Pleas of the crown: or, A methodical summary of the principal matters relating to that subject. By Sir Matthew Hale, Knight, Late Chief Justice of the King's Bench. To which is now added a learned treatise written by the same author, touching sheriff's accounts; and a tryal of witches at the assizes held at St. Edmonds Bury in Suffolk, before the said Sir Matthew Hales, when he was Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer

People / Organizations

• Matthew Hale (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns, Esquires: for D. Brown, without Temple-Bar, and J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple-Cloysters, 1707.

Added name

Browne, Daniel, 1647-1727, bookseller.; Walthoe, John, 1657 or 1658-1744, bookseller. ; Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, printer.

Publication year

1707

ESTC No.

N12162

Grub Street ID

2175

Description

[16], 272, [8]; [6], 110+ p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8°.

Note

Two 1707 editions with this imprint identified. The setting of the first work 'Pleas of the crown' differs between these editions. In this setting first line of preface (A2r) reads "There was lately published an". Last line of p.1 (B1r) reads "of the Offence" and p.263 (S4r) has catchword "1. Evi-"

'A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts' has separate pagination and register

With frontispiece portrait.