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The Liber custumarum: the book of the ancient usages [e]t customs of the town of Northampton, from the earliest record to 1448. / Edited by Christopher A. Markham.
LIBRA DA690.N8 A3
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Customary law--England--Northampton.
- Customary law.
- England--Northampton.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 103 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece, facsimile ; 29 x 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton : Taylor & son, The Dryden press, 1895.
- Notes:
- Title vignette (arms of Northampton).
- Head and tail pieces.
- "Limited impression, 100 copies."
- "A record, compiled about the middle of the fifteenth century by an unknown hand, of the customs, usages, evidences, and laws, then existing in the town ... In contracted Latin, Norman-French, and mediaeval English. The present work contains a literal reproduction of as nearly as possible one-third of the Liber custumarum, the earliest, and therefore the most important part ... The Latin has been translated by the Rev. W. D. Sweeting, M.A., and in all cases the original and translation are printed in parallel columns."--Pref., signed: John Taylor.
- OCLC:
- 19942889
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