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Britton : [a treatise on the laws of England]

by: Breton, John le, d. 1275; Breton, John le, d. 1275; Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656, ed; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; Gridley, Jeremiah, 1702-1767, former owner. BRL; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL

Publication date: 1640

Topics: Law, Law

Publisher: London : Printed by the assignes of John Moore, Esquire

Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; universityofottawa; americana; toronto

Contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

Language: French

Text in law is in French; preliminaries and corrections in English

With 21 final errata leaves

Attributed to John Breton or Britton, but largely based on "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae" by Henry de Bracton

The assigns of John Moore were Miles Fletcher, John Haviland and Robert Young; the printer's device on the t.p. bears the initials R.Y

Signatures: [par.], *, A-X, Aa-Qq, R-S(last verso blank)

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Quincy Adams Fidem libertatem amicitiam

John Adams Library copy inscribed on outer edges: "Britton."

John Adams Library copy inscribed with crossed out signature on t.p.: "Jer. Gridley."

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

ESTC

STC (2nd ed.)

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894