The history of gavel-kind

The history of gavel-kind

Full title: The history of gavel-kind : with the etymology thereof, containing also an assertion that our English laws are for the most part those that were used by the antient Brytains, notwithstanding the several conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans : with some observations and remarks upon many especial occurrences of British and English history / by Silas Taylor Gent. ; to which is added a short history of William the Conquerour, written in Latin by an anonymous author, in the time of Henry the First.

Silas Taylor, 1624-1678

London : Printed for John Starkey, and are to be sold at his shop at the Mitre in Fleet-street, between the Middle-gate and Temple-Barr

1663

[26], 211, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : genealogical table ; 19 cm (4to)

"Brevis relatio de Willelmo, nobilissimo comite Normanorum" has separate dated title page, with imprint "typis Guil. Wilson pro Johanne Starkey", on leaf 2B1r.

Genealogical table numbered 211.

Includes index (leaves a3-c1).

With final advertisement leaf.

Errata: p. 180.

Front cover detached; back hinge loose.
Presented by Principal Daniel Woolf [Gift2015]

Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.) donor
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English; Latin

Dated 1663 .T39
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), T553
ESTC R30161