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The Conductor generalis: or, The office , duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, coroners, constables, gaolers, jury-men, and overseers of the poor. As also, the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c. Compiled chiefly from Burn's Justice, and the several other books, on those subjects, by James Parker, late one of the justices of the peace for Middlesex County, in New-Jersey; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America. By a gentleman of the law. The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles. To which are added, the excise and militia laws of the United States; and the acts called the Ten Pound Act of the states of Pennsylvania and New-York.
Date: 1792- E-journals
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Conductor generalis: or, The office , duty and authority of justices of the peace, high-sheriffs, under-sheriffs, goalers, coroners, constables, jury-men, and overseers of the poor. As also the office of clerks of assize, and of the peace, &c. Collected out of all the books hitherto written on those subjects, whether of common or statute-law. The whole alphabetically digested under the several titles; with a table directing to the ready finding out the proper matter under those titles. To which is added, a collection out of Sir Mathew Hales, concerning the descent of lands; with several choice maxims in law, and the office of mayors, &c.
Date: 1750
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A Scottish sheriff, advertising Sherriffs ointment for skin diseases. Colour lithograph.
Alexander Sherriffs (Troon, Scotland)Date: [1900?]Reference: 44271i
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A short treatise touching sheriffs accompts ... / Written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ... To which is added, A tryal of witches, at the assizes held at Bury St. Edmonds, for the county of Suffolk, on the 10th of March 1664, before the said Sir Matthew Hale, kt.
Matthew HaleDate: 1683- Pictures
The head of John Wilkes, the Lord Mayor Brass Crosby and the recently elected sheriff, Frederick Bull decorated with civic chains pass as meteors through the sky into the mouth of oblivion. Engraving, 1771.
Date: [1 Nov. 1771]Reference: 584757i