The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of this realm, and in tenures and jocular customs; with an appendix, containing the antient names of places in England, very necessary for the use of all young students, that converse with antient deeds, charters, & c. / First publish'd by the learned Dr. Cowel, in the year 1607, and continu'd by Tho. Manley ... to the year 1684. Now further augmented and improv'd by White Kennett by the addition of many thousand words (distinguished thus ...) as are found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records, not hitherto explain'd in any dictionary.

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London : W. Battersby, J. Place, A. & J. Churchil, and R. Sare, 1701
Record id:
27035
Added title:
The interpreter.
Subject:
Law -- Dictionaries -- Great Britain.
English language -- Dictionaries -- History.
Note:
The preface includes (p. [10]-[11]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th of March, 1610, by which the 1st edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
Copy inscribed 'To Sir Harry Gibbs, with gratitude from James Douglas'.
Variant title:
Supreme Court Library Queensland. Legal heritage collection. Sir Harry Gibbs collection.
Phys. description:
351 pages