices, in 16th century hands. With this are bound Wynkyn de Worde editions of Carta feodi [1505?], STC 15579.4, and Modus tenendi Curiam Baronis ([1508?]), STC 7706.