Law.- Lambard (William) Eirenarcha: or of the office of the Justices of Peace..., text in black letter, title with woodcut border, woodcut decorations and printer's device on verso of last f., final blank 2L8 present, ink inscription to front endpapers and title by a contemporary hand, worm holes to pastedowns and covers, front endpapers - a4 working loose, light browning and staining, surface soiling and marginal tears, partial cracking to gutter, contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal corner pieces and diamond central ornament, 2 out of 4 metal clasps remaining, early reback, lacking upper corner pieces to lower cover, some rubbing and general wear, library sticker to foot, [ESTC S108154], 8vo, Ralf Newbery, and H. Binneman, by the assignment of Richard Tottell and Christopher Barker, 1582.

*** A significant legal manual offering a rare glimpse into how law and order were maintained in Elizabethan England by local, often legally untrained officials. It shaped how justice was applied across the country during a period of political, religious and social upheaval. The note in a contemporary hand reads "If a man condemned in any court and his body in execution and after removed by a corpus (cum?) causa or certiorare into the Chauncery he shall not th be let to balle nor maynprise be remaunded to the prison th to abide after the law till that he hathe satisfied the playntiffe. anno 2 H.5 cap 2."