Legal notebook of Thomas Birch [manuscript], compiled ca. 1647-ca. 1700.
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Title
Legal notebook of Thomas Birch [manuscript], compiled ca. 1647-ca. 1700.
Description
1 volume (182 pages) ; 129 x 79 mm
Scope and content
A formulary of such warrants, writs, oaths, etc., as a justice of the peace might find helpful in fulfilling his duties; also, "A Breviate of Rates & Taxes out of Mr. Will[ia]m Crabtree of Broughton his Booke for the County of Lancast[e]r" (p. 63) (a similar work mentioned under Crabtree in the Oxford DNB dated 1650), and other rates "taken out of Blomeleys book in Mr. Chippings hands of Ormskirk." Notes include manicules (in annotated printed V.a.395 item 3 as well).
Note
[8], 134, [20], [20] p. Final [20] p. follow printed item 3. Blank pages on p. [3-5] before p. 1, p. 118-134 and p. [12-14] following p. 134.
Includes index.
Bound with: White, J. A briefe and easie almanack for this yeare 1650 . . . [London, 1650] Wing A2705A (V.a.395 item 1); A manual, or, A justice of peace his vade mecum . . . [Cambridge] 1641, Wing M545 (V.a.395 item 3), heavily annotated by Birch; White, W. A briefe and easie almanack for this yeare 1656 . . . [London, 1656] ESTC R236747 (V.a.395 item 4).
Includes index.
Bound with: White, J. A briefe and easie almanack for this yeare 1650 . . . [London, 1650] Wing A2705A (V.a.395 item 1); A manual, or, A justice of peace his vade mecum . . . [Cambridge] 1641, Wing M545 (V.a.395 item 3), heavily annotated by Birch; White, W. A briefe and easie almanack for this yeare 1656 . . . [London, 1656] ESTC R236747 (V.a.395 item 4).
Historical background
The compiler seems to have been Thomas Birche of Birch, Lancashire. "Tho: Birche Octob[e]r 1647" (p. [7]); "Octob: 14.1647.Tho: Birche" (p. [17] following p. 134).
Binding information
Bound in sheepskin with evidence of metal clasps and repair to spine.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Lancashire.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.395 item 2
Folger accession
MS Add 359