A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of that part of Great Britain, call'd England : and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now very much augmented and improv'd, by the addition of many thousand words, as are found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records, not hitherto explain'd in any dictionary, to the year 1708 : with an appendix, containing the antient names of places in (that part of Great-Britain call'd) England, very necessary for the use of all such, that converse with ancient deeds, charters, &c.

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Cowell, John, 1554-1611 [Browse]
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English
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London : Printed for D. Browne, R. Sare, S. Battersby, J. Walthoe ... [et al.], 1708.
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[350] p. ; 33 cm.

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    • Originally issued with title: The Interpreter, or, Booke Containing the Signification of Words ... Cambridge : Printed by Iohn Legate, 1607.
    • The preface includes (p. [7]-[9]) the Proclamation of James I., dated 25th of March, 1610, by which the 1st edition of Cowell's Interpreter, 1607, was suppressed.
    • "A catalogue of books": 1 leaf preceding t.p. (lacking)
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    Interpreter of words and terms
    LCCN
    29005627
    OCLC
    7090927
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