English liberties: or, The free-born subject's inheritance, containing, I. Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act; and divers other most useful statutes: with large comments upon each of them. II. The proceedings in appeals of murther; the work and powe of parliaments; the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. As also the oath and dutyof [sic] grand and petty juries. III. The terms of liberty of conscience, confirmed to Protestant dissenters, by act of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of our graciou Sovreign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary. IV. An abstract of penal laws against popish recusants, priests and Jesuites, &c. V. The office and duty of a constable, church-warden, surveyer of the high-ways, or scavenger in all their respective qualifications, in which the meanest capacity may be enabled and instructed in the performance of his office.

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  • English liberties: or, The free-born subject's inheritance, containing, I. Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, the Habeas Corpus Act; and divers other most useful statutes: with large comments upon each of them. II. The proceedings in appeals of murther; the work and powe of parliaments; the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. As also the oath and dutyof [sic] grand and petty juries. III. The terms of liberty of conscience, confirmed to Protestant dissenters, by act of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of our graciou Sovreign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary. IV. An abstract of penal laws against popish recusants, priests and Jesuites, &c. V. The office and duty of a constable, church-warden, surveyer of the high-ways, or scavenger in all their respective qualifications, in which the meanest capacity may be enabled and instructed in the performance of his office.
  • English liberties Free-born subject's inheritance
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Imprint
London: printed for Sarah Harris, in Maiden-Lane, over against Haberdasher's Hall, 1691.
Publication year
1691-1691
ESTC No.
R31287
Grub Street ID
114088
Description
[6], 184 p. ; 12⁰
Note
Anonymous. By Henry Care.

This later edition includes information about statutes enacted during the reign of William and Mary and also adds a separate secion, number IV for the penal laws agains papists (originally part of section III). There is a new section, number V, concerning duties of constables church-wardens, surveyors of highways, and scavengers. The commentary on the writ De Excommunicato Capiendo, included in earlier editions, is omitted here.Citation/references Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C518