The book of the general laws of the inhabitants of the jurisdiction of New-Plimouth : collected out of the records of the General Court and lately revised : and with some emendations and additions, established and disposed into such order as they may readily conduce to general use and benefit : and published by the authority of the General Court for that jurisdiction, held at Plimouth, the sixth of June, anno Dom. 1671
The book of the general laws of the inhabitants of the jurisdiction of New-Plimouth : collected out of the records of the General Court and lately revised : and with some emendations and additions, established and disposed into such order as they may readily conduce to general use and benefit : and published by the authority of the General Court for that jurisdiction, held at Plimouth, the sixth of June, anno Dom. 1671
Title (alt.):
Book of the general laws of the inhabitants of the jurisdiction of New-Plymouth
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Conserved and digitized at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts, in 2020. Images of previous binding inserted at end of sequence.
Notes (ownership):
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.102.11 with BPL bookplate on front pastedown. Ca. 19th-century inscription on front pastedown. Ownership inscription of Amos Bancroft(?) ("Amos Bancroft, to be returned to him") on front flyleaf recto. At head of title page: "This booke appertaines unto Simon Lynde of Boston" (possibly Judge Simon Lynde, 1624-1687). Half page of legal opinions in Lynde's hand on front flyleaf facing title page. BPL embossed stamp and perforation stamp on title page. Purchased from Dr. Samuel Abbott Green in September, 1880.
Notes (citation):
Evans, C. American bibliography, 171
English short title catalogue, W36694
Notes (object):
"Be subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake. 1 Pet. 2. 13."--Title page.
Signatures: A-P².
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.102.11 formerly comprised the first part of a volume that also contained: 2. The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets Colony (Evans 168), with session laws for 1672, 1672-1673, and 1674 (Evans 169, 177, 190) -- 3. The book of the general laws for the people within the jurisdiction of Conecticut (Evans 173). That volume was disbound at the BPL and broken into three parts, now cataloged separately under call numbers: H.102.11 (the present volume), H.101.21 nos.1-4, and H.102.77.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.102.11 bound in modern brown paper over boards. Originally bound by John Ratcliff in blind tooled sheepskin over pasteboards, the initials "W.L." stamped in blind on both covers. Later disbound, retaining original upper cover, with a lower cover of ca. 18th-/19th-century mottled calfskin apparently added by the BPL bindery. H.102.77 retains lower cover from original Ratcliff binding.
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