[Rarebooks] Adultery, Divorce, Incest, and Impotency--and 'Bawdy Courts'

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[BAWDY COURTS].  The Clerk's Instructor in The Ecclesiastical
Courts: Consisting Of a Variety of the best Precedents in
English, now made use of in the Practice of the Civil Law . . .
Also A Treatise concerning Pluralities . . . By a Gentleman of
Doctors Commons.  Printed by Sarah Cotter under Dick's
Coffee-house [etc.], Dublin, 1766.  Contemporary calf, neatly
rebacked, the original label preserved, some foxing and browning,
else a good copy; six copies in ESTC, one in a law library.
[77261 XY] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=77261 $ 850.00

The rare, only Irish edition of a work reminding us of the
popular conception of church courts as 'bawdy courts', treating
in part of incest, impotency, adultery, cruelty and divorce, as
well as defamation, wills, and all matters of church business.

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