The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets Colony : revised & re-printed, by order of the General Court holden at Boston, May 15th, 1672. Edward Rawson Secr.
The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets Colony : revised & re-printed, by order of the General Court holden at Boston, May 15th, 1672. Edward Rawson Secr.
Title (alt.):
The general laws and liberties of the Massachusetts Colony
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Publisher:
Cambridge :
Printed by Samuel Green, for John Usher of Boston
Digitized at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts, in 2020.
Notes (ownership):
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.101.21 no.1 with BPL bookplate. Unsigned inscription on A1 verso in the hand of Simon Lynde (possibly Judge Simon Lynde, of Boston, 1624-1687) with title "Memorandum touchinge attachments and executions." Purchased from Samuel Abbott Green in September, 1880.
Notes (citation):
Cushing, J.D. Bibliography of the laws and resolves of the Massachusetts Bay, 1642-1780, 28
English short title catalogue, R208
Evans, C. American bibliography, 168
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), M1003
Notes (object):
Signatures: [A]² B-C² D-G⁴ H-2R², ²A-G².
D4 and T2 signed D3 and T3; p. 16 misnumbered as 14.
"Whosoever therefore visiteth the Power, resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist receive to themselves Damnation. Rom. 13.2."--Title page (in two lines).
Title page with period at end of line 8 and comma at end of line 9. For detailed checklist of title page states, see Cushing.
Woodcut arms of Massachusetts on A1 verso. In some copies the woodcut is on the verso of the title page.
Index, titled "A summary of the laws forgoing alphabetically digested," unpaged and with separate register.
Errata on p. 170.
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.101.21 no.1 is the first of four items bound together into a single volume containing: 1. The general laws and liberties of the Massachusets colony: revised & re-printed. By order of the General Court holden at Boston, May 15th. 1672 (Evans 168) -- 2. Several laws and orders made at the General Court, holden at Boston the 15th of May 1672, and printed by their order (Evans 169) -- 3. Several laws and orders made at the General Court, the 8th. of October 1672 (Evans 177) -- 4. Several laws and orders made at the General Court holden at Boston the twenty seventh of May 1674 (Evans 190). Each item cataloged separately. Another copy of The general laws and liberties (Evans 168) is cataloged under call number H.30a.7 no.1.
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.101.21 nos.1-4: the current grouping of four separately cataloged items formerly comprised the middle portion of a volume bound by John Ratcliff that also contained: 1. The book of the general laws of the inhabitants of the jurisdiction of New-Plimouth (Evans 171) -- 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, H.101.21 nos.1-4 (the present volume), and H.102.77.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy H.101.21 no.1 bound in modern orange goatskin.
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