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Plusieurs tres-bons cases : come ils estoyent adjudgees es trois premiers ans [1624-1627] du raign du feu Roy Charles le Premier en la Court de bank le Roy, non encore publiees per aucun autre colligees per le feu scavant & tres-erudite homme monsieur Jean Latch ... avec deux tables ... publiees per Edward Walpoole by John Latch

An Universal history from the earliest account of time to the present : compiled from original authors and illustrated with maps, cuts, notes, chronological and other tables by George Psalmanazar

Les reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer, chevalier & baronet ... [1619- 1629] Imprime & publie per l'original. Ovesque deux tables, l’un des nosmes des cases, l’auter des principal matters conteinus en yceux by Sir Gefrey Palmer

Notitia parliamentaria: or, An history of the counties, cities and boroughs in England and Wales ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences by Browne Willis

The reports of Richard Brownlow and John Goldesborough, Esquires; the first and second part by Richard Brownlow

Reports of cases argued and adjudged in the courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in the reigns of the late King William, Queen Anne, King George the First, and His Present Majesty. [1694-1732] Taken and collected by the Right Honourable Robert lord Raymond by Lord Robert Raymond

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TagsBritish Law (112), Case Law (61), History (34), British History (14), Legal History (8), Law (8), British Politics (6), Reference (6), Religion (6), Canon Law (5) — see all tags

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About meThe Pennsylvania General Assembly was founded during the early colonial period. Today it is the legislative branch of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania's government.

About my libraryThe Pennsylvania General Assembly Collection was the 422-volume library of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Currently residing in the Rare Books Room of the State Library of Pennsylvania, the General Assembly Collection slipped out of history after its move from Philadelphia to Harrisburg in the early years of the 19th century. It was only in the 1960s that dedicated researchers from Independence National Historic Park and the State Library of Pennsylvania realized the historical value of this collection, and that all of the volumes were still together.

The first books in the collection, the 'Statutes at Large,' were purchased after the Assembly directed its clerk, Benjamin Franklin, in 1745 to buy some law books and maps for their use. Starting in 1752, the Assembly's Speaker, Isaac Norris II, worked to purchase further books for the collection. Norris and Franklin purchased the books from dealers in London.

In following years, the books were boxed up and moved several times to protect them from war, and to follow the Assembly. Both General Assembly and its library moved to Harrisburg in 1812.

The books in this virtually intact colonial-era library are the core of today's State Library of Pennsylvania. Much of the Assembly Collection was conserved during 2007-2008 at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (Philadelphia, PA) under a prestigious "Save America's Treasures" grant. "Save America's Treasures" is a public-private partnership between the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Homepagehttp://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us

Real namePennsylvania General Assembly

LocationState Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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Member sinceDec 22, 2008