DescriptionEdward Coke, The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England (1st ed, 1644, title page) - 20131123.jpg
English: Title page of Edward Coke (1644) The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminall Causes (1st ed.), London: Printed by M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee and D[aniel] Pakeman OCLC: 520592.
The text on the title page is as follows:
"THE / THIRD PART / OF THE / INSTITUTES / Of the Laws of England: / CONCERNING / High Treaſon, and other / Pleas of the Crown, and / Criminall cauſes
"ECCLES. 8.11. / Quia non profertur cito contra ma- / los ſententia, abſque timore ullo / filii hominum perpetrant mala. / Inertis eſt neſcire quot ſibi liceat. [Ecclesiastes 8:11 / When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong. (Translation from the New International Version of the Bible.) / It is lazy not to know what one is permitted.]
"Authore Edw. Coke Milite, I.C. / Hac ego grandavus poſui tibi, candide Lector. [Author Edward Coke Knight, I.C. (Iuris Consultus – Lawyer) / Hence I, who am very old, have put this before thee, innocent reader.]
"MDCXLIV.
"Printed at London by M. Fleſher, / for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman."
On the top right-hand corner of the title page, the words "Bibliotheca colbertina" have been handwritten in ink, indicating that this book was originally from the private library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683), who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.
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