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 .

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 power of parliaments, the qualifications necessary for such as should be chosen to that great trust. Plain directions for all persons concerned in ecclesiastical courts, and how to prevent or take off the writ De Excommunicato Capiendo. As also the oath and duty of grand and petty juries -- III. All the laws against conventicles and Protestant dissenters with notes, and directions both to constables and others concern'd, thereupon, and an abstract of all the laws against papists. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT LEGAL WORK. (1682?) 16mo, [15cm] [4] 228 pp. One of three variant imprints, the imprints are separate issues, rather than editions. Contemporary Calf. Excellent throughout. RARE.