English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance
Subtitle: containing, I. Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act; and divers other most useful statutes: with large comments upon each of them. II. The proceedings in appeals of murther; the work and power of parliaments; the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. Plain directions for all persons concerned in ecclesiastical courts; and how to prevent or take off the writ De Excommunicato Capiendo. As also the oath and duty of grand and petty juries. III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others concern'd, thereupon; and an abstract of all the laws against papists.
Contributors: Harris, Benjamin, d. 1716?, printer.; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by G. Larkin, for Benjamin Harris, at the Stationers Arms and Anchor in the Piazza under the Royal-Exchange
Published: 1682
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Magna Carta -- Early works to 1800; Constitutional history -- Great Britain -- Sources; Liberty -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Constitutional law -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Sources.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: English liberties; Free-born subject's inheritance; Books lately printed and sold by Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms and and Anchor in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange.
Notes: Signatures: A⁶ B-K¹² L¹⁰.
Anonymous. By Henry Care.
Publication date from ESTC.
Partly in the same setting as Wing C516.
Includes advertising matter: "Books lately printed and sold by Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms and and Anchor in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange"--[8] p. at end.
Initial leaf (A1) blank.
LC copy lacks bookseller's advertisements ([8] p.) at end.
LC copy has Thomas Jefferson's initials on p. 169.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C515
ESTC (RLIN) R31286
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 2703