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Title

The judicial and ministerial officie of coroner

Authors

• Davidson, Thomas
• Greenwood, William, attorney

Call number

Ms. Codex 1565
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4795723
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4795723

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with forms in Latin (f. 13r-22r)

Origin

Date

1714-1726

Place

Northumberland

Summary

Handbook for coroners concerning inquisitions, including a definition and qualifications of the position, instructions on how to hold an inquest, and forms in Latin to be issued by the court connected with various types of deaths. Abridged and rearranged from the section on coroners from William Greenwood's treatise on county courts, published under a variety of titles, including Authority, jurisdiction, and method of keeping county courts; Bouleuterion; Practical demonstration of county-judicatures; and Greenwood revis'd (first published 1659, 7th edition published 1703). Some text, perhaps a gathering, missing between first and second gatherings (between f. 6 and f. 7). The text on the last pages of the manuscript (f. 31r-36v) consists of definitions of various categories of homicide and felony, not copied from Greenwood but probably copied from another legal reference work. A sample form for a coroner's inquest, written by Davidson in regnal year 12 of George I (1725 or 1726), ruled in lead and written in ink, on a larger piece of paper formerly folded in the parchment pouch with the manual, is now unfolded and stored separately with the manuscript.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title, author, and date from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

36 115 x 65 mm. +

Collation

Paper, 36; 1-2⁶ 3-4¹⁰ 5⁴; [1-36], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Sewn gatherings stored in parchment pouch.

Layout

Written in 22-24 long lines; left vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines ruled in ink.

Script

Written in the English secretary hand of Thomas Davidson.

Provenance

• Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Mundesley, England), cat. 8 (2010), no. 24.
   

Subjects topical

• Coroners--Great Britain--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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