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JEAFFRESON, JOHN CORDY (EDITOR). Middlesex County Records. 4 Vols. 1886-1892.Jeaffreson, John C[ordy]. Middlesex County Records: Indictments, Coroners' Inquests-- Post-Mortem and Recognizances from 3 Edward VI [to] 4 James II. With an Index by A.T. Watson. London: Middlesex County Records Society, [1886-1892]. Four volumes. Octavo (9" x 6"). Original cloth, light rubbing to boards, expertly rebacked, gilt titles to spine, hinges mended. Contemporary armorial bookplate (of W. O. Danckwerts) to front pastedown of each volume, internally fresh. Ex-library. Stamps to title pages and endleaves. A nice set. $450. * First editions. The Records are complete in four volumes. The Quarter Sessions were the quarterly meetings of the whole body of the justices of the peace for a county for the transaction of business. With some exceptions, Quarter Sessions had original criminal jurisdiction to try all indictable offenses, and to sentence an offender convicted by a magistrate's court. "The historian of the future will thank the Middlesex County Records Society and its Editor for recovering, tabulating, and printing these old documents.... The work has been compiled with evident care... Throughout these pages much information may be gleaned touching the manners and customs, pleasures and occupations of our ancestors in the sixteenth century." Times, Jan. 25, 1887. HLC II:113.
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