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A very good and original full leather binding. 8vo. [8pp.]/pp.lii/pp.576. Brown full calf. Corners and hinges carefully strengthened. Spine darkened with 5 raised bands and old brown leather title label: "Coles Laws Of Bedford Level". Engraved armorial bookplate to the verso of the front board: "Sr. Martin Browne Ffolkes, Bart.". Printed title. Clean text throughout. A well preserved copy of this scarce publication. * Referenced by: ESTC t130409 / Referenced by: Higgs, H. Bibl. of economics 2554 / OCLC 23282932 . ** Sir Martin Browne Ffolkes, 1st Baronet, FRS (21 May 1749 11 December 1821). He was an English baronet and Member of Parliament. Martin Ffolkes was the only son of William ffolkes, a barrister of Hillington, Norfolk and his second wife Mary, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Browne, MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians. ***Contents include: Lynn Law -- Indenture of fourteen parts -- Charter of incorporation of Charles the First in Latin -- The same translated into English -- St. Ives law of sewers -- A schedule and particular of the 95000 A. -- Pretended act of parliament -- Fifteenth of Charles the Second -- Twentieth of Charles the Second -- Survey of the 83000 A. -- First of James the Second -- North Level act -- Nene act -- Bond act -- Stile act, clause relative to Bedford Level Corporation. *** "COLE, Charles Nalson (1723 1804), lawyer, was son of Charles Cole, rector of North Crowley, Buckinghamshire, who was the son of an apothecary of Ely. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, which he left after taking his B.A. degree in 1743, and became a student of the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar. Afterwards he became registrar of the Bedford Level Corporation, and published 'A Collection of Laws which form the Constitution of the Bedford Level Corporation, with an Introductory History thereof,' London, 1761, 8vo. He died in Edward Street, Cavendish Square, London, on 18 Dec. 1804, aged 81." - See Wikisource .
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