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1682 SCOTLAND Laws of Scottish Parliament Politics Edinburgh RARE Witchcraft

Thomas Murray's 'Laws and Acts of Parliament' is a rare 17th-century collection of legal proceedings and laws enacted in Scotland beginning in 1424 through the early 18th-century and the Act of Union merging England and Scotland as Great Britain.

Item number: #25226
Price: $750

MURRAY, Thomas

The laws and acts of Parliament made by King James the First and his royal successors, kings and queen of Scotland

Edinburgh: Printed by Iosua van Solingen, for David Lindsay and his co-partners, 1682.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages;
o [12], 1018
· Provenance: Bookplate – Lord Macduff
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~5.75in X 3.25in (14.5cm x 8cm)

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Edinburgh: Josua van Solingen; John Colmar; David Linsday, 1682. Leather. Good Only. 6" by 3". None. A historically important collection of the legal proceedings of Scotland in the years of turmoil up until the county's merging with England. The first part of this work, lacking the second part. The second part is titled 'The Acts Made in the First Parliament of Our Most High and Dread Sovereign, Charles the First'. This work is credited with having the earliest mention of golf in print. ESTC citation number R30549. This ESTC listing states a different pagination and register. The signatures run as *6, A-N12, O10. With two preliminary contents leaves, titled 'Lectori de Libro'. This work is a collection of the legal proceedings and laws from 1424 to 1564 that were enacted in Scotland. The complete work finished with the merging of Scotland and England as Great Britain. That period was a tumultuous time in Scotland, under the leadership of the Stuarts. It saw the life of Mary Stuart,… Read More