Mercer's Reading 1726-1732

[From Ledger B]

_Mr. John Graeme_

1726 By sundry Book bo^d of him belong^s to the Hon^{ble} Col^o

Spotswood. Viz.

The History of England 3 vols £4. 2

Clarendon's History 6 vols 2. 2

Tillotson's Works 15 vols 5.15

Plutarch's Lives 5 vols 1.10

Dryden's Virgil 3 vols 17.6

Cowley's Works 2 vols 13.

Milton's Paradise Lost 6.6

Secret Memories 7.7

Chamberlayne's State of England 6.6

Wilkin's Mathematical Works 5.6

Petronius 5.

Tilly's Orations 5.6

[Symbol: dagger]Bible 4

Hudibras 2 vol 5.3

Callipoedia 2.

Dunster's Horace 6.

De Gennes Voyage 3.

Banquet of Xenophon 3.

Congreve's Plays 4.

Lock's Essays 12.

Evelyn's Gardening 1.

[Symbol: dagger]Littleton's Dictionary }

[Symbol: dagger]Present State of Russia }

[Symbol: dagger]Sedley's Works } 1.

[Symbol: dagger]New Voyages }

[Symbol: dagger]New Travels }

[Symbol: dagger]Cole's Dictionary }

[All except those marked by [Symbol: dagger] are listed as returned on

the debit side]

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Law Books Bought of Mat Stotham

May 1732 Salkeld's Reports 1.18.

Ventris's Reports 1.15.

Jacob's Law Dictionary 1. 8.

Maxims of Equity 10.

Cursus Cancellaris 6.

Hearn's Pleader 1. 5.

Lilly's Practical Register 2 vol 14.

Treatise of Trespasses 6.

Laws of Evidence 8.

Laws of Ejectments 8.

The 5 last extraordinary scarce

_Account of Books lent & to whom_ (1730)

History of the Netherlands Jn^o Savage

July 13 Coles's Dictionary

History of the Royal Society Col^o Fitzhugh

Rochesters Works Andrew Forbes

Evelyn's Sylva Ralph Falkner

Woods Institutes 1^{st} Vol. Parson Rose

Mathesis Juvenilia }

Ozenam's Mathem. Recreations } Edmund Bagge

Cockers Arithmetick Robert Jones

30 Mariners Compass rectified M^r Savage

Travels thro' Italy &c Cap^t Hedgman

Daltons Justice D^o

_A Catalogue of the Books bought March 1730 of Mr Rob^t Beverley_

Coke's Reports temp Eliz^a Reg 1.10

Dalton's Officium Vicecomitum 1.

Coke upon Littleton 1.

Cokes 2^d, 3^d & 4^{th} Institutes 2. 4

Cooks Reports 1.

Laws of Virginia fol^o printed two 1. 4

Compleat Clerk 12.

Swinburne [18th-century author] 12.

Laws of the Sea 14.

Godolphin's Orphans Legacy 9.

Symboleography 14.

Sheppards Grand Abridgment 1.10.

Three Sets of Wingates Abridgm^t of Statutes 15.

Instructor Clericalis in 7 parts 1.15.

Woods Institutes 2 vol 8vo 12.

Placita Generalia 5.

Tryals per pair 5.

Practical Register 6.

Law of Obligations & Conditions 3.6

Reads Declarations 4.

Clerks Tutor 6.

Prasca Cancellaria 6.

Fitzherberts new Naturabrevium 6.

Brownlows Declarations 6.

Clerks Guide 3.6

Melloy de Jure maritime 6.

Grounds of the Law 3.

Compleat Attorney 5.

Terms of the Law 5.

Finch's Law 3.

Doctor & Student 3.

Greenwood of Courts 3.6

Law of Conveyances 3.

Practice of Chancery 5.

English Liberties 2.

Reports in Chancery 3.

Meriton 3.

Exact Constable 1.

Littletons Tenures 2.

Written Laws of Virginia 25.

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£46. 7.6

Woodbridge of Agriculture

The Compleat Angler

Salmons Dispensatory

The accomplished Cook

History of the Royal Society

March y^e 4th 1730, I promise to deliver the above mentioned

books being fifty two in number to M^rJohn Mercer or his Order

on demand.

Witness my hand the day & year abovewritten.

Rob^t Beverley

Test John Chew Copy

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