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• A supplement by way of additions to and amplifications of the foregoing treatise, concerning copy-hold and customary estates wherein the grounds laid down in the said treatise are made good and confirmed by several resolutions and judgements given in the courts of common laws of England in divers cases. (London : printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assignes of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns, Esquires, 1668), by Edward Coke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Custom & tenant-right (Wildy & sons, 1882), by Charles Isaac Elton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The relation betweene the lord of a mannor and the coppy-holder his tenant : delivered in the learned readings of ... (The Manorial Society, 1917), by Charles Calthrope and W. F. Annesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of Heriots : with an introductory note on their origin (Butterworths, Law Publishers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1892), by E. Broughton Broughton-Rouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law tracts, : in two volumes, (At the Clarendon Press, 1762), by William Blackstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on copyhold tenure : with the methods of holding courts leet, court baron, and other courts, and an appendix containing forms of entries on court rolls, and minute books, surveys, stewards fees, and a variety of precedents on the mode of conveying copyhold estates (J. Butterworth ;, 1803), by Richard Barnard Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical treatise on copyhold tenure : with the methods of holding courts leet, court baron, and other courts, and an appendix containing forms of entries on court rolls, and minute books, surveys, stewards fees, and a variety of precedents on the mode of conveying copyhold estates (J. Butterworth, 1794), by Richard Barnard Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to James Stewart : on the enfranchisement of copyholds. (C. Adlard, 1839), by John Meadows White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex maneriorum: or, The law and customs of England, relating to manors and lords of manors, their stewards, deputies, tenants, and others ... The whole being a methodical collection of the cases dispersed in the several volumes of the law relating to copyhold estates, and to every thing depending on that tenure. To which is added, an Appendix of all the modern entries of declarations, pleas ... demurrers, issues, special verdicts, writs of recordari, certiorari, &c., relating to the said cases. With proper tables to the whole. (J. Hooke, 1728), by William Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts, chiefly relating to the antiquities and laws of England. (Clarendon Press, 1771), by William Blackstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of tenures; including the theory & practice of copyholds. (Printed by A. Strahan, for J. Butterworth, 1796), by Geoffrey Gilbert and Charles Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex custumaria (Printed by the assigns of R. and E. Atkins, esquires, for D. Bown and J. Walthoe, 1701), by Samuel Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleate copy-holder : wherein is contained a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, with all things thereto incident ... (Printed for Matthew Walbanck and Richard Best, 1644), by Edward Coke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentary upon Littleton (Printed by William Rawlins, and Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, esquires, 1703), by Edward Coke and Thomas Littleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex maneriorum: or, The law and customs of England, relating to manors and lords of manors, their stewards, deputies, tenants, and others ... The whole being a methodical collection of the cases dispersed in the several volumes of the law relating to copyhold estates, and to every thing depending on that tenure. To which is added, an Appendix of all the modern entries of declarations, pleas ... demurrers, issues, special verdicts, writs of recordari, certiorari, &c., relating to the said cases. With proper tables to the whole. (In the Savoy, J. Hooke, 1726), by William Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copyhold and other land tenures of England (Estates Gazette, 1919), by Benaiah W. Adkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of tenure : including the theory and practice of copyholders (J. & W.T. Clarke, 1824), by Geoffrey Gilbert, Robert Studley Vidal, and Charles Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of copyholds and customary tenures of land : with an appendix containing the Copyhold Acts of 1852, 1858, 1887, the principal forms used by the Board of Agriculture, precedents of assurances, and forms. (Wildy and Sons, 1893), by Charles Isaac Elton, J. G. Pease, William Wills, Herbert J. H. Mackay, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A reprint of: -- The relation betweene the lord of a mannor and the coppy-holder his tenant (Printed for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop neere Furnivals Inne-gate in Holborne, 1635), by Charles Calthrope and W. F. Annesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brown's Copyhold enfranchisement acts. (Butterworths, 1903), by Archibald Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copyhold and other land tenures of England. (Estates Gazette, 1907), by Benaiah W. Adkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of copyholds and customary tenures of landmicroform : with an appendix containing an abstract of the stamp duties affecting copyhold estates, the Copyhold Acts of 1852 and 1858, and the principal official forms used for enfranchisement, inclosure, exchange and partition (Wildy & Sons, 1874), by Charles Isaac Elton, Herbert J. H. Mackay, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient customs of the manor of Taunton Deane : collected from the records of the manor, presented by the jury at the Law-day court, the twenty fourth of April 1817, and published under their sanction ; to which are prefixed, some introductory observations on copyholds in general, and remarks on those of this manor in particular, with the origin, history, and nature, of courts leet, and courts baron. ([publisher not identified], 1821), by H. B. Shillibeer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surrenders of copyhold property considered : with reference to future and springing uses (Printed for W. Walker, 1819), by Francis Williams Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copyhold and other land tenures of England (Estates Gazette ltd. ; Sweet & Maxwell, 1911), by Benaiah W. Adkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copyhold cases in the early chancery proceedings (Longmans, Green, 1902), by Alexander Savine and Great Britain. Court of Chancery (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of tenures : in two parts (Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for Dan. Browne, 1730), by Geoffrey Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gilbert's tenures. (In the Savoy, Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for Robert Gosling and Daniel Browne, 1738), by Geoffrey Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of copyholds and of the other tenures (customary and freehold) of lands within manors; with the law of manors and manorial customs generally, and the rules of evidence applicable thereto; including the law of commons or waste lands; and also the jurisdiction of the various manorial courts. (Butterworth & Co.; [etc.], 1896), by John Scriven and Archibald Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abstract of the grieuances and oppressions done by Sir Arthur Ingram, Kinght, and his agents, to Griswell Rogers, widow, and her poore orphan ([London : s.n., 1624]), by Griswell Rogers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Copy-holders plea against the excess of fines,: uncertain exacted of them by their lords upon their admittance. (London : Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange, 1653) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Epistola Medio-Saxonica, or, Middlesex first letter to His Excellency, the Lord General Cromwell together with their petition concerning tithes and copy-holds of inheritance, presented to the supreme authority, the Parliament of England : wherein the tortious and illegal usurpation of tithes, contrary to Magna Charta, is discovered, the blemished dignity of copy-holders revived, and how lords of manors have formerly incroached upon their liberties, by imposing arbitrary fines, and multiplying of heriots : whereunto is annexed two additional cases concerning the unreasonable exactions of fines and heriots, contrary to law, in these latter times ... (London : Printed by F.L. for William Larnar ..., 1653), by Oliver Cromwell and Augustus. Vindiciae Medico-Saxonicae Wingfield (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A brief narrative of the case between His Royal Highness James duke of York, lord of the mannor of Richmond aliàs West-sheen, in the county of Surry; George Carew esq; one of the customary tenants of the said manor, and Sir James Butler, mortgagee upon a conditional surrender, and others concerned in the said case. ([London : s.n.,: , 1682]), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King a proclamation to declare and publish His Maiesties resolution, to ascertaine his reuenue, by granting his lands holden aswell by copie, as otherwise in fee-farme. (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVI [1626]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lex custumaria, or, A treatise of copy-hold estates in respect of the lord, copy-holder wherein the nature of customs in general, and of particular customs, grants and surrenders, and their constructions and expositions in reference to the thing granted or surrendred, and the uses or limitations of estates are clearly illustrated : admittances, presentments, fines and forfeitures are fully handled, and many quaeries and difficulties by late resolution setled : leases, licences, extinquishments of copy-hold estates, and what statutes extend to copy-hold estates are explained : and also of actions by lord or tenant, and the manner of declaring and pleading, either generally or as to particular customs, with tryal and evidence holder may recieve relief in the Court of Chancery : to which are annexed presidents of conveyances respecting copy-holds, releases, surrenders, grants presentmets, and the like : as also presidents of court rolls, surrenders, admittances, presentments, &c. / by S.C., Barister at Law. (London : Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins ... for John Walthoe and are to be sold in his shop ..., 1696), by Samuel Carter (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The relation betweene the lord of a mannor and the coppy-holder his tenant. Delivered in the learned readings of the late excellent and famous lawyer, Char. Calthrope of the Honorable Society of Lincolnes-Inne Esq; whereby it doth appeare for what causes a coppy-holder may forfeite his coppy-hold estate, and for what not; and like wise what lord can grant a coppy, and to whom. Published for the good of the lords of mannors, and their tenants (London : Printed [by J. Okes] for William Cooke and are to be sold at his shop neere Furnivals Inne gate in Holborne, 1635), by Charles Calthrope (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anno primo Caroli Regis (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, M.DC.XXVI [1626]), by England and Wales and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proclamation declaring His Maiesties royall grace and pleasure, to confirme to his subiects their defectiue estates in their lands and possessions (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie: And by the Assignes of Iohn Bill, 1635), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Abstract of the seuerall heads and branches of His Maiesties commission of grace, for the securing, setling, and confirming to his subiects their defectiue titles, estates and possessions (Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, Anno M.DC.XXVIII [1628]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and Charles 1600-1649 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Propositions 1. For recording and registering of deeds and conveyances. 2. Judgments, statutes, and other incumbrances upon lands and tenements. For prevention of frauds and deceits in sales; and quieting of possessions of purchasers. 3. For inabling creditors to have the benefit of copy-hold, and intayled lands and tenements for their satisfaction. As far as may be conveyed by surrender, or cut off by fine or common recovery; and of all chattals real, as well as personall. / By William Leach of the Middle-Temple, gent. (London : Printed by W:H: and are to be sold by G:B: at his shop in Fleetstreet, 1651), by William Leach (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A treatise on the law of copyholds and customary tenures of landmicroform : with an appendix containing an abstract of the stamp duties affecting copyhold estates, the Copyhold Acts of 1852 and 1858, and the principal official forms used for enfranchisement, inclosure, exchange and partition (Wildy & Sons, 1874), by Charles Isaac Elton, Herbert J. H. Mackay, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copyhold enfranchisement and commutation. (Waterlow & Sons, 1888), by W. Stephen Tunbridge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our land laws of the past (Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1881), by W. E. Baxter and England) Cobden Club (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Earl of Exeter with divers other lords and gentlemen are proprietors and owners ... of 36000 acres of fen and meadow ground, lying between the rivers of Glenn and Kyme Eaye in the county of Lincoln ... ([London : s.n., 1661]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Instruccions geuen by the kynges maiestie, to his commissioners, appoynted for the execucion of certain statutes, made in the fourth yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the Seuenth and the vii and the xxvii yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the Eight to be inquired of, iu [sic] the shires and places, in the commission hereunto annexed, expressed. (Excusum Londini : In ædibus Richardi Graftoni regij impressoris, Me[n]se Iulij, M.D.XLIX), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1547-1553 : Edward VI) and King of England Edward VI (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for further doubling the sum of one hundred thousand pounds,: upon an act, entituled, An act for sale of several lands and estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for treason. ([London : Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1652]), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A learned treatise concerning wards and liveries written by the Right Honourable and learned gentleman St. James Ley, Knight and Baronet, Earle of Marlebrough ... (London : Printed by G. Bishop and R. White for Henry Shepheard and Henry Twyford ..., 1642), by James Ley Marlborough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Complete copy-holder (London : Printed by T. Cotes for W. Cooke ..., 1641), by Edward Coke (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An act concerning the determination of several claims now depending before the Commissioners for removing obstructions. (Printed by John Field, Printer to the Parliament of England, 1653), by England and Wales Parliament, Henry Scobell, and John Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• VVhereas many petitions have been preferred to the Right Honourable the Master of this Court for obtaining grants of severall vvardships and leases of the lands of his Majesties vvards, ... and like proceedings to continue from terme to terme, at the perill of the parties whom it doth or may concerne, untill further and other order to the contrary. Will. Say and seal. Benjamin Rudyerd. Row. Wandesford. Charles Maynard. Iames Tooke. ([London] : Printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honourable House of Commons, at the signe of the Golden Dragon in Fleetstreet, [1645]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Ligeancia lugens, or, Loyaltie lamenting the many great mischiefs and inconveniences which will fatally and inevitably follow the taking away of the royal pourveyances and tenures in capite and by knight-service, which being ancient and long before the conquest were not then, or are now, any slavery, publick or general grievence with some expedients humbly offered for the prevention thereof / by Fabian Philipps. (London : Printed by J.M. for Andrew Crook and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1661), by Fabian Philipps (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King. A proclamation giving a further time for the amendment of defective titles. (Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, Anno 1609), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and James (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons for the continuance of the common assurance of land by fines ([London? : s.n., 1650?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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