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Sinfulness and Pernicious Nature of Gaming

2015-04-03T19:47:10Z

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==by William Stith==
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Williamsburg: Printed and sold by William Hunter, 1752.

William Stith [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stith] (1707-1775) was a Virginia minister, an early American historian, and the third president of the College of William and Mary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary]. He is the namesake of the College’s Stith Hall. <ref>Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel, eds.,''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA384&lpg=PA384&dq=william+stith+the+pernicious+nature+of+gaming&source=bl&ots=dwfQ_yGI_B&sig=AD_gIPZ53lyb23I35O5xXZsb3B4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6yUcVfbfC6TbsATuuYH4AQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=william%20stith%20the%20pernicious%20nature%20of%20gaming&f=false Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary]'', (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006), 384. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>
Stith was educated at William and Mary College and Queen’s College, Oxford [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_College,_Oxford].<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=UCgSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330#v=onepage&q&f=false Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography]'', 1915 ed. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref> He published three sermons, but is most widely known for his account of the founding of Virginia in ''[[History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia|The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia]]''. The publication was not well received by Virginians, however. Thomas Jefferson found Stith’s “details often too minute to be tolerable,” but many still find the publication to be a valuable source for information about early Virginian history.<ref>Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel, eds.,''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA384&lpg=PA384&dq=william+stith+the+pernicious+nature+of+gaming&source=bl&ots=dwfQ_yGI_B&sig=AD_gIPZ53lyb23I35O5xXZsb3B4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6yUcVfbfC6TbsATuuYH4AQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=william%20stith%20the%20pernicious%20nature%20of%20gaming&f=false Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary]'', (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006), 384. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>
 
Virginia sermons addressing social and political issues were sometimes reduced to print and delivered to Virginia leaders and other readers. Four of the state sermons, published by the government, have survived. William Stith’s “The Sinfulness and Pernicious Nature of Gaming,” is one of those surviving and may be the most famous of all Virginia state sermons. In his sermon, Stith argued that gambling was damaging to the morality and economic well-being of the State, that it was a vice that contributed to unhappiness. He argued that gambling encouraged other vice, such as drunkenness and idleness, which took a labor source away from the colony. His message was clear that something needed to be done to cure what he found to be a prevalent, cultural evil. The sermon was delivered before the General Assembly in 1752 and was received with wide acclaim by both the House of Burgesses and the general public. The sermon became the fourth highest selling printed work in the colony..<ref> Jacob M. Blosser, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=7cjx1ZZ1B6wC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Pursuing Happiness: Cultural Discourse and Popular Regligion in Anglican Virginia, 1700-1770]"(PhD diss, University of South Carolina, 2006), 217-220. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>

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Sinfulness and Pernicious Nature of Gaming

2015-04-03T19:41:15Z

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Williamsburg: Printed and sold by William Hunter, 1752.

William Stith [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stith] (1707-1775) was a Virginia minister, an early American historian, and the third president of the College of William and Mary [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_%26_Mary]. He is the namesake of the College’s Stith Hall. <ref>Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel, eds.,''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA384&lpg=PA384&dq=william+stith+the+pernicious+nature+of+gaming&source=bl&ots=dwfQ_yGI_B&sig=AD_gIPZ53lyb23I35O5xXZsb3B4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6yUcVfbfC6TbsATuuYH4AQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=william%20stith%20the%20pernicious%20nature%20of%20gaming&f=false Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary]'', (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006), 384. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>
 
Stith was educated at William and Mary College and Queen’s College, Oxford [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_College,_Oxford].<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=UCgSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330#v=onepage&q&f=false Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography]'', 1915 ed. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>
 
He published three sermons, but is most widely known for his account of the founding of Virginia in ''[[History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia|The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia]]''. The publication was not well received by Virginians, however. Thomas Jefferson found Stith’s “details often too minute to be tolerable,” but many still find the publication to be a valuable source for information about early Virginian history.<ref>Joseph M. Flora and Amber Vogel, eds.,''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA384&lpg=PA384&dq=william+stith+the+pernicious+nature+of+gaming&source=bl&ots=dwfQ_yGI_B&sig=AD_gIPZ53lyb23I35O5xXZsb3B4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6yUcVfbfC6TbsATuuYH4AQ&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=william%20stith%20the%20pernicious%20nature%20of%20gaming&f=false Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary]'', (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2006), 384. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>
 
Virginia sermons addressing social and political issues were sometimes reduced to print and delivered to Virginia leaders and other readers. Four of the state sermons, published by the government, have survived. William Stith’s “The Sinfulness and Pernicious Nature of Gaming,” is one of those surviving and may be the most famous of all Virginia state sermons.<ref> Jacob M. Blosser, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=7cjx1ZZ1B6wC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Pursuing Happiness: Cultural Discourse and Popular Regligion in Anglican Virginia, 1700-1770]"(PhD diss, University of South Carolina, 2006), 217-220. Accessed April 3, 2015.</ref>
 
In his sermon, Stith argued that gambling was damaging to the morality and economic well-being of the State, that it was a vice that contributed to unhappiness. He argued that gambling encouraged other vice, such as drunkenness and idleness, which took a labor source away from the colony. His message was clear that something needed to be done to cure what he found to be a prevalent, cultural evil.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
 
The sermon was delivered before the General Assembly in 1752 and was received with wide acclaim by both the House of Burgesses and the general public. The sermon became the fourth highest selling printed work in the colony.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

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[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Treatise of the Laws of England, on the Various Branches of Conveyancing

2015-04-01T16:55:45Z

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John Perkins’ best and only known work is formally known as ''A profitable book of Mr. John Perkins, sometimes fellow of the Inner Temple’’. It covers a range of topics including grants, deeds, exchanges, and surrenders. The book focuses on land law and may have been meant as a complement to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Littleton Littleton’s] more highly esteemed Tenures. <ref> David Seipp, “Trust and Fiduciary Duty in the Early Common Law,” ‘’Boston University Law Review’’ 91 (2011):1011-1038. </ref> Specifically, Perkins deals with aspects of conveyance that Littleton did not. <ref> Ibid. </ref>
 
Despite Perkins’ abysmal reputation, the book became very popular and was widely in use many years after his death. It received qualified praise from many sources and was considered a source of legal authority. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] referred to it as being “…wittily and learnedly composed”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DqovAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt.: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law]'' (London: J. Rivington, 1777), Accessed March 6, 201.</ref> Another legal writer states that “…on account of the learning and ingenuity displayed in his Profitable Book on the laws of England, ‘’ought in general’’ to have considerable weight…”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke et al., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WnoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA33%20-%20v=onepage&q&f=false The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself]'' (London: E. and R. Brooke, 1794), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref>
 

John Perkins’s childhood is undocumented although it has been said that he was born to upper class parents and studied at Oxford. He was admitted to the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple]” about 1518 but did little to distinguish himself as a barrister from that point on. By the late 1530’s he was residing and practicing in Oxford. By this point in his life he had become mentally unstable and his behavior became erratic. In a letter written in 1537 he suggested suppressing an uprising in the north by killing women and children and raising and maintaining a contingent of archers and halberdiers at Oxford and Cambridge. A baseless accusation of treason and vices against two local abbots led to both his imprisonment and the end of his career. He died in 1545. <ref>J.H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21970 Perkins, John (d. 1545?)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press: 2004-), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref >

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
See bookplate in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PQw0AAAAIAAJ&dq=john+perkins+a+treatise+of+the+laws+of+england Google Books] Note: 14th ed.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

[[Category:Commercial Law]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Treatise of the Laws of England, on the Various Branches of Conveyancing

2015-04-01T16:46:27Z

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John Perkins’ best and only known work is formally known as ''A profitable book of Mr. John Perkins, sometimes fellow of the Inner Temple’’. It covers a range of topics including grants, deeds, exchanges, and surrenders. The book focuses on land law and may have been meant as a complement to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Littleton Littleton’s] more highly esteemed Tenures. <ref> David Seipp, “Trust and Fiduciary Duty in the Early Common Law,” ‘’Boston University Law Review’’ 91 (2011):1011-1038. </ref> Specifically, Perkins deals with aspects of conveyance that Littleton did not. <ref> Ibid. </ref>
 
Despite Perkins’ abysmal reputation, the book became very popular and was widely in use many years after his death. It received qualified praise from many sources and was considered a source of legal authority. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] referred to it as being “…wittily and learnedly composed”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DqovAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt.: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law]'' (London: J. Rivington, 1777), Accessed March 6, 201.</ref> Another legal writer states that “…on account of the learning and ingenuity displayed in his Profitable Book on the laws of England, ‘’ought in general’’ to have considerable weight…”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke et al., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WnoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA33%20-%20v=onepage&q&f=false The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself]'' (London: E. and R. Brooke, 1794), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref>
 

John Perkins’s childhood is undocumented although it has been said that he was born to upper class parents and studied at Oxford. He was admitted to the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple]” about 1518 but did little to distinguish himself as a barrister from that point on. By the late 1530’s he was residing and practicing in Oxford. By this point in his life he had become mentally unstable and his behavior became erratic. In a letter written in 1537 he suggested suppressing an uprising in the north by killing women and children and raising and maintaining a contingent of archers and halberdiers at Oxford and Cambridge. A baseless accusation of treason and vices against two local abbots led to both his imprisonment and the end of his career. He died in 1545. <ref>J.H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21970 Perkins, John (d. 1545?)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press: 2004- ), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref >

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
See bookplate in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PQw0AAAAIAAJ&dq=john+perkins+a+treatise+of+the+laws+of+england Google Books] Note: 14th ed.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

[[Category:Commercial Law]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Treatise of the Laws of England, on the Various Branches of Conveyancing

2015-04-01T16:22:41Z

Mcprendergast:

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John Perkins’ best and only known work is formally known as ‘’A profitable book of Mr. John Perkins, sometimes fellow of the Inner Temple’’. It covers a range of topics including grants, deeds, exchanges, and surrenders. The book focuses on land law and may have been meant as a complement to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Littleton Littleton’s] more highly esteemed Tenures. <ref> David Seipp, “Trust and Fiduciary Duty in the Early Common Law,” ‘’Boston University Law Review’’ 91 (2011):1011-1038. </ref> Specifically, Perkins deals with aspects of conveyance that Littleton did not. <ref> Ibid. </ref>
 
Despite Perkins’ abysmal reputation, the book became very popular and was widely in use many years after his death. It received qualified praise from many sources and was considered a source of legal authority. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] referred to it as being “…wittily and learnedly composed”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DqovAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt.: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law]'' (London: J. Rivington, 1777), Accessed March 6, 201.</ref> Another legal writer states that “…on account of the learning and ingenuity displayed in his Profitable Book on the laws of England, ‘’ought in general’’ to have considerable weight…”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke et al., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WnoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA33%20-%20v=onepage&q&f=false The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself]'' (London: E. and R. Brooke, 1794), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref>
 

John Perkins’s childhood is undocumented although it has been said that he was born to upper class parents and studied at Oxford. He was admitted to the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple]” about 1518 but did little to distinguish himself as a barrister from that point on. By the late 1530’s he was residing and practicing in Oxford. By this point in his life he had become mentally unstable and his behavior became erratic. In a letter written in 1537 he suggested suppressing an uprising in the north by killing women and children and raising and maintaining a contingent of archers and halberdiers at Oxford and Cambridge. A baseless accusation of treason and vices against two local abbots led to both his imprisonment and the end of his career. He died in 1545. <ref>J.H. Baker, "[www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21970 Perkins, John (d. 1545?)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press: 2004- ), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref >

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
See bookplate in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PQw0AAAAIAAJ&dq=john+perkins+a+treatise+of+the+laws+of+england Google Books] Note: 14th ed.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

[[Category:Commercial Law]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Treatise of the Laws of England, on the Various Branches of Conveyancing

2015-03-06T20:04:25Z

Mcprendergast:

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John Perkins’ best and only known work is formally known as ‘’A profitable book of Mr. Iohn Perkins, sometimes fellow of the Inner Temple’’. It covers a range of topics including grants, deeds, exchanges, and surrenders. The book focuses on land law and may have been meant as a complement to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Littleton Littleton’s] more highly esteemed Tenures. <ref> David Seipp, “Trust and Fiduciary Duty in the Early Common Law,” ‘’Boston University Law Review’’ 91 (2011):1011-1038. </ref> Specifically, Perkins deals with aspects of conveyance that Littleton did not. <ref> Ibid. </ref>
 
Despite Perkins’ abysmal reputation, the book became very popular and was widely in use many years after his death. It received qualified praise from many sources and was considered a source of legal authority. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] referred to it as being “…wittily and learnedly composed”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DqovAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt.: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law]'' (London: J. Rivington, 1777), Accessed March 6, 201.</ref> Another legal writer states that “…on account of the learning and ingenuity displayed in his Profitable Book on the laws of England, ‘’ought in general’’ to have considerable weight…”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke et al., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=WnoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA33%20-%20v=onepage&q&f=false The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself]'' (London: E. and R. Brooke, 1794), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref>
 

John Perkins’s childhood is undocumented although it has been said that he was born to upper class parents and studied at Oxford. He was admitted to the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple]” about 1518 but did little do distinguish himself as a barrister from that point on. By the late 1530’s he was residing and practicing in Oxford. By this point in his life he had become mentally unstable and his behavior became erratic. In a letter written in 1537 he suggested suppressing an uprising in the north by killing women and children and raising and maintaining a contingent of archers and halberdiers at Oxford and Cambridge. A baseless accusation of treason and vices against two local abbots both his imprisonment and the end of his career. He died in 1545. <ref>J.H. Baker, "[www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21970 Perkins, John (d. 1545?)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press: 2004- ), accessed March 6, 2015.</ref >

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
See bookplate in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PQw0AAAAIAAJ&dq=john+perkins+a+treatise+of+the+laws+of+england Google Books] Note: 14th ed.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

[[Category:Commercial Law]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Treatise of the Laws of England, on the Various Branches of Conveyancing

2015-03-06T18:57:50Z

Mcprendergast:

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John Perkins’ best and only known work is formally known as ‘’A profitable book of Mr. Iohn Perkins, sometimes fellow of the Inner Temple’’. It covers a range of topics including grants, deeds, exchanges, and surrenders. The book focuses on land law and may have been meant as a complement to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_de_Littleton Littleton’s] more highly esteemed Tenures. <ref> David Seipp, “Trust and Fiduciary Duty in the Early Common Law,” ‘’Boston University Law Review’’ 91 (2011):1011-1038. </ref> Specifically, Perkins deals with aspects of conveyance that Littleton did not. <ref> Ibid. </ref>
 
Despite Perkins’ abysmal reputation, the book became very popular and was widely in use many years after his death. It received qualified praise from many sources and was considered a source of legal authority. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] referred to it as being “…wittily and learnedly composed”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke, “[http://books.google.com/books?id=DqovAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ‘’ The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law’’]” (London: J. Rivington, 1777), Accessed March 6, 201.</ref> Another legal writer states that “…on account of the learning and ingenuity displayed in his Profitable Book on the laws of England, ‘’ought in general’’ to have considerable weight…”. <ref>Sir Edward Coke et al., “[http://books.google.com/books?id=WnoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA33%20-%20v=onepage&q&f=false ‘’ The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself’’ (London: E. and R. Brooke, 1794), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref>
 

John Perkins’s childhood is undocumented although it has been said that he was born to upper class parents and studied at Oxford. He was admitted to the “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple]” about 1518 but did little do distinguish himself as a barrister from that point on. By the late 1530’s he was residing and practicing in Oxford. By this point in his life he had become mentally unstable and his behavior became erratic. In a letter written in 1537 he suggested suppressing an uprising in the north by killing women and children and raising and maintaining a contingent of archers and halberdiers at Oxford and Cambridge. A baseless accusation of treason and vices against two local abbots both his imprisonment and the end of his career. He died in 1545. <ref> J.H. Baker ‘’Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’’“[www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21970]” (Oxford University Press: 2014-2015-), Accessed March 6, 2015.</ref >

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
See bookplate in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PQw0AAAAIAAJ&dq=john+perkins+a+treatise+of+the+laws+of+england Google Books] Note: 14th ed.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==

[[Category:Commercial Law]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Code de l'Humanité

2015-03-06T17:28:13Z

Mcprendergast: /* Knightley D'Anvers */

Code de l'Humanité

2015-03-05T17:34:05Z

Mcprendergast:

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<big>Code de l'Humanité, ou La Législation Universelle, Naturelle, Civile et Politique, avec l'Histoire Littéraire des plus Grands Hommes qui ont Contribué a la Perfection de ce Code.</big>
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 Yverdon: Impr. de m. de Felice, 1778 

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunato_Felice Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice] (August 24, 1723 – February 13, 1789), also known as Fortunato de Felice, was an Italian nobleman, a famed author, philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. <ref> Clorinda Donato, ed., ''The Letters of Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice to Pietro Verri''. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). </ref> He was the second [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Panzutti Conte di Panzutti], after inheriting the title from his father, Giuseppe Felipe Augusto di Panzutti. 2 de Félice was born in Rome, the oldest of six children. He was confirmed in 1733 in the parish of St. Celso e Giuliano. He studied at Rome and Naples under the Jesuits, taught by Fortunato da Brescia. 3 On May 28, 1746 he was ordained by papal dispensation. 2 Through his studies at the monastery of San Francesco in Ripa, he discovered a love of physics. There he became friends with Celestino Galiani. Later Galiani appointed de Félice chair of Physics, Mathematics, and Ancient and Modern Geography at Naples University. 1 There he befriended [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_di_Sangro Prince Raimondo di Sangro], who aided him in his translation of the physicist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arbuthnot John Arbuthnot's] works from Latin. 5 After rescuing the imprisoned Countess Panzutti, Felice fled to Bern, became a Protestant, and established a famous press at Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, in 1762. 4 He died in Yverdon-les-Bains.

De Felice published Code de l’humanité, ou La législation universelle, naturelle, civile et politique, avec l’histoire littéraire des plus grands hommes qui ont contribuéa la perfection de ce code in 1778, from his press at Yverdon. 6 It is intended to be a compilation of works detailing the universal rights of men.

2. "Genealogy and History of the De Felice Family and Its Relations." Genealogy and History of the De Felice Family and Its Relations. De-felice.org, n.d. 12 Dec. 2013
3. Baldini, Ugo. "Fortunato Da Brescia." Treccani, L'Enciclopedia Italiana. 1997.
4. Donato, Clornida. "Rewriting Heresy in the Encyclopedie D'Yverdon." Cromohs. 2002
5. Miniero, Filomena Anna Maria. "Città Del Monte." Città Del Monte. 12 Oct. 2008.
6. Félice, Fortuné-Barthélemy De. Code De L'humanité, Ou La Législation Universelle, Naturelle, Civile Et Politique, Avec L'histoire Littéraire Des plus Grands Hommes Qui Ont Contribué a La Perfection De Ce Code. Yverdon: Impr. De M. De Felice, 1778.

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Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America

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''Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America'' is a collection of acts passed at the First Session of the First Congress, containing an early printing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," "[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html],"''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010 .</ref> 143 House bills and 24 Senate bills were passed by the First Congress. <ref> Carlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, eds., ''The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.'' Vol. 4, ''Legislative Histories: Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill [HR-1 16]'' (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).</ref> The first session of the First (and longest) Congress met in New York from March 4 to September 29, 1789. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States," "[http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/63571.aspx]," Bauman Rare Books, accessed February 19, 2015.</ref> It established procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws establishing the State, War, and treasury departments. The federal judiciary was also established, as well as a tariff on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the early federal government. The major objection to the new Constitution had been the absence of a Bill of Rights, and only after both houses of Congress approved the Bill of Rights on September 25 did the last two holdout states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, agree to join the Union.<ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress,"[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html],"''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010 .</ref> It is unknown which edition Wythe owned, but it is believed to be either the New York edition, printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, or the Richmond edition, printed by Augustine Davis. <ref> New York Public Library, ''Bulletin of the New York Public Library''. (Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: New York), 3:462. </ref>

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''Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America'' is a collection of acts passed at the First Session of the First Congress, containing an early printing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," "[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html],"''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010 .</ref> 143 House bills and 24 Senate bills were passed by the First Congress. <ref> Carlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, eds., ''The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.'' Vol. 4, ''Legislative Histories: Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill [HR-1 16]'' (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).</ref> The first session of the First (and longest) Congress met in New York from March 4 to September 29, 1789. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States," "[http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/63571.aspx]," Bauman Rare Books, accessed February 19, 2015.</ref> It established procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws establishing the State, War, and treasury departments. The federal judiciary was also established, as well as a tariff on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the early federal government. The major objection to the new Constitution had been the absence of a Bill of Rights, and only after both houses of Congress approved the Bill of Rights on September 25 did the last two holdout states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, agree to join the Union.<ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress,"[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html],"''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010 .</ref> It is unknown which edition Wythe owned, but it is believed to be either the New York edition, printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, or the Richmond edition, printed by Augustine Davis. <ref> New York Public Library, ''Bulletin of the New York Public Library''. Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: New York), 3:462. </ref>

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''Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America'' is a collection of acts passed at the First Session of the First Congress, containing an early printing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," "[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html,]"''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010 .</ref> 143 House bills and 24 Senate bills were passed by the First Congress. <ref> Carlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, eds., ''The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.'' Vol. 4, ''Legislative Histories: Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill [HR-1 16]'' (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).</ref> The first session of the First (and longest) Congress met in New York from March 4 to September 29, 1789. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States," "[http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/63571.aspx,]" Bauman Rare Books, accessed February 19, 2015.</ref> It established procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws establishing the State, War, and treasury departments. The federal judiciary was also established, as well as a tariff on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the early federal government. The major objection to the new Constitution had been the absence of a Bill of Rights, and only after both houses of Congress approved the Bill of Rights on September 25 did the last two holdout states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, agree to join the Union.<ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress,"[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html,]"''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010 .</ref> It is unknown which edition Wythe owned, but it is believed to be either the New York edition, printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, or the Richmond edition, printed by Augustine Davis. <ref> New York Public Library, ''Bulletin of the New York Public Library''. Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: New York), 3:462. </ref>

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''Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America'' is a collection of acts passed at the First Session of the First Congress, containing an early printing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," ''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html.</ref> 143 House bills and 24 Senate bills were passed by the First Congress. <ref> Carlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, eds., ''The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.'' Vol. 4, ''Legislative Histories: Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill [HR-1 16]'' (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).</ref> The first session of the First (and longest) Congress met in New York from March 4 to September 29, 1789. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States," Bauman Rare Books, accessed February 19, 2015,http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/63571.aspx. </ref> It established procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws establishing the State, War, and treasury departments. The federal judiciary was also established, as well as a tariff on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the early federal government. The major objection to the new Constitution had been the absence of a Bill of Rights, and only after both houses of Congress approved the Bill of Rights on September 25 did the last two holdout states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, agree to join the Union. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," ''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html.</ref> It is unknown which edition Wythe owned, but it is believed to be either the New York edition, printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, or the Richmond edition, printed by Augustine Davis. <ref> New York Public Library, ''Bulletin of the New York Public Library''. Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: New York), 3:462. </ref>

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''Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America'' is a collection of acts passed at the First Session of the First Congress, containing an early printing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with its original 12 amendments. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," ''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html.</ref> 143 House bills and 24 Senate bills were passed by the First Congress. <ref> Carlene Bangs Bickford and Helen E. Veit, eds., ''The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.'' Vol. 4, ''Legislative Histories: Amendments to the Constitution through Foreign Officers Bill [HR-1 16]'' (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).</ref> The first session of the First (and longest) Congress met in New York from March 4 to September 29, 1789. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States," Bauman Rare Books, accessed February 19, 2015,http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/63571.aspx. </ref> It established procedures for dealing with the President, passed laws establishing the State, War, and treasury departments. The federal judiciary was also established, as well as a tariff on imports, which supplied most of the revenue of the early federal government. The major objection to the new Constitution had been the absence of a Bill of Rights, and only after both houses of Congress approved the Bill of Rights on September 25 did the last two holdout states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, agree to join the Union. <ref> "Acts Passed at a Congress," ''loc.gov'', last modified July 27, 2010, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html.</ref> It is unknown which edition Wythe owned, but it is believed to be either the New York edition, printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, or the Richmond edition, printed by Augustine Davis.

1 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr047.html
2 http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/63571.aspx
3 Bickford, Charlene Bangs and Helen E. Veit, ed. Legislative Histories, vol. 4. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1986.
4 http://books.google.com/books?id=8bcqAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 462.

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Collection of Entries

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<big>''The Clerks Guide: Leading into Three Parts''</big>
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London : Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins ... and are to be sold by George Sawbridge [and 13 others], 1670. Wythe's copy owned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rastell William Rastell] (1508–1565) was a printer and legal writer. He was born in Coventry to John and Elizabeth Rastell.<ref>J. H. Baker, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23151 Rastell, William (1508–1565)]," ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004- ), accessed February 18, 2015.</ref> Elizabeth was the sister of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More Sir Thomas More].<ref>Ibid.</ref> As a young man, William became a prominent member of More's circle.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He set up his own press in 1529, and was More's principal publisher.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Rastell ceased printing in 1534, to focus on his legal studies.<ref>Ibid.</ref> He was admitted to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%27s_Inn Lincoln's Inn] in 1532, and was called to the bar in 1539.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1544 he married Winifred Clement.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Rastell was called to the bench of Lincoln's Inn in 1546.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1549, after being elected as treasurer of the inn, he and Winifred left the country for religious reasons and moved to Leuven, in present day Belgium, until 1553. In July 1553, while in Leuven, Winifred died of a fever.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Rastell then returned to England and served for three years in parliament as member for Hindon, Ripon, and Canterbury respectively.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1555 he was made a serjeant-at-law, and the following year became standing counsel to the city of Canterbury.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Rastell was appointed as a justice of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Bench Queen's Bench] on October 27, 1558.<ref>Ibid.</ref> In 1563 he again fled to Leuven, where he died in 1565.<ref>Ibid.</ref> 
 
Rastell's ''A Collection of Entries'' was the best source of precedents of pleading and court-forms printed in the sixteenth century.<ref>Ibid.</ref> Rastell says in his preface that "This book, entitled ''A Collection of Entries'', contains the form and manner of good pleading which is a great part of the cunning of the law of England."<ref>William Rastell, ''A Collection of Entries of Declarations, Barres, Replications, Rejoynders, Issues, Verdicts, Judgements, Executions, Proces, Continuances, Essoynes, and Divers Other Matters'' (London: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins ... and are to be sold by George Sawbridge [and 13 others], 1670.</ref> It combined precedents from the manuscript collections of his grandfather Sir John More, Edward Stubbe, chief protonotary of the common pleas, and John Lucas, secondary of the King's Bench under William Roper, adding a few of his own.<ref>Baker, "Rastell, William (1508-1565)."</ref> The book was compiled in Leuven ("out of England, and lacking conference with learned men"), where the preface was written on March 28, 1564, and was published posthumously in 1566, with new editions in 1574, 1596, and 1670, the edition which George Wythe owned.

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Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible

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London: T. Parkhurst [etc.], 1696.

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Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "'Clarke’s Concordance. 12mo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. All of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin's Study<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVII.</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 7 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>, Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing) list the 1696 edition as the probable one owned by Wythe. The copy owned by the Library of Congress was rebound for Jefferson with his shelfmark and contains writings that Sowerby notes may be attributable to Wythe. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible''.

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London: T. Parkhurst [etc.], 1696.

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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "'Clarke’s Concordance. 12mo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. All of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin's Study<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVII.</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 7 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>, Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing) list the 1696 edition as the probable one owned by Wythe. The copy owned by the Library of Congress was rebound for Jefferson with his shelfmark and contains writings that Sowerby notes may be attributable to Wythe. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible''.

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Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible

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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "'Clarke’s Concordance. 12mo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. All of the Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin's Study<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVII.</ref>, [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 7 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref>, Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing) list the 1696 edition as the probable one owned by Wythe. The copy owned by the Library of Congress was rebound for Jefferson with his shelfmark and contains writings that Sowerby notes may be attributable to Wythe. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Brief Concordance to the Holy Bible''.

Palaia Diatheke Kata tous Hebdomenkonta

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Bible. Old Testament.

Cantabrigiæ: Excusum per Joannem Field, 1665.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "'Testamentum vetus LXXII. et novum. 3.v. 12mo. Cantab. 1665" This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on January 31, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1665 edition published in Cambridge based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:96 [no.1481] </ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Palaia Diatheke Kata tous Hebdomenkonta''.

==References==
<references/>

==References==

==External Links==

[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Kainēs Diathēkēs Hapanta

2015-02-11T17:49:50Z

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<big>''Tēs Kainēs Diathēkēs Hapanta = Novum Testamentum''</big>
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Bible. New Testament.

Londini: Ex officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1730.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Novum testamentum. Gr. 12mo. Lond. 1730. Tonson" This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on January 31, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing include the 1730 edition published in London based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:100 [no.1481] </ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Kainēs Diathēkēs Hapanta''.

==References==
<references/>

==References==

==External Links==

[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Kainē Diathēkē

2015-02-11T17:25:46Z

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<big>''Hē Kainē Diathēkē. Novum Testamentum''</big>
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Bible. New Testament

Londini: Excudebat G. Bowyer, Impensis Societatis Stationariorum, 1743.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Novum testamentum. Gr. 12mo. Lond. 1743. Bower" This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson may have sold it the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on February 2, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> list the 1743 edition published in London based on the Jefferson copy at the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:99-100 [no.1480].</ref> While the copy still exists, both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on February 2, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> note the copy was rebound for Jefferson with his shelfmark. As such, any possible ties to Wythe would have been removed. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Kainē Diathēkē''.

==References==
<references/>

==References==

==External Links==

[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Description and Use of Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine

2015-02-11T16:49:59Z

Mcprendergast:

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<big>''The Description and Use of Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine with the Addition of Some Philosophical Experiments and Medical Observations''</big>
==by Edward Nairne==

London: Printed for Nairne and Blunt ..., 1783.

[[Category:Science and Medicine]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

=Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library=
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Description of Nairne’s electrical machine. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1783 edition published in London based on the edition Millicent Sowerby included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:298 [no.632].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Description and Use of Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine''.

==References==
<references/>

Kaines Diathekes Apanta

2015-02-05T18:03:11Z

Mcprendergast:

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<big>'' Tes Kaines Diathekes Apanta = Novum Testamentum''</big>
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Bible. New Testament.

Londini: Impensis R. Knaplock, J. Tonson, & J. Watts. 1728

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
There is no doubt that Wythe owned this title—a copy of the 1728 edition of "Novum testamentum. Gr. 8vo. Lond." at the Library of Congress includes George Wythe's bookplate. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed "Novum Testamentum" in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold it to the Library of Congress in 1815.
Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1728 edition published in London based on the edition Millicent Sowerby included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:99 [no.1479].</ref>. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has
been unable to procure a copy of ''Kaines Diathekes Apanta''.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Essays

2015-02-05T17:37:22Z

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<big>''Essays''</big>
===by David Hume===
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Precise edition unknown.
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Hume’s essays. 1st. vol. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by Jefferson. He may have later sold it to the Library of Congress in 1815, but the volumes no longer exist to verify Wythe's prior ownership. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"] accessed on February 3, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown." The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. May, 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the first edition (1741) published in Edinburgh while admitting that we do not know which edition Wythe owned. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Essays''<ref>.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Theophrastou Charaktēres Εthikoi

2015-02-04T17:42:40Z

Mcprendergast:

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<big>''Theophrastou Charaktēres Εthikoi = Theophrasti Characteres Ethici''</big>
===by Theophrastus===
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Glasguae: Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1758.

[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Theophrasti careteres. Gr. Lat. 12mo. Foulis" This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Jefferson may have sold it the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on February 2, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> list the 1758 edition published in Glasgow based on the Jefferson copy at the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:382 [no.2152].</ref> While the copy still exists, it includes no definitive ties to Wythe. As of yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Theophrastou Charaktēres Εthikoi''.

==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
Bound in contemporary calf with blind frames to boards, rebacked retaining spines with raised bands and lettering pieces. Title page signed "Geo: Hayward, Bot. of Wm. Goldsborough 1763," "Wm. Goldsborough 1734" and "<illegible> 1704." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/2949723 William & Mary's online catalog.]
==References==
<references/>

Description and Use of Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine

2015-02-04T17:25:26Z

Mcprendergast: /* by Edward Nairne */

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<big>''The Description and Use of Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine with the Addition of Some Philosophical Experiments and Medical Observations''</big>
==by Edward Nairne==

London: Printed for Nairne and Blunt ..., 1783.

[[Category:Science and Medicine]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library=
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Description of Nairne’s electrical machine. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1783 edition published in London based on the edition Millicent Sowerby included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:298 [no.632].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Description and Use of Nairne's Patent Electrical Machine''.

==References==
<references/>

Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Named Stratioticos

2015-02-04T17:21:40Z

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<big>'' An Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Named Stratioticos: Compendiously Teaching the Science of Nombers ... as ... Requisite for the Profession of a Soldiour''</big>
===by Leonard Digges===
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At London: Imprinted by Richard Field, 1590.

[[Category:Mathematics and Engineering]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Digges’s Stratioticos. 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on February 2, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1590 edition published in London. This is also the edition Millicent Sowerby's included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:518 [no.1145].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Lab Library has been unable to obtain a copy of ''Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Named Stratioticos''.

==References==
<references/>

Scriptores Rei Rusticae

2015-02-04T17:08:44Z

Mcprendergast:

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Rei Rusticae Auctores Latini Veteres''}}
<big>''Rei Rusticae Auctores Latini Veteres, M. Cato, M. Varro, L. Columella, Palladius''</big>
===by Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, and Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella===
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Heidelberg, Germany: Ex Hier. Commelini typographio, 1595.

[[Category:Latin Literature]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "# 1. Cato, Varro, Columella et Palladius de re rustica, p 8vo." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> lists the 1595 edition published in Heidelbergae. This is also the edition Millicent Sowerby's included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:323 [no.689].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Rei Rusticae Auctores Latini Veteres''.

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
See book plate in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=fKz1MgEACAAJ&dq=Rei+Rusticae+Auctores+Latini+Veteres,+M.+Cato,+M.+Varro,+L.+Columella,+Palladius+by+Marcus+Porcius+Cato Google Books]

C. Sallustii Crispi Opera Omnia quae Extant

2015-01-29T17:36:58Z

Mcprendergast: /* Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library */

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<big>''C. Sallustii Crispi Opera Omnia quae Extant.''</big>

Londini: typis Gul. Strahan. Impensis S. Ballard, W. Innys, A. Ward, T. Osborne, T. Longman, C. Hitch, E. Wicksteed, C. Bathurst, & M. Cooper, 1746.
===by Sallust===
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
There is no doubt that Wythe owned this title—a copy of the 1746 edition of ''C. Sallustii Crispi Opera Omnia quae Extant'' at the Library of Congress includes George Wythe's bookplate. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed "Sallust. Delph. 8vo." in his [[Jefferson Inventory|inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]], noting that he kept the volume himself. He later sold it to the Library of Congress in 1815.
Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1746 edition. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''C. Sallustii Crispi Opera Omnia quae Extant''.

==References==
<references/>

==References==

==External Links==
Read this book in [https://books.google.com/books?id=4SGWnQEACAAJ&dq=C.+Sallustii+Crispi+Opera+Omnia+quae+Extant+1746 Google Books]

[[Category:Ancient History]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Xenophōntes Kyrou Paideias Biblia Oktō

2015-01-29T16:56:39Z

Mcprendergast:

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<big>''Xenophōntes Kyrou Paideias Biblia Oktō = Xenophontis De Cyri Institutione Libri Octo.''</big>
===by Xenophon===
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Oxonii, e theatro Sheldoniano, 1727.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Xenophontis Cyropaedia. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson. 4to." This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and later sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on November 19, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing and the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> list the 1727 edition published in Oxford based on the edition Millicent Sowerby included in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'',<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 1:10-11 [no.21].</ref> but, Jefferson's copy no longer exists. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Xenophōntes Kyrou Paideias Biblia Oktō''.

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [https://books.google.com/books?id=OaoNAAAAQAAJ&dq=Xenophon.+Kyrou+Paideias+1727.&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google Books]

[[Category:Ancient History]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Oeuvres d'Horace

2015-01-28T18:30:42Z

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<big>''Oeuvres d’Horace en Latin et en Francois, avec des Remarques Critiques et Historiques''</big>
===by Horace===
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Horace de Dacier. Lat. Fr. 10.v. 8vo.'' and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[John Wayles Eppes]]. According to Philip Gaskell's bibliography, the Foulis Press published Xenophon's ''Hellenica and Agesilaus'' once, in 1762.<ref>Philip Gaskell, ''A Bibliography of The Foulis Press'', 2nd ed. (Winchester, Hampshire, England : St Paul's Bibliographies, 1986), 248.</ref> Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref>. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown." As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of Dacier's edition of ''Oeuvres d’Horace''.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Latin Literature]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

John Wayles Eppes

2015-01-28T18:22:09Z

Mcprendergast: /* Wythe Books Given to Eppes by Thomas Jefferson */

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John Wayles Eppes (April 7, 1773 – September 15, 1823) was the nephew of Thomas Jefferson's wife, Martha, and the husband of Jefferson's daughter, Maria. Eppes' political career included terms as both a United States congressman and senator.<ref>Charles D. Lowery, "[http://www.anb.org/articles/03/03-00161.html Eppes, John Wayles]" in ''American National Biography Online,'' 1999-. Article published February, 2000. See also [http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/John_Wayles_Eppes John Wayles Eppes] in the [http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Thomas_Jefferson_Encyclopedia Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia].</ref> Eppes received nine titles from Wythe's library as part of Jefferson's dispersement.

==Wythe Books Given to Eppes by Thomas Jefferson==
The list below was adapted from the "[http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/2.html Library of George Wythe]" in the Thomas Jefferson Libraries project on the website for Monticello.<ref>"[http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/2.html Library of George Wythe]," Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013. For the manuscript version, see "[http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=1768 Inventory of the Books Received by Thomas Jefferson from the Estate of George Wythe, Circa September, 1806]," Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed July 2, 2013.</ref> The titles in blue link to copies in the Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]].

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|<center>J.W. Eppes.</center>
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|[[Hērodotou Halikarnasseōs Historia|Herodotus]]. 8.v. 12mo. Foulis
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|[[Xenophontos Hellenika|Xenophontis historia]]. 4.v. 8vo. Foulis
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|[[Historiōn ta Sōzomena|Polybius]]. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo.
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|[[Caii Julii Caesaris et A. Hirtii de Rebus a Caesare Gestis Commentarii|Caesar]] fol. Foul.
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|Cornelius Nepos. Lat. Eng. by Arrol. 8vo.
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|[[Homerou Iliados|Homeri Ilias]]. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis
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|     [[Homerou Odysseias|Odysseus]]. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis.
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|[[Oeuvres d’Horace|Horace de Dacier. Lat. Fr. 10.v. 8vo]].
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|[[M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae Supersunt Omnia|Ciceronis opera]]. Lat. 20.v. 16[mo?]. Foulis
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[[File:JeffersonInventoryEppes.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Detail from page two of Jefferson's inventory of books received from [[George Wythe|George Wythe's]] estate, September, 1806. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to give to John Eppes. Courtesy of the [http://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=1768 Massachusetts Historical Society].]]
|}

==See also==
*[[Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead]]
*[[Dabney Carr]]
*[[Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge]]
*[[James Dinsmore]]
*[[James Ogilvie]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[Last Will and Testament]]
*[[Martha Jefferson Randolph]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]
*[[Thomas Mann Randolph]]
*[[Wythe the Teacher]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Recipients of Wythe's Books]]

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum

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===by Marcus Tullius Cicero===

Parisiis: Apud J. B. Coignard, [etc.]; Londini: Apud P. Vaillant, 1740-1742.
 Probable edition.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Mathematiques de Bezout. 3d. & 4th. vols. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Ogilvie]], the tutor of Jefferson's grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists the third edition (1758), a quarto rather than octavo edition, based on the copy Jefferson sold to the Library of Congress.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 5:165 [no.4913].</ref> [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on January 28, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing lists the 1740-1742 edition as the "probable" edition and notes "No other edition of Cicero in nine volumes which matches the title has been located." As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Cours de Mathematiques''.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Cours de Mathematiques

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<big>''Cours de Mathematiques, a l'Usage des Gardes du Corps de la Marine''</big>
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Mathematiques de Bezout. 3d. & 4th. vols. 8vo." and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Ogilvie]], the tutor of Jefferson's grandson [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]. The precise edition owned by Wythe is unknown. The [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> lists either the 1775 or 1781-1784 editions. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on January 28, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing indicates "Precise edition unknown. Several quarto editions were published at Paris. Jefferson's copy was of the 1781 edition." As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Cours de Mathematiques''.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Mathematics and Engineering]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum

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===by Marcus Tullius Cicero===

Parisiis: Apud J. B. Coignard, [etc.]; Londini: Apud P. Vaillant, 1740-1742.
 Probable edition.

[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum

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<big>''M. Tullii Ciceronis opera cum Delectu Commentariorum''</big>
===by Marcus Tullius Cicero===

Parisiis: Apud J. B. Coignard, [etc.]; Londini: Apud P. Vaillant, 1740-1742.
 Probable edition.

[[Category:Philosophy]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

James Ogilvie

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James Ogilvie was the tutor of [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s grandson, [[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]].<ref>Endrina Tay & Jeremy Dibbell, "Reconstructing a Lost Library: George Wythe's 'Legacie' to President Thomas Jefferson, Tales from the Vault, ''Common-Place'', Jan. 2009, http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-02/tales.</ref> Jefferson gave two titles from the Wythe library to Ogilvie.

==Wythe Books Given to Ogilvie by Thomas Jefferson==
The list below was adapted from the "Library of George Wythe" in the Thomas Jefferson Libraries project on the website for Monticello.<ref>"Library of George Wythe", Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013, http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/2.html. For the manuscript version, see "Inventory of the Books Received by Thomas Jefferson from the Estate of George Wythe, Circa September, 1806", Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed July 2, 2013, http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=1768.</ref> The Wolf Law Library owns neither title at present.

[[File:JeffersonInventoryOgilvie.jpg|right|thumb|450px|Detail of page two from Jefferson's inventory of books received from [[George Wythe|George Wythe's]] estate, September, 1806. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to give to James Ogilvie. Courtesy of the [http://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=1768 Massachusetts Historical Society].]]

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|[[Cours de Mathematiques|Mathematiques de Bezout]]. 3d. & 4th. vols. 8vo.
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|[[M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera cum Delectu Commentariorum|Ciceronis opera. notis varior. 9.v. 4]]to.
|}

==See also==
==See also==
*[[Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead]]
*[[Dabney Carr]]
*[[Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge]]
*[[James Dinsmore]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[John Wayles Eppes]]
*[[Last Will and Testament]]
*[[Martha Jefferson Randolph]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]
*[[Thomas Mann Randolph]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Recipients of Wythe's Books]]

Antiquities of Athens

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<big>''The Antiquities of Athens''</big>
===by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett===
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London: J. Haberkorn, 1762-1830.

==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Stewart & Revett's Antiquities of Athens" and given by [[Thomas Jefferson]] to [[James Dinsmore]], a carpenter at Monticello. Both Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on June 28, 2013.</ref> on LibraryThing suggest Wythe only owned volume one (1762) perhaps because Jefferson only owned volume one.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 4:368 [no.4190].</ref> As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''The Antiquities of Athens''.

==References==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book at [http://books.google.com/books?id=l7R8ngEACAAJ&dq=The+Antiquities+of+Athens+1762 Google Books]

[[Category:Geography and Travel]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

James Dinsmore

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James Dinsmore (c.1771 – 1830) was an Irish joiner who worked at Monticello from 1798 to 1809.<ref>''Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia'', s.v. "[http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/James_Dinsmore James Dinsmore]," accessed July 3, 2013.</ref> When Thomas Jefferson divided Wythe's library, Dinsmore received seven titles.
==Wythe Books Given to Dinsmore by Thomas Jefferson==
The list below was adapted from the [http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/2.html "Library of George Wythe"] in the Thomas Jefferson Libraries project on the website for Monticello.<ref>"[http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/2.html Library of George Wythe]," Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013. For the manuscript version, see "[http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=1768 Inventory of the Books Received by Thomas Jefferson from the Estate of George Wythe, Circa September, 1806]," Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed July 2, 2013, .</ref> The linked titles in blue are copies in the Wolf Law Library's [[George Wythe Collection]].

[[File:JeffersonInventoryDinsmore1.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Detail from page one of Jefferson's inventory of books received from [[George Wythe|George Wythe's]] estate, September, 1806. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to give to James Dinsmore. Courtesy of the [http://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=1768 Massachusetts Historical Society].]]
[[File:JeffersonInventoryDinsmore2.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Detail from page two of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the [http://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=1768 Massachusetts Historical Society].]]

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|To James Dinsmore.
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|[[Antiquities of Athens|Stewart & Revett’s Antiquities of Athens]].
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|[[Corpus Juris Civilis|juris civilis]]. fol.
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|[[D. Justiniani Institutionum Libri Quator|[H]arris’s Justinian]]. 4to.
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|[[Arnoldi Vinnii JC. in Quatuor Libros Institutionum Imperialium|[Vi?]nnii institutiones]]. 4to.
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|[[Elements of the Civil Law|Taylor’s civil law]]. 4to.
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|[[Rights of War and Peace|Grotius]]
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|[[Of the Law of Nature And Nations|Puffendorf]].
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==See also==
*[[Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead]]
*[[Dabney Carr]]
*[[Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge]]
*[[James Ogilvie]]
*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
*[[John Wayles Eppes]]
*[[Last Will and Testament]]
*[[Martha Jefferson Randolph]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson Randolph]]
*[[Thomas Mann Randolph]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Recipients of Wythe's Books]]

Reports or Causes in Chancery

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<big>''Reports of Causes in Chancery, collected by Sir George Cary one of the Masters of the Chancery in Anno 1601''</big>
===by George Carew===
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==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Carey's reports in Chancery 16s.'' This was one of the titles kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He later sold a copy of the first edition (1650) to the Library of Congress in 1815. Both the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012, rev. 2014) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"] accessed on January 21, 2015.</ref> on LibraryThing include this edition based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:200-201 [no.1741].</ref> This volume still exists and may have been Wythe's volume, but the book includes no markings to verify Wythe's ownership. As yet, the Wolf Law Library has been unable to procure a copy of ''Reports of Causes in Chancery''.

== References ==
<references/>

==External Links==
Read this book in [https://books.google.com/books?id=TOTSMgEACAAJ&dq=George+Carew.+Reports+of+Causes+in+Chancery+1650 Google Books]

[[Category:Abridgments]]
[[Category:Case Reports]]
[[Category:Probable Surviving Wythe Volumes]]
[[Category:Titles in Wythe's Library]]

Henry Clay to B. B. Minor, 3 May 1851

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[[File:VirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Letter from Henry Clay to Benjamin Blake Minor, printed in the ''Virginia Historical Register,'' July, 1852. The letter was in response to a request for biographical material on [[George Wythe]], for Minor's "[[Memoir of the Author]]," published in Wythe's Reports (1852).]]
"[[Media:GeorgeWytheVirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.pdf|Letter from Hon. Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, Esq.]]," ''Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion'' 5, no. 3 (July 1852), 162-167.<ref>William Maxwell, ed., "[[Media:GeorgeWytheVirginiaHistoricalRegisterJuly1852.pdf|Letter from Hon. Henry Clay to B.B. Minor, Esq.]]," ''Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion'' 5, no. 3 (July 1852), 162-167.</ref>

==Article text==
===Page 162===
<blockquote><center><hr width="20%" /> '''GEORGE WYTHE.'''</center>

[We find the following letter from the late Mr. CLAY to B. B. Minor, Esq., of this city,—containing an interesting notice of the eminent patriot and judge, George Wythe, with a glance at his own early youth—in the Whig of May 18th, and readily transfer it to our more convenient pages to which it properly belongs.]

<center>LETTER FROM HON. HENRY CLAY TO B. B. MINOR, ESQ.</center>

<div align="right">ASHLAND, MAY 3, 1851.</div>

''My Dear Sir,''—I duly received your favor of the 21st ult., in which you inform me that one of the Richmond booksellers intends to publish a new edition of the Reports of the lamented Chancellor Wythe, and you express a wish that I would furnish a brief memoir of the illustrious author. It would be a most pleasing and grateful task to</blockquote>

===Page 163===
<blockquote>comply with your request, if I possessed the requisite authentic materials, and the requisite capacity to prepare the work. But the first condition does not exist, and it is therefore unnecessary to dwell upon the second. My acquaintance with the Chancellor commenced in the year 1793, in my 16th year, when I was a clerk in the office of the court over which he presided, and when I think he must have passed the age of three score years and ten. I knew nothing personally of his career at the bar, of his ancestry, or of the part which he had taken in public affairs. I understood that he was born in Elizabeth City; that he was taught the Greek letters by his mother, and afterwards, by her assistance and by his own exertions, he became an accomplished Greek scholar. How he learned the Latin language I do not remember to have heard, but probably at William and Mary college, or at some other college in Lower Virginia. When I first knew him, his right hand had become so affected with the rheumatism or gout, that it was with difficulty he could write his own name. Owing to that cause he engaged me to act as his amanuensis, and I attended him frequently, though not every day, to serve him in that capacity for several years. Upon his dictation, I wrote, I believe, all the reports of cases which it is now proposed to re-publish. I remember that it cost me a great deal of labor, not understanding a single Greek character, to write some citations from Greek authors, which he wished inserted in copies of his reports sent to Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Samuel Adams, of Boston, and to one or two other persons. I copied them by imitating each character as I found them in the original works.

Mr. Wythe was one of the purest, best, and most learned men in classical lore that I ever knew. Although I did not understand Greek, I was often highly gratified in listening to his readings in Homer's Illiad and other Greek</blockquote>

===Page 164===
<blockquote>authors, so beautifully did he pronounce the language. No one ever doubted his perfect uprightness, or questioned his great ability as a Judge. I remember an incident which occurred in my presence, which demonstrated with what scrupulous regard he avoided the possibility of any imputation upon his honor, or his impartiality. A neighbor of his, Mr. H————, who had the reputation of being a West India nabob, and who at the time had an important suit pending in the Court of Chancery, sent him a demijohn of old arrack, and an orange tree for his niece, Miss Nelson, then residing with him. When the articles were brought into Mr. Wythe's house, with the message from the donor, Mr. Wythe requested the servant to take them back to his master, and to present to him his respects, and thanks for his kind intentions, but to say that he had long ceased to make any use of arrack, and that Miss Nelson had no conservatory in which she could protect the orange tree. I was amused at another scene, which I witnessed between him and the late Justice Washington of the Supreme Court, then practising law in the city of Richmond. He called on the Chancellor with a bill of injunction in behalf of General ————, to restrain the collection of a debt. The ground of the application was, that the creditor had agreed to await the convenience of General ————, for the payment of the debt, and that it was not then convenient to pay it. The Chancellor attentively read the bill through, and deliberately folding it up, returned it to Mr. Washington, enquiring with an ineffable smile upon his countenance, "do you think, sir, that I ought to grant this injunction?" Mr. Washington blushed, and observed, that he had presented the bill at the earnest instance of his client.

Mr. Wythe's relations to the Judges of the Court of Appeals were not of the most friendly or amicable kind, as</blockquote>

===Page 165===
<blockquote>may be inferred from the tenor of his reports. Conscientiously and thoroughly convinced of the justice and equity of his decrees, he was impatient when any of them were reversed, and accordingly evinces that feeling in his reports. Mr. Pendleton, from what I have heard, and the little I knew of him, I suppose was more prompt and ready, and possessed greater powers of elocution than his great rival. Mr. Wythe's forte, as I have understood, lay in the opening of the argument of a case; in which, for thorough preparation, clearness and force, no one could excel him. He was not so fortunate in reply. Mr. Pendleton, on the contrary, was always ready, both in opening and concluding an argument, and was prompt to meet all the exigencies which would arise in the conduct of a cause in court. The consequence was, that Mr. Pendleton was oftener successful than Mr. Wythe in their struggles at the bar. On one occasion, when Mr. Wythe, being opposed to Mr. Pendleton, lost the cause, in a moment of vexation, he declared, in the presence of a friend, that he would quit the bar, go home, take orders, and enter the pulpit. You had better not do that, replied his friend, for, if you do, Mr. Pendleton will go home, take orders, and enter the pulpit too, and beat you there. Mr. Pendleton was far less learned than Mr. Wythe, but he possessed more versatile talents, was an accomplished gentleman, and better adapted to success in general society and in the busy world. Although not so finished a scholar as Mr. Wythe, he had a much more pleasing style of composition. The high consideration in which Messrs. Pendleton and Wythe were both held, was often evinced by the distinguished honors and eminent offices which they received from their parent State. It was particularly exhibited in the organization of the Convention which adopted the Constitution of the United States, when Mr. Pendleton was appointed to preside over</blockquote>

===Page 166===
<blockquote>the body, and Mr. Wythe to preside over the Committee of the Whole, which he did during, I believe, the entire sitting of the Convention--the Constitution having been considered and discussed in Committee of the Whole.

Mr. Wythe's personal appearance and his personal habits were plain, simple, and unostentatious. His countenance was full of blandness and benevolence, and I think he made, in his salutations of others, the most graceful bow that I ever witnessed. A little bent by age, he generally wore a grey coating, and when walking carried a cane. Even at this moment, after the lapse of more than half a century since I last saw him, his image is distinctly engraved on my mind. During my whole acquaintance with him, he constantly abstained from the use of all animal food.

It is painful and melancholy to reflect, that a man so pure, so upright, so virtuous, so learned, so distinguished and beloved, should have met with an unnatural death. The event did not occur until several years after I emigrated from Richmond to the State of Kentucky, and of course I am not able, from personal knowledge, to relate any of the circumstances which attended it. Of these, however, I obtained such authentic information as to leave no doubt in my mind as to the manner of its occurrence. He had a grand nephew, a youth scarcely, I believe, of mature age, to whom, by his last will and testament, written by me upon his dictation before my departure from Richmond, after emancipating his slaves, he devised the greater part of his estate. That youth poisoned him, and others,—black members of his household—by putting arsenic into a pot in which coffee was preparing for breakfast. The paper which had contained the arsenic, was found on the floor of the kitchen. The coffee having been drank by the Chancellor and his servants, the poison developed</blockquote>

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<blockquote>its usual effects. The Chancellor lived long enough to send for his neighbor, [[William DuVal|Major William Duval]], and got him to write another will for him, disinheriting the ungrateful and guilty grand nephew, and making other dispositions of his estate. An old negro woman, his cook, also died under the operation of the poison, but I believe that his other servants recovered.<ref>Lydia Broadnax, Wythe's cook, survived; Michael Brown, his young servant, died in the poisoning.</ref> After the Chancellor's death, it was discovered that the atrocious anthor [''sic''] of it had also forged bank checks in the name of his great uncle; and he was subsequently, I understood, prosecuted for the forgery, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary; but whether that was the fact or not, can be ascertained by a resort to the records of the proper criminal courts in Richmond.

I have written this hasty sketch, not as a memoir of the illustrious man of whom it treats, but for the purpose of contributing some materials, which may be wrought by more competent hands, into a biography more worthy of his great name and memory. I conclude it by an acknowledgement, demanded of me alike by justice and feelings of gratitude, that to no man was I more indebted, by his instructions, his advice, and his example, for the little intellectual improvement which I made, up to the period, when, in my 21st year, I finally left the City of Richmond.

:::::I am, with great respect,

::::::Your friend and obedient servant,

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==See also==

*[[Memoir of the Author]]

==References==
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