Chapter 16

[The following are evidently subsequent additions to the library, which seems thus far to have been cataloged before 1746. The following books listed are referred to the accounts on which they were purchased.]

1746AprilTo Majr. John Champe for sundrys viz.Viner’s Abridgment 4 vol£ 5.16.Ld. Raymond’s Reports 2 vol3.Freeman’s Reports1.15.Lilly’s Conveyancer1.15.Comyn’s Reports1.10.Dalton’s Officium Vicicomitum1.2.Swinburne [18th-century author] of Wills1.Herne’s Pleader19.Petyt’s Ius Parliamentarium18.Tremaine’s Pleas of the Crown15.Wood’s Institutes of the Civil Law13.Trott’s Plantation Laws12.Reports B R 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 Ann12.Duke’s Law of Charitable Uses10.GIAbridgtState Tryals 9 vol1.16.ARPractising Attorney 2 vol9.GINaval Trade 2 vol9.ARAttorney & Pleaders’ Treasury 2 vol10.Compleat Sheriff5.6Orders of the Court of Chancery5.6GILaw of Testaments & Last Wills5.6Exrs. & Admrs5.Trespasses5.Merchants5.GIAwards4.6Ejectments4.6GIActions upon the Cse4.6Tenures4.6Errors4.Trials in high Treason4.Mortgages4.Covenants4.GIExecutions4.Estates Tail3.6GISecurities3.6Infants3.6Last Wills3.6Obligations3.Master & Servant3.GILandlords2.8Actions2.6Inheritances2.6Pledges2.6Bastardy1.6Non compos1.6Trover & Conversion;1.6Appeals2.GI Select Trials at the Old Baily 4 vol11.New Retorna Brevium4.6Bacon’s Law Tracts;4.6History & Practise of Common Pleas4.Doctrina placitandi4.AR Wentworth’s Office of Exrs4.Notes of Cses in C B in points of Practise4.Treasures of Ireland3.6English Liberties3.6Treatise of Frauds2.6Book of Oaths2.6Blunt’s Fragments Antiquitatis2.6Woman’s Lawyer2.Judgments in C B & B R2.Essay for regulating the Laws2.Philips’s Grandeur of the Laws2.Special Law Cases1.6Bellew’s Cases from Statham1.6Lawyer’s Light1.6Ius Tratrum1.Critica Iuris Genissa1.Bibliotheca Legum1.Chambers’s Dictionary 2 vol4.4.Milton’s Works 2 vol2.2.Universal History 5th. 39/ 6th44 7th576.7.6Arbuthnot’s Tables16.History of Europe 5 vol15.Grays Hudibras 2 vol13.History of Peter the Great 3 vol13.Nature displayed 4 vol12.Treatise of Money & Exchanges10.6English Compendium 2 vol10.6Irish & Scotch each 7.615.London Magazine for 1743 & 174413.2Present State of Great Britain5.6GF Dycke’s Dictionary5.6Blandy’s Tables4.6Geography reformed3.6Hewit’s Tables1.8Trunk Matt & Cord4.53.13.6

SterlingCurrtEntry 2/ Cartage 1/ Searchers 1/ Shipping & Warfage 2/6 Waterage 2/6 Gill Lad 6d9.6Commission at 2 pr Cent1.1.10Freight & Primage 2½ prCent1.7.7¼Insurance Policy & ½ prCent Commission to pay 98 in case of Loss11.6.6¾67.18.NovemberTo MrWilliam Jordan for Sundrys VizBroughton’s Dictionary2 vol fol£ 1.5.WWGrey’s Hudibras211.6Modern Husbandman313.GMRollins Belles Lettres2 sets 41.1.Pamela48.8David Simple12.2Joseph Andrews2.2GMHarskey’s Virgil2.8½GMTerence2.8½GMHorace2.8½Epistle on drinking5½Pleasures of Imagination11Swift’s Sermons5½Bulingbroke’s Remarks2.4GMRollins Ancient History 13 vol2.5.6Irish Historical Library3.7.4.3½9.11.1747AprilTo Cash pd for 2 of Stith’s Histories of Virga1.1.8Debates in Parliament 21 vol3.18.A Common prayer book10.5.9.8GMTo William Parks for Ainsworth’s Dictionary2.10.Memoirs of Pope’s Life &c.12.63.2.6To Doctor McKenzie for the History of London3.14.3CDLives of the Admirals 4 vol2.2.35.16.6IPTo MrJordan for 20 vol Universal History7.14.OctoberISTo Doctor McKenzie for Costlogon’s 2 vol Do8.1.4GMTo Cash paid for Bustorf’s Herbron Lexicon13.GMHeereboord’s Burgersdicius4.MarchTo Mrs. Grace Mercer for sundrys VizGMClark’s Romer 2 vol13.GMMurphy’s Leucian. 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