Appendix E Mercer’s Reading 1726-1732

Sterling
LAW BOOKS
Abridgments
	Cases in Equity abridged	£	18.
	Danvers’s Abridgment 3 vol	3.	10.
	Viner’s Abridgment 6 vol	8.	8.
	Davenport’s Abridgm^t of Coke on Littleton		2.
	Hughes’s Abridgm^t 2 vol		10.
	Ireland’s Abridgm^t of Dyer’s Reports	2.
	Rolle’s Abridgm^t interleaved 2 vol	5.
	Salmon’s Abridgm^t of the State trials	1.	15.
	Statutes abridged by Cay 2 vol	2.	10.
	State trials abridged 1 vol		5.	6
	Virginia Laws Abridged		8.
Conveyancing
	Ars Clericalis 1 vol		4.	6
	Compleat Conveyancer		5.
	Clerk’s Guide		5.
	Clerk & Scriveners Guide		8.
	Herne’s Law of Conveyances		2.
	Lawyer’s Library		3.	6
	West’s Symboleography		5.
Courts & Courtkeeping
	Attorneys Practise in C B		6.
	Attorney’s Practise in B R 2 vol		12.
	Coke’s Institutes 4^th Part		15.
RK	Crown Circuit Companion		6.
	History of the Chancery		2.	6
AR	Practise in Chancery 2 vol		7.
	Practick Part of the Law		6.
GI	Rules of Practise commonplaced		4.
	Practise of Chancery 1672		1.	6
AR	Harrison’s Chancery Practiser		6.
Crown
	Coke’s Institutes 3rd Part		15.
	Hale’s History of the Pleas of the Crown 2 vol/	2.	10.
	Hawkins Pleas of the Crown	1.	10.
	Hale’s Continuation of the Crown Laws		2.	6
	Sutton de Pace Regis		5.
Dictionaries
	Consell’s Interpreter		10.
	Jacobus’s Law Dictionary	1.	8.
	Law French Dictionary		6.
RI	Students Law Dictionary		5.
AR	Term’s de la Loy		5.
Entries
	Aston’s		3.
TA	Brown Lows’ Declarations		12.
AR	Bohun’s Declarations		6.
	Brown’s modus intrandi, 2 vol		12.
	Clift’s	1.	10.
	Coke’s	1.	1.
	Lilly’s	1.	5.
	Mallory’s Quarer Impedit		17.
	Placila generalia & specialia		3.
	Rastallo	1.	1.
	Robinson’s		10.
	Read’s Declarations		3.
	Vidiano		10.
	Thompson’s	1.
Justices of Peace
	Justicio vade mecum		2.
	Keble’s Assistant to Justices		5.
	Manual for Justices 1641		2.
Maxims
	Doctor & Student		3.	6
	Finch’s Law		4.
	Francis’s Maxims of Equity		8.
	Hale’s History & Analysis of the Laws		6.
	Hale’s Hereditary Descants		1.	6
	Hawks’s Grounds of the Laws of England		3.
	Perkins’s Laws		2.	6
	Treatise of Equity		8.	6
	Woods Institutes of the Laws of England	1.	5.
Miscellanies
	Booth’s Real Actions		8.
GI	Baron & ferne		6.
	Billinghurst of Bankrupts		1.	6
	Britton		5.
	Brown of fines & Recoveries		5.
	Coke’s Institutes. Comments on Littleton Part 2	3.
GI	Cane’s English Liberties		2.
GI	Curson’s Laws of Estates tail		4.	6
	Domat’s Civil Law 2 vol	2.	10.
	Dugdale’s Origine’s Judiciales	2.
	Duncomb’s Trials perpais		6.
	Ejectments, Law of		5.
GI	Errors, Law of		6.
GI	Everyman his own Lawyer		5.
	Evidence, Laws of		6.
GI	Jacoba’s Lex Mercatoria		5.
GI	Jus or Law of Masters & Servants		3.
	Landlord’s Laws		3.
GI	Law Quibbles		4.	6
	Laws of Liberty & Property		2.
	March’s Actions for Slander & Arbitrations		4.
	Molloy de jura maritimi & navali		7.
GI	Obligations Laws of		5.
	Sea Laws		12.
GI	Treatise of Trover & Conversion		2.
GI	Trespasses (Law of) Vi & armis		6.
	Virginia Laws Purvis’s		12.
	Virginia Laws by Parks 2 Vol	2.
	Uses & Trials (Law of)		6.
GI	Usury (Law of)		2.	6
	Freeholders Companion		5.
	Turnbull’s System of the Civil Law 2 vol		12.
	Jacobs’s Collection of Steads for commonplaces		1.	6
	Chronica Iuridicialia abridged		4.
	Naval Trade 2 vol.		10.
GI	Law & Lawyers laid open		2.	6
	Freeholders Companion		5.
	Law of Devises & Revocations		3.	6
	Piffendorf’s Law of Nature & Nations	1.	8.
	Views of Civil & Ecclesiastical Law		2.	6
	Study & Body of the Law		3.
	Treatise of Bills of Exchange		2.	6
Parliament
	Cases in Parliament		16.
	Hunt’s Postscript		4.
Readings
	Alleyne’s		9.
	Anderson’s	1.	15.
	Barnardiston’s	1.	1.
	Bentses & Dalison’s		10.
	Bridgman’s		18.
	Bulstrode’s	4.	4.
	Brownlow’s & Goldenborough’s		7.
	Carter’s		8.
	Carthero’s	1.	2.
	Cases in Chancery 3 P^ts	1.	10.
	Cases in B R & B C from 2^d W^m 12 Mod	1.	10.
	Cases in Law & Equity by Macclesfield 10 Mod	1.	4.
	Coke’s 11 Parts		15.
	12 & 13 Parts		7.
	Comberbach’s		17.
	Croke’s 3 vol	2.	12.	6
	Cary’s		3.
	Clayton’s		3.	6
	Davis’s		11.
	Dyer’s	1.	11.	6
	Farraday’s 7 Mod		9.
	FitzGibbons’s		14.
	Gilbert’s Rep^ts in Equity & Excheq^r		15.
	Godbolt’s	1.	1.
	Hardres’s	2.	10.
	Hetley’s		10.
	Hobart’s		16.
	Holt’s	1.	10.
	Hutton’s		13.
	Jenkins’s Centuries		16.
	Jones’s (D^r. W^m.)	2.	5.
	Jones’s (Tho^s.)		15.
	Keble’s 3 vol	1.	15.
	Keilway’s		14.
	Keylings		9.
	Lane’s		16.
	Latch’s		8.
	Leonard’s	4.	4.
	Loving’s 3 Parts 2 vol	2.
	Ley’s		7.
	Lilly’s		9.
	Littleton’s		11.
	Lutneyche’s 2 vol	4.	4.
	Modern Cases in Law & Equity 8 & 9 Mod	1.	4.
	Modern Reports 6 vol	5.	5.
	Moore’s		18.
	Marsh’s		3.
	Noy’s		16.
	Owens		16.
	Palmer’s		12.
	Plowden’s	2.	5.
	Pollersten’s	2.	2.
	Popham’s		14.
	Precedents in Chancery	1.	5.
	Raymond’s (D^r. Tho^s.)	2.	10.
	Reports in Chancery in Finch’s time		16.
	Rolles’ Reports	2.	10.
	Reports in Chancery 4 vol		15.
	Salkeld’s 3 vol	2.	16.
	Savile’s		6.
	Saunders’s	1.	7.	6
	Sherver’s 2 vol	2.
	Select Cases in Can S. in Ld. King’s time		8.
	Siderfin’s	2.
	Skinner’s	1.	10.
	Styles’s	1.	10.
	Talbot’s Cases in Equity		15.
	Tothill’s Transactions in Chancery		1.	6
	Vaughan’s	2.	10.
	Ventris’s	1.	15.
	Vernon’s 2 vol	2.	5.
	Wynch’s		16.
	William’s 2 vol	2.	16.
	Year Books 9 vol	3.	7.	6
	Yelverton’s		5.
	Zouch’s Cases in the Civil Law;		2.	6
	Cases in Chan & B R in Ld Hardwick’s time		12.
	Special & Select Law Cases 1641		6.
Sheriffs
	Treatise of Replevins		3.
Statutes
	Keble’s Statutes	2.	10.
	Statutes concerning Bankrupts		2.	6
Tables
	Index to the Reports		12.
	Repertorium Iuridicum	2.
Tithes & Laws of the Clergy
	Hughes’s Parson’s Law		1.	6
Wills Ex^rs &c
	Godolphin’s Orphan’s Legacy		12.
	Meriton’s Touchstone of Wills		1.	6
AR	Nelson’s Lex Testimentaria		7.
GI	Swinburne of last Wills		6.
	Wentworth’s Office of Executors		2.
Writs
AR	Bohun’s English Lawyer		5.
	Fitzherbert with Hale’s Notes		16.
	Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium		6.
	Registrum Brevium	1.	1.
Omitted
	Laws of Maryland	1.
	Statutes of Excise		1.	6
OTHER BOOKS
Arts & Sciences
	Alian’s Tacticks of War		8.
	Smith’s Distilling & Fermentation		5.
	Weston’s Treatise of Shorthand	1.	1.
	Weston’s Shorthand Copybook		4.
Classicks
GM	Greek Grammar		2.	6
GM	Greek Testament		3.	6
	Martial		2.	6
Dictionaries
	Colgrave’s French Dictionary		15.
	Salmon’s Family Dict.		6.
	Bailey’s English Diet		7.
GM	Schrevelii Lexicon		7.	6
	Echard’s Gazetteer’s Interpreter		3.	6
	Cole’s English Dictionary		2.	6
Divinity
	Tillotson’s Sermons 3 vol	2.	10.
	Bibles trua	1.	10.
	Leigh of Religion & Learning		10.
	Stillingfleck’s Origines Sacra	1.
	Life of King David		6.
	Newton on Daniel		3.
	The Sum of Christian Religion		10.
	Weeks Preparation		2.	6
	Whole Duty of Man		2.	6
	The Sacrament explained		2.
	The Country Parson’s Advice		1.	6
	Addy’s Shorthand Bible		10.
	Atterbury Lewis’s Sermons 2 vol		10.	6
	Atterbury Francis’s Sermons 4 vol	1.	2.
	South’s Sermons 6 vol	1.	12.	6
AS	Warburton’s divine Legation of Moses 2 vol		16.	6
	Revelation examin’d with Candour 2 vol		9.	6
	Scott’s Christian Life	1.
History
	Universal History 4 vol	9.	11.	6
	Rushworth’s Collections 8 vol	8.	16.
	Rapin’s History of England 2 vol	2.	10.
	Keating’s History of Ireland	1.	1.
	Burnet’s History of his own Times 2 vol	2.	10.
	Purchas’s Pilgrimage	1.
	Cop’s History of Ireland 2 vol	2.	10.
	History of Europe 13 vol at 5/	3.	5.
	Historical Register 26 vol at 3/	3.	18.
	Antiquitatum variarum Auctores		2.	6
	History of the Turks 4^th vol		4.	6
	Jeffery of Monmouth		4.
	Burnet’s History 3 vol		9.
	Bladen’s Caesar’s Commentaries		4.	6
	History of the Fifth General Council		12.
	Machiavel’s History of Florence		4.
	Roman History Echard’s 5^th vol		4.
	Lehontan’s Voyages 2^d vol		4.
	Description of the 17 Provinces		2.
	The English Acquisitions in Guinea &c.		2.
	Burnet’s Travels		1.	6
	Heylyn’s Help to English History		3.	6
	History of Spain		1.	6
	Catholick History		2.
	History of Virginia		2.	6
	DuStalde’s History of China 4 vol	1.
Husbandry & Gardening
	Quintinye’s Gardener	1.
	Woodbridge of Agriculture		8.
	Evelyn’s Sylvia		12.
	Houghton’s Husbandry 4 vol	1.	2.
	Bradley’s Husbandry 3 vol		15.
	Gardening 2 vol		6.
	new Improvements		6.
	ancient husbandry		4.
	practical Discourses		8.
	Farmer’s Director		2.	6
	Ladies Director		2.	6
	Hop Garden		1.	6
	Dictionarium Rusticum		6.
CD	Monarchy of the Bees		1.	6
	A Discourse of Sallets		1.
	Pocket Farrier		1.
	Miscellanies of the Dublin Society		5.
GM	Spectator 8 vol	1.
GM	Tatler 4 vol		10.
GM	Addison’s Works 4 vol		10.
GM	Guardian 2 vol		5.
	Pope’s Letters 2 vol		5.
	Present State of Great Britain		6.
	Persian Letters 2 vol		5.
	Sedley’s Works 1 vol		5.
	Carson’s Lucubrations		2.
	Acc^t of Society for Reformation of Manners		2.	6
	Aristarchus Anti Bentlianus		2.
	Dissertation on the Thebaan Legion		2.	6
	Secret History of Whitehall		2.
	The Western Martyrology		2.	6
GM	Memoria Technica		2.	6
	Erasmus’s Praise of Folly		2.	6
	Turkish Spy 5 & 6 vol		4.
	Tom Brown’s Letters from the Dead to the Living		2.	6
	The Intelligencer		2.	6
	Rone’s Lives		4.
	The Dublin Almanack		1.
	Maxims & Reflections on Plays		2.
	Report about Silver Coins		1.	6
	Essay for Amendment of them		2.
	Feltham’s Resolves		4.
	The Minister of State		6.
	Treatise of Honour		5.
	Lyropadia		6.
	Hutchinson on Virtue		4.
	T. Scott on the Passions		2.
	Lansdowne’s Works 3 vol		7.	6
	Works of the Learned 13 vol	4.	11.
	Boyle’s Adventures		3.
	Leisure Hours Amusement		3.
News & Politicks
	London Magazine 11 vol	3.	17.
	Gentlemen’s Magazine 4 vol	1.	6.
	The Britton		2.	6
	Common Sense 2 vol		6.
	The Freeholder		2.	6
	The Craftsman 6 vol		18.
	Pues Occurrences		5.
	The True Britton 2 vol		12.
Philosophy & Mathematicks
	Rarities of Gresham Colledge			16.
	Bacon’s natural History		10.
	Physiologia		12.
GF	Derham’s Physico Theology		5.
	Astro Theology		4.
	Sturmy’s Mariners Magazine		14.
	Gordon’s Cosmography		5.
	Geography		5.
	Ozanam’s Mathematical Recreations		5.
	Atkinson’s Epitome of Navigation		5.
	General Steads for natural History		1.	6
	Seaman’s Calendar
RI	Newton’s Opticks		6.
	Keill’s Astronomy		6.
	Baker’s Microscope		5.	6
	Mathew’s Invenitis 3 vol		15.
Physick & Surgery
JM	Salmon’s Herbal 2 vol	2.	12.
	JM Dispensatory		6.
	JM Synopsis Medicina		8.
	JM Ars Chirurgica		8.
	JM Medicina Practica		6.
JM	Beerhaave’s Method of the dying Physic		4.
JM	Sydehamii Opuscula		4.
JM	Wiseman’s Surgery 2 vol		10.
JM	Sanctorius’s Aphorisms		5.
	Quiney’s Dispensatory		6.	6
JM	Strother on Sickness & Health		3.	6
JM	on Causes & Cures		2.	6
JM	Criticon Febrium		2.	6
	Shaw’s Practises of Physick 2 vol		10.
	Arbuthnot of Aliment		3.	6
JM	London Dispensatory		3.	6
AS	Andrey on Worms		4.
JM	Friends Emmencologia		3.
JM	Pitcarn’s Dissertationes		6.
JM	Friends’ Praelectioned Chymica		2.	6
AS	Short’s Dissertation on Coffee & Tea		2.	6
JM	Robinson Consumptions		5.	6
JM	Drake’s Anatomy 2 vol		10.
JM	History of Physic 2 vol		8.
JM	Mead on Poysons		4.
Plays & Poetry
	Killigrew’s Plays		10.
	Ignoramus Latin & English		3.	6
	Shakespears Plays 8 vol	1.	5.
	Ben Johnsons Works		10.
	Wycherley’s Plays		5.
	Blackmore’s Elize		8.
	DuBartas’s Works		12.
	Prior’s Works		3.
	Pope’s Works 9 vol	1.	5.
GM	Homers Iliad 6 vol		15.
	Homers Odyssey 5 vol		12.	6
	Savage’s Poems		2.	6
GM	Thomsons Seasons		2.	6
	Rochesters Poems 2^d vol		3.
	Caroley’s Works 3 vol		9.
	Lauderdale’s Virgil 2 vol		5.
	Theocritus		1.	6
	Broome’s Poems		3.	6
	Ovid’s Art of Love		3.
	Creech’s Lucretius 2 vol		8.
	Barbers Poems		5.
	Wallace		2.
	Sandys’ Paraphrase on the divine Poems		6.
Trade
	Roberts’s Map of Commerce;	1.
	Davenant on Trade & Plantations 2 vol		8.
Omitted
GB	Annesley’s Trial		5.	6
	Speeches at Atterbury’s Trial		5.
	Ladies Physical Directory		2.	6
	Calvins Sermons;		2.	6
	Nunnery Tales		4.
	Wingate’s Arithmetick		4.
	Lloyd’s Consent of time		7.	6
	Memoirs of secret Service		2.	6
	Views of France		2.
	Account of the Treaty of Uxbridge		2.	6
	May’s Cookery		3.
	The Triumphs of Peace		1.	6
	S^r. Walter Raleigh of a War with Spain		2.	6
	The Romish Horseleech		2.	6
	Conjectura Cabbalistica		2.
	Miscellanies by Swift & Pope 4 vol		3.
	The Syren		4.
	The Musical Miscellany 6 vol		18.

[The following are evidently subsequent additions to the library, which seems thus far to have been cataloged before 1746. The following books listed are referred to the accounts on which they were purchased.]