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The proctor and parator their mourning, or, The lamentation of the Doctors Commons for their downfall : Being a true dialogue, relating the fearfull abuses and exorbitancies of those spirituall courts, under the names of Sponge the proctor, and Hunter the parator.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawyers--England--Humor--Early works to 1800.
- Lawyers.
- England.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Newbold, C.B. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Lamentation of the Doctors Commons for their downfall.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reprinted by J. Compton, [1820?]
- Notes:
- Imprint from verso of t.p.
- Original imprint: [London : s.n.], Printed in the yeare 1641.
- A satire on lawyers.
- With a title-page woodcut.
- Local Notes:
- Bound with: One who hath too much cause to have knowledge of her conversation. The high-way woman, or, A true and perfect narrative of the wicked life, and deplorable death of Marcy Clay, otherwise called Jenny Fox. [London : Reprinted by J. Compton, 182-?]. (Item 2 of 4)
- OCLC:
- 305135313
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