Appendix VIII

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF JOSIAH QUINCY JUNR. ESQ: DECEAS’D

editor’s note

Daniel R. Coquillette

As M. H. Hoeflich has persuasively demonstrated, catalogues of law libraries are valuable tools in understanding “the intellectual context of American law.” See M. H. Hoeflich, “Auctions and the Distribution of Law Books in Antebellum America,” 113 Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, 2005), 160. This includes auction and estate catalogues, such as this one, and also library catalogues. See, for example, The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library (eds. W. H. Bond, H. Amory, Boston, 1996); Thomas Jefferson’s Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order (eds. J. Gilreath, D. C. Wilson, Washington, 1989); Catalogue of Books in the Massachusetts Historical Library: An annotated edition of the 1796 library catalogue of the Massachusetts Historical Society (eds. J. D. Cushing, M. E. Cogswell, M. E. Fabiszewski, E. W. Hanson, B. M. Lawson, Boston, 1996), and The Library of William Byrd of Westover (ed. K. J. Hayes, Madison, 1997). Both Quincy and Jefferson admired Francis Bacon, and Jefferson’s library was catalogued by a scheme inspired by Bacon’s categories of knowledge in The Advancement of Learning (London, 1605). See Thomas Jefferson’s Library, supra, 2. With many thanks to my talented research assistants, and with particular thanks to Patricia Tarabelsi and Charles Riordan, Editorial Assistants to the Monan Chair.

This catalogue was clearly created soon after Quincy’s tragic death on April 26, 1775. The library was very valuable, with the assessed total being £140. The reference to books taken from the estate by “Mrs. Quincy” and “Mr. Quincy” almost certainly refer to his widow, Abigail, and his father, Colonel Josiah Quincy, who would outlive his son by nine years. Abigail survived her husband by twenty-two years. Both were buried near Quincy, his wife beside him in the tomb and his father in a separate vault at the base of the mound, in tribute to his son. See Neil L. York, “A Life Cut Short,” Quincy Papers, vol. 1, 44–46, with an illustration of the tomb in Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, id., 222.

The Catalogue is now at the Massachusetts Historical Society, P437, Reel 4, QP53. Reproduced by Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

In addition to the transcription of the original catalogue, there is an alphabetized list painstakingly prepared by Patricia Tarabelsi, and a wonderful additional bibliographical guide prepared by Mark G. Sullivan, Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law, Boston College Law Library, with the able assistance of Meredith Duval, Boston College Law School, 2009. Throughout these volumes I have acknowledged Mark Sullivan’s extraordinary contributions, and this Guide, with Meredith Duval’s assistance, is another tour de force.

Catalogue of Books Belonging tothe Estate of Josiah Quincy Junr. Esq: Deceas’d

(Massachusetts Historical Society P347, Reel 4, QP53)
Courtesy, Massachusetts Historical Society

Editor’s additions in brackets

Belong: to WQ of Braintree Kapin’s History of Eng:ld 2 Vol

[“WQ” for “Wilkes Quincy,” one of Quincy’s nicknames? See Quincy Papers, vol. 1, 20–21.]

1. Laws of Barbados
1. 1 [each entry is listed as “1” unless otherwise indicated]
2. Colliers Dictionary
3. Scapulas Dictionary
4. Cunningham’s Dictionary
1. 2 [Where a number appears to the right, it indicates the number of volumes of a multi-volume work. Here there are “2.”]
5. Winch’s Entries
6. Brissionius
7. Ayliffe’s Civil Laws
8. Ditto Canon Laws
9. Domat’s Civil Law
10. Plowdens Reports
11. Woods Civil Law
12. Laws of Virginia
13. Lex Mercatoria a Collection of all Lex Laws [Beawes?]
14. Connely [?] Commentarys
15. Rastell [Termes de la Ley]
16. Cases in Equity Abrig’d
17. Calvins Responia
18. Tillotsons Works 3
19. Josephus
Carr:d Over 23 Vol. Bro:t Over 23 Vol. } [Cumulative Volumes, i.e., 23 volumes this point.]
20. Pliny’s History
21. Hobbes’s Thucydides
22. Kebles Reports 2
23. Hawkin Pleas of (the) Crown
24. Lilly’s Entries
25. Lilly’s Abridgment 2
26. Chancery Cases
27. Brownlows Entries
28. Milton’s Po[Poetic?] Works
29. Modern Entries [Mallory]
30. Swinburne of Wills
31. Salkeld [Reports] 3
32. Pufendorfs Law of Nature & Nations
33. Spelmans Concilia
34. [Coke] A Commenta: upon Littleton
35. Rushworths Collections 2
36. Carkases Book of Rates
37. Vidians Entries
38. Bractis: Seriven: Modern Conveyances
Carr:d Forw:d 48 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 48 Vol.
39. Sir Tho:s Raymond Reports
40. Wilsons Reports
41. Bulstrod Reports
42. [Bacon] Lord Bacons Works 4
43. Locke 3
44. Liber Placitande
45. Pleading on [the] Charter of London
46. Hardwicks Cases
47. Modern Cases
48. Cases in Chancery
49. Select [cases in Chancery] D.o
50. Hansards Entries
51. Justins Hist:ry
52. Massachus: Charter
53. Kelyng [Pleas of the Crown]
54. Thesaurus Brevision
55. Journal of Massachusets [spelling original] Bay 1769
56. Rhode Island Laws
57. Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow
Carr:d Over 72 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Over 72 Vol.
58. Moors Law of Uses
59. Bartall’s Abridgm:t of Statutes
60. [Coke] Second Institute
61. Sidney in Government with his Letters & Trials
62. Hobarts Reports
63. Ley’s Reports
64. Buttons Abridg:t of [?] Statutes
65. Bodins Laws
66. Martins Virgil
67. Blackstone’s Commentaries
68. Sullivan’s Lectures on Law
69. Barrington on [the] State
70. Gordons Sallust
71. Vattels Law of Nations
72. Dutch & English Dictionary
73. Ainsworths Dictionary
74. Latin D. [Dictionary]
75. Boyers’s French & English D.
Carr:d Forw:d 94 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 94 Vol.
76. Quinctilian Burmannum 2
77. Harangues in French
78. Simpson’s Parish Officer
79. Burrow Settlement [cases]
80. Crooks [Croke’s] Reports 3
81. Cokes D [Digest]
82. [Welwood] Sea Laws
83. [Thomasius] Fundamenta Juris Naturae
84. [Schetter] Italy in its Original
85. Corberon
86. Caussina de Eloquentia
87. Rivetus’s Commentaries
88. Godolph: Orphans Legacy
89. Pownall’s Polity
90. Burn & Ecclesi.a Law [Burns]
91. Geometry in French
92. De Enerogatisia
Carr:d Over 123 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Over 123 Vol.
93. Sayer’s Law of Damages
94. Braetick: part of Law
95. Lexicon
96. Law of Attornies & Solicitors
97. Spec: Law Cases
98. Blacks [Blackstone’s] Law Tracts 2
99. British Customs
100. Constitution of England
101. DiBriee’s Works
102. Curzon’s Office of an Executor
103. Laws of Executors
104. Instructor Clericals [Instructio Clericalis]
105. Kennets Antiquities
106. Dunsten’s Horace
107. Nelsons Lex Testament [aria]
108. Dagg [Dagge] on Crim:l Law
109. Juvenal
110. Burlamaq’s [Burlamaquis] Politic: Law
111. Decision upon the Boor’s Laws
Carr:d Forw:d 149 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 149 Vol.
112. Montesquieu Spirit of Laws
113. [Holt] L:d Holt’s Life
114. Law of Evidence
115. Belyl’s Rights of [the] Commons of Engl:d
116. [Hale] L:d Hale’s Pleas of [the] Crown
117. Caesar’s Government
118. Virgil
119. Horace
120. Wood’s History of Massachusets [spelling original] 3
121. Farmer a Narrative of [the] [?]roced against T. Wilkes Esq. 3
122. Treatises on Libels
123. Thelogia Dogmatica et Morales 10
124. Ovid’s Fastorum Liber
125. Defense of [the] New Engl:d Charter
126. Present state of Great Britain
127. Pris: Parliament
128. Political Treatises
129. American Episcopal Disputes
130. Poor Acts
Carr:d Over 179 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Over 179 Vol.
131. West’s Presdents [Symboleography]
132. Acherley’s free Parliament
133. Hayes’s Exchanges
134. Nelson’s Rights of [the] Clergy
135. Opuscula Philosophia
136. Florus
137. Franks Law of Exchange
138. Excellency [the] Breh: of [the] Laws of England
139. Tully’s Oratories 2
140. Ditto d. in Unum Delphini
141. Tully’s Epistles
142. Ditto D.
143. Ditto Offices
144. Ditto Select Oratories
145. Homer
146. Womans Lawyer
147. Law of Devises
Carr:d Forw:d 198 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 198 Vol.
148. Calvin on the Prophets
149. Silburns Trial
150. Gassendus
151. Cort [Court?] Reports
152. Rights of [the] Crown
153. Attorney’s Guide 2
154. Ssocrates [spelling original]
155. Tacitus
156. [Rastell] Termes de ley [de la Ley]
157. Epictetus
158. Natura Brevium [Fitzherbert’s New Natura Brevium?]
159. [Aler, P.] Gradus ad Parnassum
160. Present state of England
161. Fortiocuid [Fortescue’s] Hengham with Notes
162. Office of L:d Chancellor
163. Distin: Philosoph:a
164. Justin’s History
165. Davis on Customs
Carr:d Over 217 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Over 217 Vol.
166. Lucretius
167. Tonnage & Boundage
168. Logick
169. D. [Ditto?]
170. Sheppard’s Actions for Slander
171. Elogia
172. [Johnson, J.] Clergy-man’s Vade Meeum
173. Godolphia [Godolphin] Admiral Jurisdiction
174. Chronica Juridicia [Juridicialia]
175. Braxis Utriusque Banii
176. Kendal’s Examen
177. Horace in French 2
178. Milton’s Defense of the People
179. Christi: theolo.
180. Latin Testament
181. Clements
182. Milton against K.Charles
183. Latin Gram:
184. Greek Testament
Carr:d Forw:d 237 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 237 Vol.
185. Latin Testament 2
186. Nomenclature
187. D.o [Ditto?]
188. Corderius
189. Clark’s Introduction
190. Seotani Exam: juridicum
191. Advice to Juries
192. Galateus
193. Rhetorick
194. Claytons Topicks of [the] Law
195. Maeick
196. Latin Bible
197. Liturgia Ceclesia
198. [?] view of [the] Admiral Jurisdic: [Richard Zouche, View of the Admiralty Jurisdiction]
199. Briers Poems
200. Wallers Poems
201. The Art of Speaking
202. Poems on sev: occations [spelling original] by W. Whitehead
256 Vol. [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Over 256 Vol.
203. [Shakespeare] The Beauties of Shakespear [spelling original] 2
204. [Oratory] An essay on Oratory
205. [Religious] A Treatise concern:g Religious Affections
206. [Robertson] Dr. Robertson’s History of Charles K. 3
207. Plutarchs Lives 6
208. Political Disquisitions 3
209. Harris’s Life of Cromwell
210. [Robertson] Dr. Robertsons Hist:ry of Scotland
211. [Shakespeare] Coriolanus a Tragedy
212. Family Instructor 2
213. Voltare’s Letters [spelling original] 2
214. Butler’s Works
215. The Gentleman’s Library
216. Thomsons Seasons
217. North Briton 3
218. [Newton] View of S:r L:d Newtons Philosophy
219. Political Essays
220. Humes Workes
221. Excellencie of a Free State
222. Bressuld on Erudition 3
293 [Vols.] [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 293 [Vols.]
223. Lords Protests 2
224. Philosophical Dictionary
225. Philosophy of History
226. [Harbin] English Constitution
227. Forsters Travels
228. [D. Aubigné] Life of D. Aubigné
229. Laugi[Laugier?] Hist:y of [the] Peace
230. Macaulays History 5
231. Gordons Tacitus 4
232. *Beccas [Beccaria] on Crimes & Punishment
233. Montagu’s Antunt Republick
234. System of Oratory 2
235. Philoso: Princip.l of Religion
236. Buchanans History
237. Art of Thinking 2
238. Antiquit.s of S:t Peters
239. [Charlevoix] Charlevain Voyage to America 2
240. Boswells Corsica
241. Thomsons Liasons
321 [Vols.] [Cumulative Volumes]

Bro:t Forw:d 321 [Vols.]
242. [Bland] Treatise on Milit.Discipline
243. State of Republick of Letters 3
244. No: Gen: [the] yard:s Recreation [?]
245. Extent of [the] Mosaick History
246. [Hunter, T.] Character of L:d Bollingbroke
247. Ferguson’s Civil Society
248. Dispensary a Poem
249. State of Great Britain
250. Satyrs upon [the] Jesuits
251. Collins ground & Reasons
252. Reflex: Morales
253. Letters on Patriotism
254. Hughes’s Letters 2
255. Duke of Buckingham’s Works
256. Cicero’s Thoughts
257. Ovids Metamorphoses
258. Travels through Turkey
259. Free Holder
260. The Politi Arts
261. Revolutions de Suide
262. Broker
350 [Vols.] [Cumulative Volumes]

350 [Vols.]
263. Hudibras
264. Art of Playing
265. Virgil 2
266. [Ballingbroke] Life of Ballingbroke
267. Ballingbroke to Windham
268. Debates in [the] H: of Commons
269. [Hollis, T.] True Sentiments of America
270. Fables for [the] Female Sex
271. Whole Duty of Man
272. Art of Providence
273. Taylor’s Doc.t of Attonement
274. Edward on Freedom of Will
275. Butlers Sermons
276. Mayhew’s Sermons 2
277. D.o d.o [Ditto]
278. Osterwald on [the] new Testament
279. Mayhew’s Serm.
280. [Sadler] Rights of [the] Kingdom
281. Gregorious Tracts [Gregorius, Decretales?]
282. Reasons concern:g Presling[?] Government
373 [Vols.] [Cumulative Volumes]

373 [Vols.]
283. Mareus Antonius
284. An[glican] Bishops
285. Marriners New Kallender
286. Judgment of Nations concern:g Kings
287. Poems
288. New Engl:d Tears
289. Satyrs
290. Voltaire’s Letters
291. Poems
292. Letters on Patriotism
293. Introduc: to Geography
294. Letters of Madam de Maintenon
295. Marvell’s Rehersal
296. Independ.d Whig
297. Gordons Tracts
298. D.o d. [Ditto]
299. Swifts Works
300. Mandeville
301. History of Woman of Quality
302. Rehearsal
303. Catesby’s Letters
304. Cottons Works
412 [Vols.] [Cumulative Volumes]

412 [Vols.]
305. Pillars of Priestcraft
306. [Rollin] Method of Teach:g Belles Letters
307. Beaux Stratagem
308. Memory of Duke of Buckingham
309. Olwary’s Plays
310. Ovid’s Art of Love
311. Thoughts on Christianity
312. Popes Works
313. Venus Unmasked
314. Spenser’s Works
315. [Swift] Life of Swift
316. Solomons Proverbs
317. Address to Phanaticks
318. [Grotius] Hugogrotius’s [Hugo Grotius’] Discourse
319. Poems on Several Occasions
320. Cookmans Tully
321. Tell Tale
322. [Cromwell] Life of Oliver Cromwell
323. Milton’s Works 4
324. Taylor on Original Sin
325. [Homer] Life of Homer
326. Mathmatitions Guide
327. Estimate of [the] manners of [the] times
442 [Vols.] [Cumulative Volumes]

442 [Vols.]
328. Art of Health by Armstrong
329. Henry Flynts Works
330. Nites of Original Sin
331. The Humourist
332. North Briton
333. Sidney on Poetry
334. Letters on Public Liberty 2
335. Junius’s Letters 2
336. Political Debates
337. & 338. *Traps Virgil Adminis:t British Colonies 4 [Two books?]
338. (see above)
339. Churchill’s Poems 2

The above Books, with a number of Pamphlets & several Volumes of Little Amount	£155
The bo[oks] taken out by M.rs. Quincy73 to be deducted from the above sum	-£15
	140

x 340. *Kennicks History Engl.d 2 vol:
- 341. Leland Demostenes [Demosthenes}
x 342. [Littleton] L:d Littletons Henry 2.d 6
x 343. Harris’s James 1st
- 470 [Vols.] [Total Volumes]
Books mark’d x are ye books Mr. Quincy has taken.74
[Also including] Inventory of Furniture & Belong: [to the] above Estate
[Also including] A List of Bonds & Notes due to the Estate of the late Josiah Quincy jun: Esq.

Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Estate of Josiah Quincy Jr.

Arranged in alphabetical order by Patricia Tarabelsi

(Massachusetts Historical Society P347, Reel 4, QP53)

Courtesy, Massachusetts Historical Society

(Note: Addition’s in brackets are editor’s-inserted for clarity)

Numbers in brackets correspond to numbers on estate list

Acherley’s free Parliament [132]
Address to Phanaticks [317]
Adminis:t British Colonies [338]
Advice to Juries [191]
Ainsworths Dictionary [73]
[Aler, P.] Gradus ad Parnassum [159]
American Episcopal Disputes [129]
An[glican] Bishops [284]
Antiquit.s of S:t Peters [238]
Art of Health by Armstrong [328]
Art of Playing [264]
Art of Providence [272]
Art of Speaking [201]
Art of Thinking [237]
Attorney’s Guide [153]
Ayliffe’s Civil Laws [7]
Ayliffe’s Canon Laws [8]
[Bacon] Lord Bacons Works [42]
Ballingbroke to Windham [267]
[Ballingbroke] Life of Ballingbroke [266]
Barrington on [the] State [69]
Bartall’s Abridgm:t of Statutes [59]
[Beccaria] Beccas on Crimes & Punishment [232]
Beaux Stratagem [307]
Belyl’s Rights of [the] Commons of Engl:d [115]
Blacks[tone’s] Law Tracts [98]
Blackstone’s Commentaries [67]
Bodins Laws [65]
Boswells Corsica [240]
Boyers’s French & English D. [75]
Bractis: Seriven: Modern Conveyances [38]
Braetick: part of Law [94]
Braxis Utriusque Banii [175]
Bressuld on Erudition [222]
Briers Poems [199]
Brissionius [6]
British Customs [99]
Broker [262]
Brownlows Entries [27]
Buchanans History [236]
[Buckingham] Duke of Buckingham’s Works [255]
Bulstrod Reports [41]
Burlamaq’s [Burlamaqui’s] Politic: Law [110]
Burn & Ecclesi.a Law [Burns] [90]
Burrow Settlement [cases] [79]
Butler’s Works [214]
Butlers Sermons [275]
Buttons Abridg:t of [all] Statutes [64]
Caesar’s Government [117]
Calvin on the Prophets [148]
Calvins Responia [17]
Carkases Book of Rates [36]
Cases in Chancery [48]
Cases in Equity Abrig’d [16]
Catesby’s Letters [303]
Caussina de Eloquentia [86]
Chancery Cases [26]
Character of L:d Bollingbroke [246]
[Charlevoix] Charlevain Voyage to America [239]
Christi: theolo. [179]
Chronica Juridicia [174]
Churchill’s Poems [339]
Cicero’s Thoughts [256]
Clark’s Introduction [189]
Claytons Topicks of [the] Law [194]
Clements [181]
Clergy-man’s Vade Meeum [172]
[Coke] A Commenta: upon Littleton [34]
[Coke] Cokes D. [Digest] [81]
Colliers Dictionary [2]
Collins ground & Reasons [251]
Connely [?] Commentarys [14]
Constitution of England [100]
Cookmans Tully [320]
Corberon [85]
Corderius [188]
Cort [court?] Reports [151]
Cottons Works [304]
[Cromwell] Life of Oliver Cromwell [322]
Crooks [Croke’s] Reports [80]
Cunningham’s Dictionary [4]
Curzon’s Office of an Executor [102]
Dagg [Dagge] on Crim:l Law [108]
[D. Aubigne] Life of D. Aubigne [228]
Davis on Customs [165]
De Enerogatisia [92]
Debates in [the] H: of Commons [268]
Decision upon the Boor’s [Boers’?] Laws [111]
Defense of [the] New Engl:d Charter [125]
Demostenes [Demosthenes] [341]
DiBriee’s Works [101]
Dispensary a Poem [248]
Distin: Philosoph:a [163]
Domat’s Civil Law [9]
Dunsten’s Horace [106]
Dutch & English Dictionary [72]
Edward on Freedom of Will [274]
Elogia [171]
English Constitution [226]
Epictetus [157]
Estimate of [the] manners of [the] times [327]
Excellencie of a Free State [221]
Excellency [the] Breh: of [the] Laws of England [138]
Extent of [the] Mosaick History [245]
Fables for [the] Female Sex [270]
Family Instructor [212]
Farmer a Narrative of [the] [?]roced against T. Wilkes Esq. [121]
Ferguson’s Civil Society [247]
[Fitzherbert’s] Natura Brevium [158]
Florus [136]
Forsters Travels [227]
Fortiocuid [Fortescue’s] Hengham with Notes [161]
Franks Law of Exchange [137]
Free Holder [259]
Fundamenta Juris Naturae [83]
Galateus [192]
Gassendus [150]
Geometry in French [91]
Gentleman’s Library [215]
Godolph: Orphans Legacy [88]
Godolphia [Godolphin] Admiral Jurisdiction [173]
Gordons Sallust [70]
Gordons Tacitus [231]
Gordons Tracts [297]
Gordons Tracts [298]
Gradus ad Parnassum [159]
Greek Testament [184]
Gregorious [Gregorius] Tracts [281]
[Grotius] Hugogrotius’s [Hugo Grotius’] Discourse [318]
[Hale] L:d Hale’s Pleas of [the] Crown [116]
Hansards Entries [50]
Harangues in French [77]
[Harbin] English Constitution [226]
Hardwicks Cases [46]
Harris’s James 1st [343]
Harris’s Life of Cromwell [209]
Hawkin Pleas of (the) Crown [23]
Hayes’s Exchanges [133]
Henry Flynts Works [329]
History of Woman of Quality [301]
Hobarts Reports [62]
Hobbes’s Thucydides [21]
[Hollis, T.] True Sentiments of America [269]
[Holt] L:d Holt’s Life [113]
Homer [145]
[Homer] Life of Homer [325]
Horace [119]
Horace in French [177]
Hudibras [263]
Humourist, The [Thomas, Gordon] [331]
Hughes’s Letters [254]
Humes Workes [220]
[Hunter, T.] Character of L:d Bollingbroke [246]
Independ.d Whig [296]
Instructor Clericals [Instructio Clericalis] [104]
Introduc: to Geography [293]
Italy in its Original [84]
[Johnson, J.] Clergy-man’s Vade Mecum
Josephus [19]
Journal of Massachusets [spelling original] Bay 1769 [55]
Judgment of Nations concern:g Kings [286]
Junius’s Letters [335]
Justin’s History [164]
Justins Hist:ry [51]
Juvenal [109]
Kebles Reports [22]
Kelyng [Pleas of the Crown] [53]
Kendal’s Examen [176]
Kennets Antiquities [105]
Kennicks History Engl.d 2 vol: * [340]
Latin Bible [196]
Latin D[ictionary] [74]
Latin Gram: [183]
Latin Testament [180]
Latin Testament [185]
[Laugier?] Hist:y of [the] Peace [229]
Law of Attornies & Solicitors [96]
Law of Devises [147]
Law of Evidence [114]
Laws of Barbados [1]
Laws of Executors [103]
Laws of Virginia [12]
Leland Demostenes [Demosthenes] [341]
Letters of Madam de Maintenon [294]
Letters on Patriotism [253]
Letters on Patriotism [292]
Letters on Public Liberty [334]
Lex Mercatoria a Collection of all Lex Laws [Beawes?] [13]
Lexicon [95]
Ley’s Reports [63]
Liber Placitande [44]
Lilly’s Abridgment [25]
Lilly’s Entries [24]
[Littleton] L:d Littletons Henry 2.d [342]
Liturgia Ceclesia [197]
Locke [43]
Logick [168]
Logick [169]
Lords Protests [223]
Lucretius [166]
Macaulays History [230]
Maeick [195]
[Maintenon, Madame de] Letters [294]
[Mallory] Modern Entries [29]
Mandeville [300]
Mareus Antonius [283]
Marriners New Kallender [285]
Martins Virgil [66]
Marvell’s Rehersal [295]
Massachus: Charter [52]
Mathmatitions Guide [326]
Mayhew’s Serm. [279]
Mayhew’s Sermons [276]
Mayhew’s Sermons [277]
Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow [57]
Memory of Duke of Buckingham [308]
Method of Teach:g Belles Letters [306]
Milton against K.Charles [182]
Milton’s Defense of the People [178]
Milton’s Po [Poetic?] Works [28]
Milton’s Works [323]
Modern Cases [47]
Modern Entries [Mallory] [29]
Montagu’s Antunt Republick [233]
[Montesquieu] Spirit of Laws [112]
Moors Law of Uses [58]
Natura Brevium [Fitzherbert’s New Natura Brevium?] [158]
Nelson’s Rights of [the] Clergy [134]
Nelsons Lex Testament [aria] [107]
New Engl:d Tears [288]
[Newton] View of S:r L:d Newtons Philosophy [218]
Nites of Original Sin [330]
No: Gen: [the] yard:s Recreation [244]
Nomenclature [186]
Nomenclature [187]
North Briton [217]
North Briton [332]
Office of L:d Chancellor [162]
Olwary’s Plays [309]
Opuscula Philosophia [135]
[Oratory] An essay on Oratory [204]
Osterwald on [the] new Testament [278]
Ovid’s Art of Love [310]
Ovid’s Fastorum Liber [124]
Ovids Metamorphoses [257]
Philoso: Princip.l of Religion [235]
Philosophical Dictionary [224]
Philosophy of History [225]
Pillars of Priestcraft [305]
Pleading on [the] Charter of London [45]
Pliny’s History [20]
Plowdens Reports [10]
Plutarchs Lives [207]
Poems [287]
Poems [291]
Poems on sev: occations [spelling original] by W. Whitehead [202]
Poems on Several Occasions [319]
Political Debates [336]
Political Disquisitions [208]
Political Essays [219]
Political Treatises [128]
Poor Acts [130]
Popes Works [312]
Pownall’s Polity [89]
Present state of England [160]
Present state of Great Britain [126]
Pris: Parliament [127]
Pufendorfs Law of Nature & Nations [32]
Quinctilian [Quintilian] Burmannum [76]
Rastell [Termes de la Ley] [15]
[Rastell] Termes de ley [156]
[Raymond] Sir Tho:s Raymond Reports [39]
Reasons concern:g Presling[?] Government [282]
Reflex: Morales [252]
Rehearsal [302]
[Religious] A Treatise concern:g Religious Affections [205]
Revolutions de Suide [261]
Rhetorick [193]
Rhode Island Laws [56]
[Ridley, Thomas] View of the Admiral Jurisdic [198]
Rights of [the] Crown [152]
Rights of [the] Kingdom [280]
Rivetus’s Commentaries [87]
[Robertson] D.c Robertson’s History of Charles K. [206]
[Robertson] D.c Robertsons Hist:ry of Scotland [210]
[Rollin] Method of Teach:g Belle Letters [306]
Rushworths Collections [35]
[Sadler] Rights of [the] Kingdom [280]
Salkeld [Reports] [31]
Satyrs [289]
Satyrs upon [the] Jesuits [250]
Sayer’s Law of Damages [93]
Scapulas Dictionary [3]
[Schetter] Italy in its Original [84]
[Schotanus] Seotani Exam: juridicum [190]
Sea Laws [Welwood] [82]
Select [Cases in Chancery] D.o [49]
[Shakespeare] The Beauties of Shakespear [spelling original] [203]
[Shakespeare] Coriolanus a Tragedy [211]
Sheppard’s Actions for Slander [170]
Sidney in Government with his Letters & Trials [61]
Sidney on Poetry [333]
Silburns Trial [149]
Simpson’s Parish Officer [78]
Solomons Proverbs [316]
Spec: Law Cases [97]
Spelmans Concilia [33]
Spenser’s Works [314]
Ssocrates [spelling original] [154]
State of Great Britain [249]
State of Republick of Letters [243]
Sullivan’s Lectures on Law [68]
[Swift] Life of Swift [315]
Swifts Works [299]
Swinburne of Wills [30]
System of Oratory [234]
Tacitus [155]
Taylor on Original Sin [324]
Taylor’s Doc.t of Attonement [273]
Tell Tale [321]
The Art of Speaking [201]
The Gentleman’s Library [215]
The Politi Arts [260]
Thelogia Dogmatica et Morales [123]
Thesaurus Brevision [54]
[Thomas, Gordon] The Humourist [331]
[Thomasius] Fundamenta Juris Naturae [83]
Thomsons Liasons [241]
Thomsons Seasons [216]
Thoughts on Christianity [311]
Tillotsons Works [18]
Tonnage & Boundage [167]
Traps Virgil Adminis:t British Colonies (see above) [338]
Traps Virgil [337]
Travels through Turkey [258]
Treatise on Milit.Discipline [242]
Treatises on Libels [122]
True Sentiments of America [269]
Tully’s Epistles [141]
Tully’s Oratories [139]
Tully’s Epistles [142]
Tully’s Offices [143]
Tully’s Oratories in Unum Delphini [140]
Tully’s Select Oratories [144]
Vattels Law of Nations [71]
Venus Unmasked [313]
Vidians Entries [37]
View of [the] Admiral Jurisdic: [Thomas Ridley’s
A View of the Civile and Ecclesiastical Law?] [198]
Virgil [118]
Virgil [265]
Virgil, Traps Virgil [337]
Voltaire’s Letters [290]
Voltare’s Letters [spelling original] [213]
Wallers Poems [200]
[Welwood] Sea Laws [82]
West’s Presdents [131]
Whole Duty of Man [271]
Wilsons Reports [40]
Winch’s Entries [5]
Womans Lawyer [146]
Wood’s History of Massachusets [spelling original] [120]
Woods Civil Law [11]
[Zouche] View of the Admiral Juridic [198]

Bibliographical Guide to Quincy’s Library Catalogue

Mark G. Sullivan, Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law, Boston College Law Library

This list is designed to serve as a guide to Appendix VIII, Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Estate of Josiah Quincy Junr. Esq: Deceased. An entry on the list which does not provide enough information to reasonably identify it has been left in its original form. Where an identifiable work has more than one edition, preference is given to an eighteenth-century edition. I wish to thank Meredith Duval, Boston College Law School, 2009, for her able assistance in compiling this list. Any errors, omissions, or oversights in this list are solely my responsibility.

1. Rawlin, William. The Laws of Barbados. London, 1699.

2. Collier, Jeremy. The Great Historical, Geographical, Geneaological and Poetical Dictionary. London, 1701.

3. Scapula, Johann. Lexicon Graeco-Latinum Novum. London, 1652.

4. Cunningham, Timothy. A New and Complete Law-Dictionary. Dublin, 1764.

5. Winch, Sir Humphrey. Le Beau-Pleadeu: A Book of Entries Containing Declarations, Informations and Other Select and Approved Pleadings. London, 1680.

6. Brissionius [Barnabe Brisson?]

7. Ayliffe, John. New Pandect of the Roman Civil Law. London, 1734.

8. ———. Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani. London, 1734.

9. Domat, Jean. Civil Law in its Natural Order. London, 1772.

10. Plowden, Edmund. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden Containing Divers Cases upon Matters of Law, Argued and Adjudged in the Several Reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary, King and Queen Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth [1548–1579]. London, 1761.

11. Wood, Thomas. A New Institute of the Imperial or Civil Law. London, 1730.

12. Laws of Virginia

13. Beawes, Wyndham. Lex Mercatoria Rediviva. London, 1752.

14. Connely Commentarys

15. Rastell, William. Les Termes de la Ley; or, Certaine Difficult and Obscure Words and Termes of the Common Lawes of this Realm Expounded. London, 1708.

16. Cases in Equity Abridged

17. Calvins [John] Responia

18. Tillotson, John. The Works of the Rev. Dr. John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Cantebury. 3 v. London, 1752.

19. Josephus, Flavius. The Works of Flavius Josephus which are Extant. . . . Translated from the Original Greek. London, 1733.

20. Pliny the Elder. The Historie of the World: Commonly Called, the Natural Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. London, 1634.

21. Hobbes, Thomas. The History of the Grecian War . . . Written by Thucydides. London, 1723.

22. Keble, Joseph. Reports, King’s Bench, at Westminster [1661–1679]. London, 1685.

23. Hawkins, William. Pleas of the Crown. London, 1716–21.

24. Lily, John. Collection of Modern Entries. London, 1758.

25. ———. Practical Register, or, General Abridgement of the Law. 2 v. London, 1719.

26. Chancery Cases [Cases in Chancery (1660–88), London, 1735?]

27. Brownlow, Richard. Latine Redivivus; A Book of Entries. London, 1692.

28. Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton. London, 1731.

29. Mallory, John. Modern Entries in English. 2 v. London, 1734–35.

30. Swinburne, Henry. Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes. London, 1728.

31. Salkeld, William. Reports, King’s Bench [1689–1712]. 3 v. London, 1717–24.

32. Pufendorf, Samuel. Law of Nature and Nations. Oxford, 1703.

33. Spelman, Henry. Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones in Re Ecclesiastica Orbis Britannici. 2 v. London, 1639–64.

34. Coke, Sir Edward. First Parte of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or, Commentarie upon Littleton. London, 1629.

35. Rushworth, John. Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments, 1618–1648. 8 v. London, 1721–22.

36. Carkasse, Charles. A Supplement to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, Commonly Called the Book of Rates, Published in Folio in the Year, 1726. London, 1737.

37. Vidian, Andrew. Exact Pleader; A Book of Entries of Choice, Select, and Special Pleadings in the Court of King’s-Bench in the Reign of Charles II. London, 1684.

38. Bractis: Seriven: Modern Conveyances

39. Raymond, Sir Thomas. Reports, King’s Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer [1660–83]. London, 1743.

40. Wilson, George. Reports, King’s Court at Westminster; King’s Bench [1742–53], Common Pleas [1753–1774]. 2 v. London, 1770–75.

41. Bulstrode, Edward. Reports in King’s Bench, 1609–26. London, 1657–59.

42. Bacon, Sir Francis. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, High Chancellor of England. 4 v. London, 1740.

43. Locke, John. The Works of John Locke, Esq. 3 v. London, 1714.

44. Liber Placitandi; A Book of Special Pleadings Containing Precedents of Pleas in Abatement, Declarations, Barrs, etc. London, 1671.

45. The Pleadings, Arguments, and Other Proceedings in the Court of Kings-Bench upon the Quo Warranto Touching the Charter of the City of London with the Judgement Entered Thereupon. London, 1696.

46. Atkyns, John T. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. London, 1765–68.

47. Modern Cases [Modern Reports, part vii, “Modern Cases,” London, 1716?]

48. Cases in Chancery [See No. 26 and titles at Sweet & Maxwell, vol. 1, 346–347]

49. Select cases in Chancery [See Sweet & Maxwell, vol. 1, 346–347]

50. Hansard, John. Book of Entries; Of Declarations and Other Pleadings,

General and Special, in Actions in the Court of King’s Bench. London, 1685.

51. Justinius, Marcus Junianus. Justin’s History of the World, from the Assyrian Monarchy Down to the Time of Augustus. London, 1702.

52. Massachusetts. The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Ann to the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England. Boston, 1726.

53. Kelyng, Sir John. Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown [1662–69], with Directions for Justices of the Peace. London, 1708.

54. J.C. Thesaurus Brevium, Or, A Collection of Approved Forms of Writs, and Pleadings to those Writs and Entries of those Writs and Pleadings Together with their Special Directions to all Cities and Boroughs: Also an Exact Table of the Writs and Pleadings Therein Contained: Very Useful for all Students, and of Absolute Necessity for all Practisers in the Common Law of this Realm. London, 1687.

55. Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Journal of the Honorable House of Representatives of His Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, Begun and Held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wednesday the Thirty-First Day of May, Annoque Domini, 1769. Boston, 1770.

56. Rhode Island Laws

57. Ludlow, Edmund. Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq. 3 v. London, 1720–22.

58. Moor, Sir Francis. Law of Charitable Uses. London, 1676.

59. Bartall’s Abridgement of Statutes [Not in Sweet & Maxwell or Cowley]

60. Coke, Sir Edward. The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient, and Other Statutes, Whereof You May See the Particulars in a Table Following. London, 1681.

61. Sidney, Algernon. Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sydney with His Letters Trial Apology and some Memoirs of His Life. London, 1763.

62. Hobart, Sir Henry. Reports in the Reign of James I with Some Few Cases in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. London, 1724.

63. Ley, Sir James. Reports of Resolutions in Law Arising Upon Cases in the Court of Wards and Other Courts at Westminster [1608–29]. London, 1659.

64. Button Abridgement of Statutes [Not in Sweet & Maxwell or Cowley]

65. Bodin, Jean. Of the Lawes and Customes of a Commonwealth. London, 1635.

66. Martyn, John. Dissertations and Critical Remarks Upon the Aenids of Virgil. London, 1770.

67. Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 4 v. Oxford, 1765–69.

68. Sullivan, Francis. Lectures on the Constitution and Law of England. London, 1770.

69. Barrington, Daines. Observations Upon the Statutes, Chiefly the More Ancient From Magna Carta to 21st James the First, ch xxxvii. London, 1766.

70. Gordon, Thomas. The Works of Sallust, Translated into English. London, 1745.

71. Vattel, Emerich de. The Law of Nations, Translated from the French. London, 1760.

72. Dutch & English Dictionary

73. Ainsworth, Robert. Thesauraus Linguae Latinae Compendiarius, or, A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue, Designed for the Use of the British Nations. 2 v. London, 1736.

74. Latin D [Dictionary?]

75. Boyer, Abel. The Royal Dictionary. French and English and English and French: Extracted from the Writings of the Best Authors. London, 1748.

76. Quintilian, Marcus. De Institutione Oratoria Libri Duodecim, Cum Notis. per P. Burmannum. Leiden, 1620.

77. Harangues in French

78. Simpson, William. The Practical Justice of the Peace and Parish-Officer, of His Majesty’s Province in South Carolina. Charleston, 1761.

79. Burrow, Sir John. Decisions, King’s Bench, upon Settlement Cases, from 1732. London, 1768.

80. Croke, Sir George. Reports of Cases in King’s Bench and Commons Bench [1582–1641]. London, 1683.

81. Coke’s Digest

82. Welwood, William. Abridgement of all Sea-Lawes. London, 1613

83. Thomasius, Christian. Fundamenta Juris Naturae et Gentium ex Sensu Communi Deducta. Salfeld, 1718.

84. Schetter, Franciscus. Italy in its Original Glory, Ruine and Revival. London, 1660.

85. Corberon [Nicholas de Corberon?]

86. Caussina de Eloquentia

87. Rivetus’ Commenataries [Andreas Rivetus?]

88. Godolphin, John. Orphan’s Legacy; or, Testamentary Abridgement. In Three Parts. London, 1701.

89. Pownall, Thomas. Principles of Polity: Being the Grounds and Reasons of Civil Empire. London, 1752.

90. Burn, Richard. Ecclesiastical Law. London, 1763.

91. Geometry in French

92. De Enerogatisia

93. Sayer, Joseph. Law of Damages. London, 1770.

94. The Practick Part of the Law Shewing the Office of an Attorney, and a Guide for Solicitors in all the Courts of Westminster. London, 1724.

95. Lexicon

96. The Law of Attornies and Solicitors, Containing all of the Statutes, Adjudged Cases, Resolutions and Judgments Concerning Them. London, 1764.

97. Speciall and Selected Law-Cases Concerning the Persons and Estates of all Men Whatsoever; Collected out of the Reports and Yearbooks of the Common Law of England. London, 1641.

98. Blackstone, William. Law Tracts. Oxford, 1762.

99. Saxby, Henry. The British Customs; Containing an Historical and Practical Account of each Branch of that Revenue; The Rates of Merchandize, as Settled by the 12th of Car. II. cap. 4. and 11 Geo. I. cap. 7. London, 1757.

100. Lolme, Jean Louis de. The Constitution of England; or, An Account of the English Government. London, 1775.

101. DiBriee’s Works

102. Wentworth, Thomas and Curson, Henry. The Office and Duty of Executors, or, A Treatise Directing Testators to Form, and Executors to Perform their Wills and Testaments According to Law. London, 1774.

103. The Law of Executors and Administrators; Being a Common Law Treatise. London, 1702.

104. Gardiner, Robert. Instructor [Instructio] Clericalis. Compleat in Five Parts. London, 1715.

105. Kennet, Basil. Romae Antiquae Notitia; in Two Parts. London, 1746.

106. Dunsten’s Horace

107. Nelson, William. Lex Testamentaria. London, 1714.

108. Dagge, Henry. Considerations on Criminal Law. London, 1772.

109. Juvenal

110. Burlamaqui, J. J. The Principles of Politic Law; Being a Sequel to the Principles of Natural Law. London, 1752.

111. Decisions Upon the Boor’s Law

112. Montesquieu, Baron de. The Spirit of the Laws. Edinburgh, 1750.

113. Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Holt. London, 1764.

114. Nelson, William. Law of Evidence. London, 1717.

115. Belyl’s Rights of the Commons of England

116. Hale, Sir Matthew. Historia Placitorum Coronae; The History of the Pleas of the Crown. London, 1736.

117. Caesar’s Government

118. Virgil

119. Horace

120. Wood’s History of Massachusets

121. Farmer a Narrative of the Proced against T. Wilkes Esq. 3

122. Treatises on Libels

123. Cocina, Daniele. Theologia Christiana Dogmatica Moralis. 10 v. Rome 1768.

124. Ovid’s Fastorum Liber

125. Defense of [the] New Engl:d Charter

126. Mitchell, John. The Present State of Great Britain and North America with Regard to Agriculture. Population, Trade, and Manufactures, Impartially Considered. London, 1767.

127. Pris: Parliament [Privileges of Parliament, London, 1680?]

128. Political Treatises

129. American Episcopal Disputes

130. Poor Acts

131. West’s Presdents [W. West, Symboleography (“Presidents”), London, 1641]

132. Acherly, Roger. Free Parliaments, or an Argument on their Constitution, Proving Some of their Powers to be Independent. London, 1731.

133. Hayes, Richard. The Negociator’s Magazine, or, The Exchanges Anatomiz’d, in Two Parts. London, 1724.

134. Nelson, William. The Rights of the Clergy of Great Britain as Established by the Canons, the Common Law, and the Statutes of the Realm. London, 1709.

135. Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van. Opuscula Philosophica: Quibus Continentur Principia Philosophiae Antiquissimae & Recentissimae ac Philosophia Vulgaris Refutata. Amsterdam, 1690.

136. Florus [Lucius Annaeus Florus?]

137. Franks Law of Exchange

138. Excellency[the]Breh: of [the] Laws of England

139. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Translated into English, with Notes Historical and Critical. 2 v. London, 1741.

140. Ditto d. in Unum Delphini

141. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. The Epistles of M.T. Cicero to M. Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero, with English Notes to each Epistle. London, 1743.

142. Ditto D

143. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tully’s Offices, in English. London, 1714.

144. ———. Cicero’s Select Orations. London, 1756.

145. Homer

146. The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall Collection of Such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinions, Arguments and Points of Learning in the Law, as doe Properly Concerne Women. London, 1632.

147. Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey. The Law of Devises, Revocations and Last Wills. London, 1756.

148. Calvin, John. Praelectiones in Duodecim Prophetas (Quos Vacant) Minores. Geneva, 1610.

149. Silburns Trial

150. Gassendus [Pierre Gassendi?]

151. Cort [Court] Reports

152. Noy, William. Rights of the Crown. London, 1715.

153. Mallory, John. The Attorney’s Pocket Companion, or, a Guide to the Practisers of the Law. 2 v. London, 1733.

154. Ssocrates [spelling original]

155. Tacitus

156. Termes de [la] Ley [Rastell]. See Entry 15

157. Epicetus

158. Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. New Natura Brevium. London, 1718.

159. Aler, Paul. Gradus ad Parnassum: Sive, Novus Synonymorum, Epithetorum, Phrasium Poeticarum, ac Versuum Thesarus. London, 1756.

160. Chamberlayne, Edward. Angliae Notitia, or, The Present State of England, with Divers Remarks upon the Ancient State Thereof. London, 1704.

161. Fortescue, Sir John. De Laudibus Legum Angliae. London, 1741.

162. Selden, John. Brief Discourse Touching the Office of Lord Chancellor of England. London, 1672.

163. Distin: Philosph:a

164. Justin’s History. See Entry 51

165. Davies, Sir John. Jus Imponendi Vectigalia; or, The Learning Touching Customs, Tonnage, Poundage, and Impositions on Merchandizes. London, 1659.

166. Lucretius. [Titus Lucretius Carus, c. 98–c. 55 b.c.]

167. Carkesse, Charles. Act of Tonnage and Poundage, and Rates of Merchandize, and All Other Duties Relating to Her Majesties Customs. London, 1702.

168. Logick

169. D [Ditto]

170. Sheppard, William. Action Upon the Case for Slander. London, 1662.

171. Elogia

172. Johnson, John. Clergyman’s Vade-Mecum; or An Account of the Ancient and Present Church of England, the Duties and Rights of the Clergy, and of their Privileges and Hardships. London, 1723.

173. Godolphin, John. View of the Admiral Jurisdiction. London, 1661.

174. Chronica Juridicialia; or A General Calendar of the Years, from the First Year of William the Conqueror, to this First Year of James II. London, 1685.

175. Praxis Utriusque Banci, the Antient and Modern Practice of the Two Superior Courts at Westminster, viz. The King’s Bench and Common Pleas. London, 1674.

176. Kendall, George. Fur Pro Tribunali. Examen Dialogismi cui Inscribitur fur Praedestinatus. Oxford, 1657.

177. Horace. Oeuvres d’Horace. 2 v. Amsterdam, 1710.

178. Milton, John. A Defence of the People of England: in Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King. Amsterdam, 1692.

179. Christi:theolo

180. Latin Testament

181. Clements

182. Milton, John. The Life and Reigne of King Charls, or the Pseudo-Martyr Discovered. London, 1651.

183. Latin Gram:

184. Greek Testament

186. Nomenclature

187. D.o. [Ditto]

188. Corderius [Mathurin Cordier?]

189. Clark, Samuel. An Easy Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics. London, 1764.

190. Schotanus, Bernardus. Examen Juridicum Quo Fundamenta Jurisprudentiae Explicantur. Jena, 1663.

191. Astry, Sir James. A General Charge to All Grand Juries and Other Juries: with Advice for those of Life and Death, Nisi Prius, etc. London, 1725.

192. Della Casa, Giovanni. J. Casa His Galateus, or A Treatise of Manners. Wherein a Father Instructs His Son. London, 1701.

193. Rhetorick

194. Clayton, John. Topicks in the Laws of England. London, 1646.

195. Maeick

196. Latin Bible

197. Liturgia Ceclesia

198. Zouch, Richard. View of the Admiralty Jurisdiction, with the Privileges of the Court. London, 1661.

199. Briers Poems

200. Waller, Edmund. Poems, Written Upon Several Occasions, and to Several Persons. London, 1711.

201. The Art of Speaking

202. Whitehead, William. Poems on Several Occasions, with the Roman Father, a Tragedy. London, 1754.

203. Dodd, William, editor. The Beauties of Shakespear: Regularly Selected from Each Play. 2 v. London, 1757.

204. Le Facheur, Michel. An Essay upon the Action of an Orator; As to His Pronunciation & Gesture. London, 1727.

205. Edwards, Jonathan. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts. Boston, 1746.

206. Robertson, William. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. 3 v. London, 1769.

207. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives. London, 1758.

208. Burgh, James. Political Disquisitions, or An Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects and Abuses. 3 v. London, 1774–75.

209. Harris, William. An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. London, 1762.

210. Robertson, William. The History of Scotland, During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. Till His Accession to the Crown of England. With a Review of the Scottish History Previous to that Period. London, 1759.

211. [William Shakespeare] Coriolanus a Tragedy (1623)

212. Defoe, Daniel. The Family Instructor, in Three Parts. London, 1734.

213. Voltaire, Françoise Marie Arouet de. Letters Concerning the English Nation. London, 1733.

214. Butler, Samuel. The Posthumous Works of Mr. Samuel Butler, (Author of Hudibras) Compleat in One Volume: Written in the Time of the Grand Rebellion and in the Reign of King Charles II. London, 1732.

215. The Gentleman’s Library, Containing Rules of Conduct for All Parts of Life. London, 1715.

216. Thomson, James. The Seasons. London, 1730.

217. The North Briton. 3 v. London, 1763.

218. Pemberton, Henry. A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy. London, 1728.

219. Addison, Joseph. The Freeholder, or Political Essays. London, 1715–16.

220. Hume, David. Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. London, 1770.

221. Marchmont, Nedham. The Excellencie of a Free-State, or, The Right Constitution of a Common-wealth Wherein All Objections are Answered, and the Best Way to Secure the People’s Liberties Discovered: With Some Errors of Government, and Rules of Policie. London, 1656.

222. Biefeld, Jakob Friedrich. The Elements of Universal Erudition, Containing an Analytical Abridgement of the Sciences, Polite Arts, and Belle Lettres. London, 1770.

223. Almon, John. A Complete Collection of the Lords’ Protests: From the First upon Record, in the Reign of Henry the Third, to the Present Time. London, 1767.

224. Voltaire, Françoise Marie Arouet de. The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket. London, 1765.

225. ———. The Philosophy of History. London, 1766.

226. Harbin, George. The English Constitution Fully Stated. London, 1710.

227. Forster, Johann Reinhold. Travels into North America Containing its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in General; With the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country, the Manners of the Inhabitants, and Several Curious and Important Remarks on Various Subjects. London, 1770–71.

228. Scott, Sarah. The Life of Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné, Containing a Succinct Account of the Most Remarkable Occurrences During the Civil Wars of France, in the Reigns of Charles IX, Henry III, Henry IV, and the Minority of Lewis XIII. London, 1772.

229. Laugier, Marc-Antoine. The History of the Negociations for the Peace Concluded at Belgrade September 18 1739 Between the Emperor, Russia, and the Ottoman Porte. London, 1770.

230. Macaulay, Catharine. The History of England from the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House of Hanover. 5 v. London, 1769–72.

231. Gordon, Thomas. The Works of Tacitus. 4 v. London, 1728–31.

232. Beccaria, Cesare. An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. London, 1770.

233. Montagu, Edward W. Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks. Adopted to the Present State of Great Britain. London, 1769.

234. Ward, John. A System of Oratory Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly Read at Gresham College, London. 2 v. London, 1759.

235. Cheyne, George. Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Reveal’d. London, 1715.

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270. Moore, Edward. Fables for the Female Sex. London, 1744.

271. Pufendorf, Samuel. The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature. London, 1735.

272. Art of Providence

273. Taylor, John. The Scripture Doctrine of Atonement Examined. London, 1751.

274. Edwards, Jonathan. A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Vertue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame. Boston, 1754.

275. Butler, Joseph. Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel. London, 1726.

276. Mayhew, Jonathan. Sermons to Young Men, In Two Volumes. 2 v. London, 1767.

277. ———. Sermons Upon the Following Subjects . . . Boston, 1755.

278. Ostervald, Jean Frederic. The Arguments of the Books and Chapters of the Old and New Testament. London, 1716.

279. Mayhew, Jonathan. A Sermon Preached at Boston in New-England May 26, 1751. Boston, 1751.

280. Sadler, John. Rights of the Kingdom, or Customs of Our Ancestors. London, 1692.

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284. An[glican] Bishops

285. Marriners New Kallender

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287. Poems

288. Tompson, Benjamin. New-England’s Tears for Her Present Miseries, or, A Late and True Relation of the Calamities of New-England Since April Last Past. London, 1676.

289. Satyrs

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291. Poems

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293. Introduc: to Geography

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295. Marvell, Andrew. The Rehearsal Transpos’d, or, Animadversions Upon a Late Book Intituled, A Preface Shewing What Grounds There are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery. London, 1672.

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298. D.o. d [Ditto]

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307. Farquhar, George. The Beaux Stratagem: A Comedy. London, 1707.

308. To the Memory of the Illustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham. London, 1687.

309. Olwary’s Plays

310. Ovid. Ovid’s Art of Love with Hero and Leander of Musaeus, from the Greek. London, 1692.

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314. Spenser, Edmund. The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmund Spenser. London, 1679.

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316. Danvers. Henry. Solomon’s Proverbs, English and Latin. London, 1702.

317. Mackenzie, George. The Religious Stoic . . . with a Friendly Address to the Phanatics of All Sects and Sorts. London, 1693.

318. Grotius, Hugo. Hugo Grotius, His Most Choice Discourses Out of that Excellent Treatise De Veritate Religionis Christianæ. London, 1669.

319. Poems on Several Occasions

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326. Ward, John. The Young Mathematician’s Guide: Being a Plain and Easy Introduction to the Mathematicks; In Five Parts. London, 1719.

327. Brown, John. Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Time. London, 1757.

328. Armstrong, John. The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem. London, 1744.

329. Flynt, Henry. Twenty Sermons on Various Subjects. Boston, 1739.

330. Nites of Original Sin

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332. The North Briton. Xlvi Numbers Complete. 4 v. London, 1772.

333. Sidney, Sir Phillip. The Defense of Poesy. Glagow, 1752.

334. A Collection of Letters and Essays in Favour of Public Liberty, First Published in the Newspapers in the Year 1764 . . . , and 1770. 3 v. London, 1774.

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342. [Littleton] L:d Littletons Henry 2.d 6

343. Harris, William. An Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of James the First, King of Great Britain. London, 1753.

1. Dissent: 12 Cases-21, 25, 29, 30, 31, 37, 39, 42, 46, 47, 52, 55 (The Chief Justice was by far the leading dissenter!)

2. Dissent: 2 Cases-47, 59

3. Dissent: 3 Cases-1, 29, 55. William Cushing dissented in Case 69.

4. Dissent: 4 Cases-1, 25, 42, 53

5. Dissent: 3 Cases-10, 17, 53

6. Dissent: 2 Cases-59, 61

1. See Cases 1, 5, 6, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 43, 49, 50, 51, 54, 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74.

2. See Cases 7, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, Memorial of the Town of Boston (Reports, 200), 53, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 75, 76, 78.

3. See Cases 1, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 24, 34, 35, 36, 38, 41, 42, 44, 48, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 69.

4. See Cases 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 13, 21, 28, 40, 41, 46, 55, 56, 58, 59, 62, 65, 70, 74.

5. See Cases 10, 31, 40, 41, 46, 47, 51, 52, 55, 57, 61, 63.

6. See Memo, Reports, 35, Memo, Reports, 168, Grand Jury Charge, Reports, 175, Memo, Reports, 197, Memo, Reports, 198, Memo, Reports, 316, Cases 72, 74.

7. See Cases 24, 25, 29, 43, 60, 75, 76.

8. See Cases 9, 20, 26, 29, 42, 59.

9. See Cases 27, 45, 64, 66, 67, 77.

10. See Cases 17, 22, 73, 78.

11. See Cases 34, 37, 44.

12. See Cases 13, 36.

1. See Cases 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, Memorial of Boston (Reports, 200), 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 75, 78.

2. See Cases 17, 20, 22, 29, 30, 31, 35, 41, 42, 47, 51, 61, 63, 64, 70, 73, 75, 77.

3. See Cases 2, 4, 7, 21, 40, 46, 50, 51, 56, 58, 59.

4. See Cases 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 23, 27, 32, 34, 36, 40, 45, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72.

5. See Cases 7, 9, 29.

1. Quincy Papers, vol. 4, pp. 5–12.

2. The Superior Court of Judicature was created by the so-called “Second Charter,” establishing the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The Charter was executed on October 1, 1691, by King William and Queen Mary, joint sovereigns, and the Court was created under the Province Laws on November 25, 1692. The first session was held in Salem on January 3, 1693. See The History of the Law in Massachusetts: The Supreme Judicial Court 1692–1992 (ed. Russell K. Osgood, Boston, 1992), pp. 1–2, 10–13 (hereafter, “History”); The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1692–1942 (Boston, 1942, p. 3, hereafter, “Supreme Judicial Court”). For an excellent account of the evolution of the Massachusetts court system, see Catherine S. Menand, “A ‘magistracy fit and necessary’: A Guide to the Massachusetts Court System,” Law in Colonial Massachusetts 1630–1800 (ed. D. R. Coquillette, R. J. Brink, C. S. Menand, 1984), pp. 541–549. Massachusetts was also the first state to appoint an official reporter. For an excellent account of Ephraim Williams (1760–1833), appointed Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1804, see Morris L. Cohen and Paul C. Seeman, “A Man Without Qualities: Ephraim Williams, First Reporter of the Supreme Judicial Court,” 9 Massachusetts Legal History 137 (2003). I am also indebted to this excellent article for the second quotation on the title page. Id., 153.

3. Barbara Aronstein Black, “The Concept of a Supreme Judicial Court: Massachusetts Bay 1630–1686” in History, supra, pp. 43–79.

4. Russell K. Osgood, “The Supreme Judicial Court, 1692–1992: An Overview,” History, supra, p. 10.

5. This is a distinction that Bermuda itself, the oldest self-governing Colony of the United Kingdom, was apparently blissfully unaware of, until it was contacted by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts! In the words of Karen Skiffington, Law Librarian in Bermuda since 1986:

What is not so widely known is that Bermuda’s judicial system is also the oldest in the Western Hemisphere. I found this out recently as the result of an enquiry from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts who, until then, had considered their court to be the oldest continuing court, dating back to 1692. I was able to find out through the Bermuda archives that our court system was established in 1616 with the General Assizes which was continued into the Courts of Judicature in 1687 and then on into our Supreme Court.

Karen Skiffington, “The Bermuda Law Reports as a Model for a Small Jurisdiction,” 2004 Canadian Law Library Review, vol. 29, p. 36.

6. See id., pp. 36–37. Again, according to Karen Skiffington, who is largely responsible for establishing real law reporting for Bermuda:

With such an ancient lineage, it would be reasonable to suppose that Bermuda had case law reports dating back for quite some time. However, due to the extremely small size of the Island and its unimportance until late in the twentieth century in international business and legal affairs, there has never been any publication in a serious way of our law reports. A handful of our cases have been reported in the West Indian Law Reports.

Id., p. 36. With special thanks to Michael Morales, research assistant extraordinaire.

7. See “Introduction: First Flower-The Earliest American Law Reports and the Extraordinary Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744–1775),” Quincy Papers, vol. 4, supra, note 3, for my argument that Josiah Quincy Jr. “was the first American to deliberately and self-consciously prepare a set of law reports.”

8. This was not a designation by Quincy himself. For the division of the Reports between Quincy’s manuscript note books, which does not follow any apparent rationale, other than space, see The Cox Chart, Appendix II, The Law Commonplace, Quincy Papers, vol. 2, pp. 429–435.

9. Oliver was in physical danger for failing to renounce any royal salary, and Hutchinson was humiliated. See Bernard Bailyn’s classic The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (Cambridge, Mass., 1974), pp. 270–271.

10. Supreme Judicial Court, supra, p. 39. See Russell K. Osgood, “The Supreme Judicial Court, 1692–1992: An Overview,” History, supra, pp. 14–15.

11. Thus the statute of 1776 “providing that ‘Whereas Boston, the place appointed by law for holding the superior[u]r court of judicature . . . within and for the county of Suffolk, is now made a garrison by the ministerial army, and become a common receptacle for the enemies of America,’ the court for the future should be held at Dedham and at Braintree.” Id., p. 39.

12. Of the four justices constituting the Court on July 19, 1775, Chief Justice Peter Oliver and Justices Foster Hutchinson and William Browne were loyalists, and went into exile. Justice William Cushing was a known moderate, and was reappointed. The fifth justice, Justice Edmund Trowbridge, who is frequently mentioned in Quincy’s Reports, was “a moderate sympathizer with the English government,” but, unlike Oliver, Trowbridge renounced any Crown salary, and declared he would “receive no salary except that granted by the General Court.” Id., p. 38. Trowbridge, one of the few colonial judges trained as a lawyer, resigned before July 19, 1775, after jurors refused to sit with Oliver. Trowbridge remained in Massachusetts, practicing law until his death in 1793.

13. Id., p. 40.

14. Cushing served as a Justice of the Supreme Court for the United States from 1789 to 1810. In 1796, he was actually appointed Chief Justice of the United States by Washington, but declined because of his health. Russell K. Osgood, “The Supreme Judicial Court, 1692–1992: An Overview,” History, supra, p. 16, n. 64. What an astonishing record for the Justice who was the personal continuity of the Superior Court of Judicature through the Revolution!

15. Id., p. 16; Supreme Judicial Court, supra, pp. 39–42.

16. The primary exception was Hooton v. Grout, Reports, infra, p. 343 (Case No. 75, 1772), where Quincy managed to obtain a written opinion by Justice Edmund Trowbridge, one of the few colonial judges trained as a lawyer. Trowbridge also wrote a dissent in Richmond v. Davis, Reports, infra, p. 279 (Case No. 61, 1768), which did not persuade the other four justices in the majority to write opinions, to Quincy’s evident disappointment. Id., p. 297.

17. Address by the Chief Justice, Reports, infra, p. 197 (1765).

18. For an account of the social bonds between members of the elite bar in Quincy’s time, including the famous “Sodalitas, a Clubb of Friends,” see Daniel R. Coquillette, “Justinian in Braintree: John Adams, Civilian Learning, and Legal Elitism, 1758–1775,” in Law in Colonial Massachusetts 1630–1800 (eds. D. R. Coquillette, R. J. Brink, C. S. Menand, 1984), pp. 376–382.

19. For the shared legal education of the elite bar in Quincy’s time, which often emphasized an intellectually rigorous apprenticeship, see Daniel R. Coquillette, “The Legal Education of a Patriot: Josiah Quincy Jr.’s Law Commonplace,” Introduction, The Law Commonplace, Quincy Papers, vol. 2, supra, first published in 39 Arizona State Law Journal 317 (2007).

20. See Appendix 5, infra, Citations to Quincy’s Reports.

21. Perhaps the most remarkable example being the great speeches given by John Adams, James Otis Jr., and Jeremy Gridley in the Memorial of Boston, 1765, to the Governor in Council against the consequences of the Stamp Act, which de facto shut the courts. See Reports, infra, pp. 200–214.

22. See Daniel R. Coquillette, “Patriots in Defense of the ‘Enemy,’” Op-Ed, Boston Globe, January 18, 2007.

23. See Mark G. Sullivan, “‘Phantom’ References to Quincy’s Reports in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Reports,” supra, Appendix 5, in conclusion.

24. See Daniel R. Coquillette, Introduction to Quincy Papers, volumes 4 and 5, “First Flower-The Earliest American Law Reports and the Extraordinary Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744–1775),” Sec. V.

25. For a partial list of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cases which cite to Quincy’s Reports see Coquillette, Daniel R., First Flower-The Earliest American Law Reports and the Extraordinary Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744–1775), 30 Suffolk University Law Review 1 (1996), fn. 34 at 10. That list has now been expanded through the hard and valuable work of Michael E. Morales, Boston College Law School, 2009. See, Appendix 5, infra. I am very grateful for Mr. Morales’ efforts. This report will focus on two of the cases listed there, and will examine another citation to Quincy’s Reports in a volume of the Supreme Judicial Court Reports published before 1865.

26. 79 Mass (13 Gray) 409 (1859).

27. Id., 412.

28. “Remarks by the President: Tribute to Horace Gray.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Volume XVI, 251, 256. Lemuel Shaw (1781–1861) served on the Supreme Judicial Court from 1830–1860. See “Lemuel Shaw,” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 17, 42–43 (1931).

29. 75 Mass (9 Gray) 451, 518 (1857).

30. 91 Mass (9 Allen) 69 (1864).

31. Id., 72.

32. “Horace Gray” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 7, 518 (1931); Williston, Samuel. “Horace Gray” in Lewis, William D., Great American Lawyers. South Hackensack, NJ: Rothman Reprints (1971), Vol. 8, 139, 141.

33. Prior to his appointment as Reporter of Decisions in 1848, Luther Cushing (1803–1856) was a legal scholar and editor, clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a judge in the court of common pleas. See “Luther Cushing” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 4, 632 (1930).

34. “Remarks by the President: Tribute to Horace Gray,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Volume XVI, 251, 255; Williston, Samuel. “Horace Gray”, in Great American Lawyers, Vol. 8, 139, 144–145.

35. See, e.g., “Points Decided by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts . . . at the March Term, 1854,” 3 American Law Register 57 (November, 1854) and “Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts-October Term, 1854. Greene v. Greene.” 4 American Law Register 42 (November–December, 1855).

36. See, e.g., “Recent American Decisions; Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk, March Term, 1854. John Kent v. Thomas Garvin,” Monthly Law Reporter 39 (May 1854), and “Notes of Cases in Massachusetts; Supreme Judicial Court-Counties of Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstable, and Dukes County. October Term, 1856,” Monthly Law Reporter 581 (February 1857). John Lowell (1824–1897) was admitted to the Boston bar in 1846, edited the Monthly Law Reporter from 1856 to 1860, and was appointed to the Federal bench by President Lincoln in 1865. See “John Lowell” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 11, 466–467 (1933).

37. Bent, Samuel Arthur, Eulogy of Samuel M. Quincy; Proceedings of the Bostonian Society, May 24, 1887. Boston: The Bostonian Society 8 (1887); “Criticism Criticised,” Monthly Law Reporter 576 (January 1859).

38. See fn. 2, supra.

39. Theron Metcalf (1784–1875) served as Reporter of Decisions for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1840–1847. Prior to his appointment as Reporter, Metcalf had an active law practice, was a frequent contributor to law journals, and edited Sir Henry Yelverton’s Reports (1820), Thomas Starkie’s Evidence and Sir William O. Russell’s Crimes. He served on the Supreme Judicial Court from 1848 to 1865. See “Theron Metcalf” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 12, 582 (1931).

40. St. 1859, Ch. 196, section 48.

41. Volume 13 contains a notice which states that the “. . . cause of the appearance of this volume while the intermediate volumes are unpublished, is to be found in the following section of the Statute of 1859, chapter 196 . . .”; the notice then provides the full text of Section 48, which set out the new 60-day reporting requirement.

42. Hoar, George. “Memoir of Horace Gray,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Volume XVIII, 155, 162. (1904). A reviewer for the Monthly Law Reporter called attention to the fact that the delay in publishing the last volume of Cushing’s Reports had created a situation where “. . . in some instances, at least, counsel have been giving erroneous advice to their clients for years.” See, Monthly Law Reporter 254–255 (August, 1860).

43. “Horace Gray” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 7, 518.

44. Eicher, John H. and David J., Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, 443.

45. Hoar, “Memoir of Horace Gray,” 163; Charles Allen (1827–1913) practiced law in Greenfield, Massachusetts, before his appointment as Reporter of Decisions in January 1861. After his resignation as Reporter in 1867, he went on to serve Massachusetts as Attorney General and as a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. See “Charles Allen” in Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 1, 186 (1928).

46. Monthly Law Reporter 605 (August, 1862).

47. Letter of Josiah Quincy to Horace Gray, August 18, 1862. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts.

48. Bent, Eulogy of Samuel M. Quincy, 10–13.

49. Monthly Law Reporter 126 (December 1862).

50. Monthly Law Reporter 191 (January 1863).

51. The publication delay for Volume 9 was not overlooked by commentators. One reviewer noted that “Mr. Gray’s last volumes come along like angels’ visits.” See “Notices of New Books,” American Law Register 636 (June 1863). The usually complimentary reviewer in the Monthly Law Reporter took a more serious tone, demanding that “Mr. Horace Gray Jr., should give ‘some very particular reason’ for delaying for so long a time the publication of his volumes.” Despite concern over the the six year delay, the reviewer concluded that “Fortunately the value of legal decisions is not impaired by time.” See “Notices of New Books,” Monthly Law Reporter 444 (May 1863). For a differing point of view on the effect of a long publication delay, see the review of Volume 12, Cushing’s Reports, mentioned in fn. 17, supra.

52. Letter of Josiah Quincy to Horace Gray, February 12, 1863. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts.

53. Bent, Eulogy of Samuel Quincy, 13–14.

54. 75 Mass (9 Gray) 451. This case and other related material was also published as an offprint of Volume 9 Gray’s Reports. See, The Case of the Roxbury Flats, With a Note on the Early Government and Legislation of the Massachusetts Colony and the Title in the Sea Shore of Massachusetts; From the Ninth Volume of Gray’s Reports. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, n.d.

55. See fn. 4 supra.

56. Spector, Robert M. “Legal Historian on the United States Supreme Court: Justice Horace Gray Jr., and the Historical Method.” 12 American Journal of Legal History 181, 188 (1968). In this article Prof. Spector also analyzes some of Gray’s earlier writing, including A Legal Review of the Case of Dred Scott, as Decided by the Supreme Court, from the Law Reporter for June, 1857. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., (1857) and The Power of the Legislature to Create and Abolish Courts of Justice. Boston: G. C. Rand & Avery (1858). See 188–193.

57. The date range is confirmed in the Note by a paragraph dealing with timber and seaweed. In this paragraph Gray cited “St. 1859, c.241,” a case, Anthony v. Gifford, 84 Mass (2 Allen) 549, from the October 1861 Supreme Judicial Court term, as well as an 1821 Supreme Judicial Court case, Cohasset Proprietors v. Tower, which did not appear in print until its publication in the October 1862 issue of the Monthly Law Reporter. See 75 Mass (9 Gray) 451, 527; Monthly Law Reporter (October 1862).

58. 75 Mass (9 Gray) 451, 518. The note cited here also has a reference to another part of Quincy’s Reports, “(Vide Post 358).” That reference is to a page in the Appendix of Quincy’s Reports which includes the Notes on the Writs of Assistance written, coincidentally, by Horace Gray Jr. In addition to the Note following the City of Roxbury case, Gray added an Appendix to the City of Roxbury case, which reprinted a 1772 case, Ipswich Proprietors v. Herrick, from the Essex County Superior Court of Judicature, which involved the right to take shellfish from the flats between the high and low water marks. See Appendix, 75 Mass (9 Gray), 529.

59. Spector, “Legal Historian on the United States Supreme Court,” 187, fn. 20; 194–196.

60. Bent, Eulogy of Samuel Quincy, 14.

61. Letter of Josiah Quincy to Horace Gray, August 28, 1863. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts.

62. Civil War High Commands, 443; Bent, Eulogy of Samuel Quincy, 14–15.

63. Preface to Quincy’s Reports, iv.

64. One reviewer stated that the delay in preparing these reports was due to “. . . the inability of Chief Justice Shaw to, in consequence of the increased amount of business in the court, and the advanced period of his life, to always keep his opinions up to the demands of the reports.” “Notices of New Books,” American Law Register 384 (April 1864). This explanation does not take into account that Chief Justice Shaw authored only 22 of the 137 opinions which appear in Volume 10 of Gray’s Reports. There can be little doubt that Horace Gray’s workload and busy schedule also contributed to the delays.

65. McCaughey, Robert A., Josiah Quincy, 1772–1864: The Last Federalist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1974) 215.

66. See fn. 37 supra.

67. Williston, “Horace Gray,” in Great American Lawyers, Vol. 8, 150.

68. 91 Mass (9 Allen) 69, 72.

69. One has to wonder if Justice Metcalf, now Gray’s colleague on the bench, smiled when he read the Holbrook case.

70. “Notices of New Books: Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1761–1772 . . .” American Law Register, n.p. (July 1865).

71. Id.

72. Gray cited the case law, notes, and appendices of Quincy’s Reports in fifteen other opinions for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, starting with Drury v. Inhabitants of Natick, 92 Mass (10 Allen) 169 (1865) and finishing with O’Loughlin v. Bird, 128 Mass 600 (1880). For a list of the other cases in which Gray cited case law from Quincy’s Reports, see Coquillette, fn. 1 supra. See also Appendix 5, infra.

73. Almost certainly a reference to Quincy’s widow, Abigail. See Editor’s Note, supra.

74. Almost certainly a reference to Quincy’s father, Colonel Josiah Quincy Sr. See Editor’s Note, supra. My thanks to my learned co-editor, Neil L. York.