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Identifier
KD 313 .R38 1671
Creation Date
1671
Description
Rastell, John. Les Termes de la Ley, Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms of the Common Laws and Statutes of this Realm Now in Use Expounded and Explained. London: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, Assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, 1671.
Originally published in 1527 under the title Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum, John Rastell's (1508–1565) book was translated and published in English as Les Termes de la Ley by his son, William, beginning in 1647. A popular work, multiple versions of the English edition followed. Ultimately, the book was superseded by larger and more elaborate dictionaries such as John Cowell's (1554–1611) Interpreter. This copy includes multiple markings by prior owners.
Inscription on the front pastedown of John Rastell's Les Termes de la Ley, 1671: "Richard Chamberlin His book 1708. If my pen had benn but bettur, I wold amend Every lettur." Available as an additional file, below.
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Inscription, Les Termes de la Ley