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Complaint of Wilson Miles Cary

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	the lands adjoining containing 20' acres as men<sup>d</sup> in the said agreement, and your Orator charges that the consideration money agreed to be paid by the said George W. Fairfax to the said John Carlyle & John Dolton for the part of the Mills and Lands adjoining; was, as he hath reason to believe, shortly after paid the said John Carlyle and John Dolton in consequence of which the s<sup>d</sup> George W. Fairfax became entitled to a conveyance from the said Carlyle & Dolton of the part of the said Mills Lands and appurtenancies stipulated to be conveyed to him the said William Ramsay having as your Orator has been informed and believes, transfered all his title to the same to the said Carlyle and Dolton, and your Orator further showeth that the said John Carlyle departed from this life sometime in the year 1780 leaving one daughter the wife of W<sup>m</sup>. Herbert and one Son, having first duly made and published his last Will and testament bearing date the 5th day of April 1780, which after his death was duly proved and admitted to record in the County Court of Fairfax, a true copy of which is hereto annexed as part of this Bill, that in and by the s<sup>d</sup> Will, the said John Carlyle amongst other devices therein contained bequeathed all the rest and residue of his Estate real and Personal unto his Son George W. Carlyle but in case his		the lands adjoining containing 20' acres as men<sup>d</sup> in the said agreement, and your Orator charges that the consideration money agreed to be paid by the said George W. Fairfax to the said John Carlyle & John Dolton for the part of the Mills and Lands adjoining; was, as he hath reason to believe, shortly after paid the said John Carlyle and John Dolton in consequence of which the s<sup>d</sup> George W. Fairfax became entitled to a conveyance from the said Carlyle & Dolton of the part of the said Mills Lands and appurtenancies stipulated to be conveyed to him the said William Ramsay having as your Orator has been informed and believes, transfered all his title to the same to the said Carlyle and Dolton, and your Orator further showeth that the said John Carlyle departed from this life sometime in the year 1780 leaving one daughter the wife of W<sup>m</sup>. Herbert and one Son, having first duly made and published his last Will and testament bearing date the 5th day of April 1780, which after his death was duly proved and admitted to record in the County Court of Fairfax, a true copy of which is hereto annexed as part of this Bill, that in and by the s<sup>d</sup> Will, the said John Carlyle amongst other devices therein contained bequeathed all the rest and residue of his Estate real and Personal unto his Son George W. Carlyle but in case his
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	~~==References==~~
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	~~[[Category:Imogene E. Brown Papers]]~~
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	Right Worshipful Peter ~~Cobert?~~ Doct. of Laws, Master ~~Kuper?~~ or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; that the said George W Fairfax, of his said Will did thereby and therein appoint your Orator, and George Washington, and George Nicholas who are prayed to be made Defendants to this Bill, executors? (or exors.?) and trustees of his Estate lying in Virginia and further did in and by the said Will devise unto the said Excors.? and trustees in all his Lands lying in Virginia, not therein otherwise disposed of together with his fourth part of the Bloomery Mills and the Lands adjoining thereto and his Lotts? in Towns not otherwise disposed of and all other his Real and Personal Estate in the said State of Virginia not otherwise disposed of to sell the said real Estates for the best prices that a could be obtained, for the uses and purposes therein particularly set forth, to which will for greater certainty your Orator begs leave to refer: And your Orator further showeth that he has proved the said Will in the General? Court of this Commonwealth and hath taken upon himself the burden? of the Exe. thereof as will more fully appear by a reference to the Records of the said Court of which a certificate of probate is hereto annexed as part of this Bill your Orator further showeth that the said George Washington and George Nicholas mentioned in the said will have refused to take upon themselves the Execution of the said will or in any manner to act or intermeddle in the Estate of the said G.W. Fairfax as Exors. or Trustees; and your Orator desireous of		Right Worshipful Peter Calvert Doct. of Laws, Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; that the said George W. Fairfax, of his said Will did thereby and therein appoint your Orator, and George Washington, and George Nicholas who are prayed to be made Defendants to this Bill, executors? (or exors.?) and trustees of his Estate lying in Virginia and further did in and by the said Will devise unto the said Excors.? and trustees in all his Lands lying in Virginia, not therein otherwise disposed of together with his fourth part of the Bloomery Mills and the Lands adjoining thereto and his Lotts in Towns not otherwise disposed of and all other his Real and Personal Estate in the said State of Virginia not otherwise disposed of to sell the said real Estates for the best prices that a could be obtained, for the uses and purposes therein particularly set forth, to which will for greater certainty your Orator begs leave to refer: And your Orator further showeth that he has proved the said Will in the General? Court of this Commonwealth and hath taken upon himself the burden? of the Exe. thereof as will more fully appear by a reference to the Records of the said Court of which a certificate of probate is hereto annexed as part of this Bill your Orator further showeth that the said George Washington and George Nicholas mentioned in the said will have refused to take upon themselves the Execution of the said will or in any manner to act or intermeddle in the Estate of the said G.W. Fairfax as Exors. or Trustees; and your Orator desireous of
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			[[Category:Imogene E. Brown Papers]]
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Complaint of Wilson Miles Cary

Lktesar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:11:42 GMT

Created page with "==Document text, 16 May 1800== ===Page 1=== <blockquote> To The Honorable George Wythe Esquire Judge of the high Court of Chancery - Humbly complaining your orator Wilson M. Cary only acting Executor and trustee in Virginia of George Wm. Fairfax died sheweth unto your honor that some time in the year of our Lord _____ the said George Wm. Fairfax and a certain John Carlyle & John Dolton agreed to take up and obtain a grant for a certain Tract of land..."

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	*[[Francis Fauquier to Robert Carter, 14 July 1760]], John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg.		*[[Francis Fauquier to Robert Carter, 14 July 1760]], John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg.

	*[[~~William~~ Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen]],		*[[Thomas Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen]],

	*[[John Page to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1776]], in ''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia'', vol. 1, ''The Letters of Patrick Henry'', ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 9-11.		*[[John Page to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1776]], in ''Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia'', vol. 1, ''The Letters of Patrick Henry'', ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 9-11.

William Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen

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In this letter, a student of Wythe's writes to his parents to update them on his time studying in Williamsburg.

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Feby. 19. 1784

:My very dear Papa
:and Mamma,

The last letter I had the pleasure to receive from you was dated the 6th of Jany. The pain and mortification however, which I always feel at not hearing from you is at present considerably alleviated by the reflection that the severity of the winter rather than your forgetfulness has been the cause of your late silence. as I have found for several weeks past, that there has been no mail at all from the Northward. Very few circumstances indeed could induce the painful belief that my dear Papa or Mamma had forgotten me, so long and so sensibly have I experienced their kindness.

I am very much afraid that none of my folio letters have reached you, which (though I find you are already heartily tired of the proclivity of my letters,) I wish you to have received as they contain an account of my situation and necessities. Nothing on Brown had then or have now sent me the money you taught me to expect from them. What I shall do, unless you send me some very soon, my creditors perhaps better than I can, may be able to say. I was prevented from writing last week by some unexpected business on the morning of the past day until which time I had deferred writing. For this however I dare say you will pardon me. You tell me in your last letter what delighted me not a little, that you would be happy to see me in May. I was pleased to hear it for two reasons, because I should dread to pass the summer months here on account of the intensity of the heat and for that reason wish to come to the Northward and because the pleasure that I shall enjoy at any rate in seeing you, will be greatly enhanced by your
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participating it you ask me how I would wish to come, I answer that my desire is to come by land, and to travel in the same manner that I travelled when I came to this place, if you can prevail on my Uncle A to let me keep the horses I have here until May. if not with any horses you may please to send. This much I may mention that you are well enough acquainted with your son to know that he would prefer handsome to ugly, matched to unmatched horses.

The bill which I informed you in my last, I had attacked in its first stage, and had been committed, has been since reported without an amendment, so that it will be engrossed the next meeting, and then we are again to exert our united force to cast it into endless night. I have never known people more warmly attached to any thing, than the members of our Legislature here at first to this abominable bill. However so many of them have been converted to our opinion already, that I trust we shall be able to carry our point in the end, you shall know the count. You desired me in your last letter to inform you how I spend my time. I will now comply with your request. Before breakfast, I generally read an hour and a half, sometimes two hours in Blackstone, or else am employed in composition which by the advise of my instructions, I pay a good deal of attention to. From breakfast to dinner, I read Blackstone, Hume or Montesquieu. After dinner if I dine at home, I either walk out to see my friends, or play a piece of musick on the violin or read some entertaining book in French, or amuse myself by recurring to some favorite Roman author. Horace, Virgil and Terence I have principally attended to. At night again I very often read very attentively until 10, 11, or 12 oclock according to the subject I am reading on, or my feelings at the time. But as Mr Wythe lectures every

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:Doctor William Shippen
:Professor of Anatomy
::Philadelphia

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Tuesday, and Mr Madison every Thursday and Saturday, you must conceive that I can read very little on those days between Breakfast and dinner, asume one at College from 10 to 12, and we live very near a mile from College. The exercise which this necessarily gives one I find of the greatest service I never enjoyed so uninterrupted a state of good health in my life, as I have done since I came to Williamsburg. On those days too, where the hospitality of my acquaintences carry in me to dine abroad, I generally give myself up to mirth and jollity from dinner time to night. I was very much astonished to hear that my friends Hollingsworth and Sally Shippen were engaged, and almost as much so that he had never written person? the subject, as I had always flattered myself I shared some part of his confidence, Please to give my [damaged] to them both, and assure them of my constant [damaged] for them complete happiness union [damaged] this letter has been spun out to a [damaged] length, therefore knowing your aversion to long letters I must reserve until another time what I have yet to communicate. I bet to be remembered with great duty and affection to my dear G. Papa, sister, aunt &c and all my friends of either sense. I expect to receive very long letters from you y dear Mamma, from my good sister, from Grand papa from Hollingsworth and by my friend Washington who comes here in March.

Adieu my dear P &M the ? man has called upon me 3 times your very affect son
Thomas Lee Shippen

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I will thank you to enclose it in a letter to me unsealed. The night is very far advanced, and as I have determined to read my letter tonight, I must take leave of yore with an ardent wish that your happiness may never know an alteration.

:Doctor William Shippen Jun
:Professor of Anatomy in the
:University of Philadelphia

With the most heartfelt affection love and regard I sign myself as in truth I am your dutiful son
Thomas Lee Shippen
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William Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen

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William Lee Shippen to Dr. William Shippen

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Feby. 19. 1784

:My very dear Papa
:and Mamma,

The last letter I had the pleasure to receive from you was dated the 6th of Jany. The pain and mortification however, which I always feel at not hearing from you is at present considerably alleviated by the reflection that the severity of the winter rather than your forgetfulness has been the cause of your late silence. as I have found for several weeks past, that there has been no mail at all from the Northward. Very few circumstances indeed could induce the painful belief that my dear Papa or Mamma had forgotten me, so long and so sensibly have I experienced their kindness.

I am very much afraid that none of my folio letters have reached you, which (though I find you are already heartily tired of the proclivity of my letters,) I wish you to have received as they contain an account of my situation and necessities. Nothing on Brown had then or have now sent me the money you taught me to expect from them. What I shall do, unless you send me some very soon, my creditors perhaps better than I can, may be able to say. I was prevented from writing last week by some unexpected business on the morning of the past day until which time I had deferred writing. For this however I dare say you will pardon me. You tell me in your last letter what delighted me not a little, that you would be happy to see me in May. I was pleased to hear it for two reasons, because I should dread to pass the summer months here on account of the intensity of the heat and for that reason wish to come to the Northward and because the pleasure that I shall enjoy at any rate in seeing you, will be greatly enhanced by your
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participating it you ask me how I would wish to come, I answer that my desire is to come by land, and to travel in the same manner that I travelled when I came to this place, if you can prevail on my Uncle A to let me keep the horses I have here until May. if not with any horses you may please to send. This much I may mention that you are well enough acquainted with your son to know that he would prefer handsome to ugly, matched to unmatched horses.

The bill which I informed you in my last, I had attacked in its first stage, and had been committed, has been since reported without an amendment, so that it will be engrossed the next meeting, and then we are again to exert our united force to cast it into endless night. I have never known people more warmly attached to any thing, than the members of our Legislature here at first to this abominable bill. However so many of them have been converted to our opinion already, that I trust we shall be able to carry our point in the end, you shall know the count. You desired me in your last letter to inform you how I spend my time. I will now comply with your request. Before breakfast, I generally read an hour and a half, sometimes two hours in Blackstone, or else am employed in composition which by the advise of my instructions, I pay a good deal of attention to. From breakfast to dinner, I read Blackstone, Hume or Montesquieu. After dinner if I dine at home, I either walk out to see my friends, or play a piece of musick on the violin or read some entertaining book in French, or amuse myself by recurring to some favorite Roman author. Horace, Virgil and Terence I have principally attended to. At night again I very often read very attentively until 10, 11, or 12 oclock according to the subject I am reading on, or my feelings at the time. But as Mr Wythe lectures every

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:Doctor William Shippen
:Professor of Anatomy
::Philadelphia

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Tuesday, and Mr Madison every Thursday and Saturday, you must conceive that I can read very little on those days between Breakfast and dinner, asume one at College from 10 to 12, and we live very near a mile from College. The exercise which this necessarily gives one I find of the greatest service I never enjoyed so uninterrupted a state of good health in my life, as I have done since I came to Williamsburg. On those days too, where the hospitality of my acquaintences carry in me to dine abroad, I generally give myself up to mirth and jollity from dinner time to night. I was very much astonished to hear that my friends Hollingsworth and Sally Shippen were engaged, and almost as much so that he had never written person? the subject, as I had always flattered myself I shared some part of his confidence, Please to give my [damaged] to them both, and assure them of my constant [damaged] for them complete happiness union [damaged] this letter has been spun out to a [damaged] length, therefore knowing your aversion to long letters I must reserve until another time what I have yet to communicate. I bet to be remembered with great duty and affection to my dear G. Papa, sister, aunt &c and all my friends of either sense. I expect to receive very long letters from you y dear Mamma, from my good sister, from Grand papa from Hollingsworth and by my friend Washington who comes here in March.

Adieu my dear P &M the ? man has called upon me 3 times your very affect son
Thomas Lee Shippen

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I will thank you to enclose it in a letter to me unsealed. The night is very far advanced, and as I have determined to read my letter tonight, I must take leave of yore with an ardent wish that your happiness may never know an alteration.

:Doctor William Shippen Jun
:Professor of Anatomy in the
:University of Philadelphia

With the most heartfelt affection love and regard I sign myself as in truth I am your dutiful son
Thomas Lee Shippen
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Homērou Odysseia

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Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

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	==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==		==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
	Wythe definitely owned this title—a copy of the 1750 Oxford edition at the [https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/john-d-rockefeller-jr-library/ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library] at Colonial Williamsburg includes [[George Wythe's bookplate\|his bookplate]]. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed it in the [[Jefferson Inventory\|inventory]] he made of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Odysseus. Gr. Oxon. 8<sup>vo</sup>." in the section of titles he kept for himself. Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023) Microsoft Word document (on file at the Wolf Law Library, William & Mary Law School).</ref> includes this edition with an explanatory note about the book's condition.<ref>"The original copy in Colonial Williamsburg's Library has Wythe's engraved bookplate, but it had been rebound in the twentieth century with the Wythe bookplate pasted down inside of the front board. There are no other Wythe markings in the work, neither are there any Jefferson markings in the book, which is a pattern for many of the Wythe books inherited by Jefferson in 1806." Brown, ''The Library of George Wythe''.</ref> Similarly, [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 July 11, 2025</ref> on LibraryThing refers to the copy at Colonial Williamsburg in ~~it's~~ entry for this title. The Wolf Law Library has been unable to find a copy of this edition of Homer's ''Odyssey''.		Wythe definitely owned this title—a copy of the 1750 Oxford edition at the [https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/john-d-rockefeller-jr-library/ John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library] at Colonial Williamsburg includes [[George Wythe's bookplate\|his bookplate]]. [[Thomas Jefferson]] also listed it in the [[Jefferson Inventory\|inventory]] he made of [[Wythe's Library]] as "Homeri Odysseus. Gr. Oxon. 8<sup>vo</sup>." in the section of titles he kept for himself. Brown's Bibliography<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, 2009, rev. 2023) Microsoft Word document (on file at the Wolf Law Library, William & Mary Law School).</ref> includes this edition with an explanatory note about the book's condition.<ref>"The original copy in Colonial Williamsburg's Library has Wythe's engraved bookplate, but it had been rebound in the twentieth century with the Wythe bookplate pasted down inside of the front board. There are no other Wythe markings in the work, neither are there any Jefferson markings in the book, which is a pattern for many of the Wythe books inherited by Jefferson in 1806." Brown, ''The Library of George Wythe''.</ref> Similarly, [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 July 11, 2025</ref> on LibraryThing refers to the copy at Colonial Williamsburg in its entry for this title. The Wolf Law Library has been unable to find a copy of this edition of Homer's ''Odyssey''.

	==See also==		==See also==

Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, De Arte Poetica

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Wythe to Richard Henry Lee, 18 October 1777

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	[[George Wythe]] asked [[Wikipedia:Richard Henry Lee\|Richard Henry Lee]] to send his opinions on taxation, a topic that Wythe said would likely be discussed in the upcoming session of the Continental Congress. He asked Lee to send the Maryland act and said that if Lee were to look at it and provide his own observations, it would be a great help.		[[George Wythe]] asked [[Wikipedia:Richard Henry Lee\|Richard Henry Lee]] to send his opinions on taxation, a topic that Wythe said would likely be discussed in the upcoming session of the Continental Congress. He asked Lee to send the Maryland act and said that if Lee were to look at it and provide his own observations, it would be a great help.
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	~~Williamsburg, 18th October,~~

	~~Well I know~~, ~~sir, how much~~ of ~~your time is taken up in~~ the important duties of your station, nor do I wish to interrupt you, even so long, as it would require, to answer a letter from me, unless you think you cannot be better employed. This I write chiefly to remind you, how acceptable a line from you will be; and further, that I would very gladly be acquainted with your sentiments upon taxation, a topic which we expect at the approaching session will be copiously discussed. When you were so obliging as to send me the Maryland act, you had not considered it, perhaps you may have since had leisure to do so, and if you have, I need not tell you, what advantage may be derived from your observations. I am, dear sir, your obedient,		===Page 1===
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			:Geo: Wythe

			:Hon Richard Henry Lee,
			:member of the continental congress
			:now at York
			:Pennsylvania


			:Oct 1777
			:Hon Mr Whythe
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			Williamsburg 10 October

	~~Richard Henry Lee~~, ~~Member~~ of the ~~<br />~~		Well I know, for, how much of your time is taken up in the important duties of your station, nor do I rush to interrupt you even so long as it would require to answer a teller from me, unless you think you cannot be better employed. This I write chiefly to remind you how acceptable a line ? from you will be, and further that I would very fondly be acquainted with your sentiments upon taxation, a topic which we expect at the approaching session will be expressly? discussed. When you were so obliging as to send me the Maryland act you had not considered it. Perhaps you may have since had leisure to do so; and if you have, I need not tell you what advantage may be derived from your obwervations. I am
	~~Continental Congress~~, ~~now at York~~, ~~<br />~~		::::::Dear Sir,
	~~Pennsylvania~~		::::::::Your obedient,
			::::::::::G.Wythe
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Wythe to Richard Henry Lee, 10 October 1777

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	Well I know, for, how much of your hurrie? is taken up in the important duties of your station, nor do I rush to interrupt you even so long as it would require to answer a teller from me, unless you think you cannot be better employed. This I write chiefly to remind you how acceptable a line ? from you will be, and further that I would very fondly be acquainted with your sentiments upon taxation, a topic which we expect at the approaching session will be expressly? discussed. When you were so obliging as to send me the Maryland act you had not considered it. Perhaps you may have since had leisure to do so; and if you have, I need not tell you what advantage may be derived from your obwervations. I am		Well I know, for, how much of your hurrie? is taken up in the important duties of your station, nor do I rush to interrupt you even so long as it would require to answer a teller from me, unless you think you cannot be better employed. This I write chiefly to remind you how acceptable a line ? from you will be, and further that I would very fondly be acquainted with your sentiments upon taxation, a topic which we expect at the approaching session will be expressly? discussed. When you were so obliging as to send me the Maryland act you had not considered it. Perhaps you may have since had leisure to do so; and if you have, I need not tell you what advantage may be derived from your obwervations. I am
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			==See also==
			*[[Wythe to Richard Henry Lee, 24 August 1777]]
			*[[Wythe to Richard Henry Lee, 18 October 1777]]

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Wythe to Richard Henry Lee, 10 October 1777

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Created page with "George Wythe is writing to Richard Henry Lee to hear about his opinions on taxation. ==Letter text== ===Page 1=== <blockquote> :Geo: Wythe :Hon Richard Henry Lee, :member of the continental congress :now at York :Pennsylvania :Oct 1777 :Hon Mr Whythe </blockquote> ===Page 2=== <blockquote> Williamsburg 10 October Well I know, for, how much of your hurrie? is taken up in the important duties of your station, nor do I rush to interrupt you even so long as it..."

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[[George Wythe]] is writing to Richard Henry Lee to hear about his opinions on taxation.

==Letter text==

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:Geo: Wythe

:Hon Richard Henry Lee,
:member of the continental congress
:now at York
:Pennsylvania

:Oct 1777
:Hon Mr Whythe
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Williamsburg 10 October
Well I know, for, how much of your hurrie? is taken up in the important duties of your station, nor do I rush to interrupt you even so long as it would require to answer a teller from me, unless you think you cannot be better employed. This I write chiefly to remind you how acceptable a line ? from you will be, and further that I would very fondly be acquainted with your sentiments upon taxation, a topic which we expect at the approaching session will be expressly? discussed. When you were so obliging as to send me the Maryland act you had not considered it. Perhaps you may have since had leisure to do so; and if you have, I need not tell you what advantage may be derived from your obwervations. I am
::::::Dear Sir,
::::::::Your obedient,
::::::::::G.Wythe
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Wythe to John Norton, 17 June 1772

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Wythe to Alexander Donald, 4 April 1789

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Wythe's Opinion on Nathan's Case

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	Notwithstanding those, to whom the Bills were drawn immediately payable, could not have been intitled to more than the value received for them; I think that Mr. Nathan, the indorsee, if he were not privy to that transaction, and actually paid cash, or an equivalent, or them at bar, when he took them up, may equitably or well as legaly insist upon the assumpsit: because the Terms of the contract between the drawers and original holders not appearing in the Bills as I suppose it could bind only themselves, and such as had notice of the Terms; -- and the contract between him and the drawer was entered into without any deception which could make it unfair, on her hand.		Notwithstanding those, to whom the Bills were drawn immediately payable, could not have been intitled to more than the value received for them; I think that Mr. Nathan, the indorsee, if he were not privy to that transaction, and actually paid cash, or an equivalent, or them at bar, when he took them up, may equitably or well as legaly insist upon the assumpsit: because the Terms of the contract between the drawers and original holders not appearing in the Bills as I suppose it could bind only themselves, and such as had notice of the Terms; -- and the contract between him and the drawer was entered into without any deception which could make it unfair, on her hand.


	If he were not privy to the contract between the drawers and original holders, and had not mentioned any Thing of what he paid for the Bills. he might have been irreprehensible.		If he were not privy to the
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			contract between the drawers and original holders, and had not mentioned any Thing of what he paid for the Bills. he might have been irreprehensible.


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	If he knew of the contract between the drawer and original holders as he did not mention it to the Executive, altho' what he said of taking them up at bar be true, it seems a disputable question, whether there can be any relief -- it would be going too far to say, that in every bargain one party should disclose to the other whatever the former knows, and it is the interest of the latter to know -- a total silence, if the dealing in other respects be fair, may be innocent: but if one disclose part only of what he knows, and, concealing the rest, by that means, gain an unscionable advantage, this seems a culpable suppression of the truth; because the other party confided in him, and that confidence was abused by not relating the whole truth. Frivolous as this might appear in a matter of light moment; in this case where I suspect the fain to have been enormous, and suppose Mr. Nathan to have been well appraised of the difference between paper Bills the only Money which inculated in this Commonwealth, and gold and silver. I think if a good foundation for controverting his demand.		If he knew of the contract between the drawer and original holders as he did not mention it to the Executive, altho' what he said of taking them up at bar be true, it seems a disputable question, whether there can be any
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			relief -- it would be going too far to say, that in every bargain one party should disclose to the other whatever the former knows, and it is the interest of the latter to know -- a total silence, if the dealing in other respects be fair, may be innocent: but if one disclose part only of what he knows, and, concealing the rest, by that means, gain an unscionable advantage, this seems a culpable suppression of the truth; because the other party confided in him, and that confidence was abused by not relating the whole truth. Frivolous as this might appear in a matter of light moment; in this case where I suspect the fain to have been enormous, and suppose Mr. Nathan to have been
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			well appraised of the difference between paper Bills the only Money which inculated in this Commonwealth, and gold and silver. I think if a good foundation for controverting his demand.


	G. Wythe.		:G. Wythe.
			:Williamsburg
			:9th March
			:1781

	~~Williamsburg~~

	~~9th March~~		:Mr. Wythe's
			:opinion on
	~~1781~~		:Nathans Case


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Wythe to John Norton, 17 June 1772

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 [[George Wythe]] thanks John Norton for sending him a business estimate, but informs him he cannot afford most of what is mentioned. He also shares with Norton that Norton's son, John Hatley Norton, visited him recently.
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Wythe to Alexander Donald, 4 April 1789

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	your most obedient serv.		your most obedient serv.

	G. Wythe		G. Wythe,

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			1789.

	I do not know that i shall have occasion to use the money before i see you in may.		I do not know that i shall have occasion to use the money before i see you in may.

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			Alexander Donald, esq;

			Richmond


			Williamsburg

			14th April 1789

			George Wythe

			Ansd

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	==See also==		==See also==

True Christian Religion

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	==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==		==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
	Bound in contemporary tree leather, vol. 2 rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Spines feature gilt double-ruled compartments and red morocco labels with gilt lettering and decorative flourishes. Title page of volume one signed "Seth Washburn.~~" Rear free endpaper~~ of ~~volume one includes~~ the ~~initialsPurchased~~ from G.S. MacManus Company with the [[:Category:George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund\|George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund]].		Bound in contemporary tree leather, vol. 2 rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Spines feature gilt double-ruled compartments and red morocco labels with gilt lettering and decorative flourishes. Title page of volume one signed "Seth Washburn," a prominent Swedenborgian from Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Pastedowns of both volumes show residue, possibly an adhesive used to attach papers within the volumes. Purchased from G.S. MacManus Company with the [[:Category:George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund\|George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund]].

	Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72177720336224652/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/v4pjr1/alma991034770780203196 William & Mary's online catalog.]		Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72177720336224652/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/v4pjr1/alma991034770780203196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Title page from volume one of Emmanuel Swedenborg's ''True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church''. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market-Street, 1789.

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	}}[[wikipedia:Emanuel Swedenborg\|Emanuel Swedenborg]] (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish scientist and theologian. In the year 1719, his family was ennobled by the Swedish queen, and the family name changed from Swedberg to Swedenborg.<ref>Elizabeth Foote-Smith and Timothy J. Smith, “Emanuel Swedenborg,” Epilepsia 37, no. 2 (1996): 211.</ref> Following a prolific career in the natural sciences and engineering, Swedenborg began having religious visions. Modern scientists postulate that these episodes were the product of epileptic seizures.<ref> Foote-Smith and Smith, “Emanuel Swedenborg,” 212.</ref> Nonetheless, while he was always a spiritual person, these visions elicited a crisis which drove Swedenborg into a more mystical phase. During the last 28 years of his life, beginning at age 57, Swedenborg published 18 works on Christian theology, believing that Christ had appointed him to reform Christianity.<ref>Alexander James Grieve, [https://archive.org/details/Encyclopaediabri26chisrich_201303/page/n243/mode/2up\|"Swedenborg, Emanuel."] ''Encyclopædia Britannica,'' vol. 26, Hugh Chisholm, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911), 221-223.</ref>		}}[[wikipedia:Emanuel Swedenborg\|Emanuel Swedenborg]] (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish scientist and theologian. In the year 1719, his family was ennobled by the Swedish queen, and the family name changed from Swedberg to Swedenborg.<ref>Elizabeth Foote-Smith and Timothy J. Smith, “Emanuel Swedenborg,” Epilepsia 37, no. 2 (1996): 211.</ref> Following a prolific career in the natural sciences and engineering, Swedenborg began having religious visions. Modern scientists postulate that these episodes were the product of epileptic seizures.<ref> Foote-Smith and Smith, “Emanuel Swedenborg,” 212.</ref> Nonetheless, while he was always a spiritual person, these visions elicited a crisis which drove Swedenborg into a more mystical phase. During the last 28 years of his life, beginning at age 57, Swedenborg published 18 works on Christian theology, believing that Christ had appointed him to reform Christianity.<ref>Alexander James Grieve, [https://archive.org/details/Encyclopaediabri26chisrich_201303/page/n243/mode/2up\|"Swedenborg, Emanuel."] ''Encyclopædia Britannica,'' vol. 26, Hugh Chisholm, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911), 221-223.</ref>

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	==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==		==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
	Bound in contemporary tree leather, vol. 2 rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Spines feature gilt double-ruled compartments and red morocco labels with gilt lettering and decorative flourishes. Title page of volume one signed "Seth Washburn." ~~Purchased~~ from G.S. MacManus Company with the [[:Category:George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund\|George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund]].		Bound in contemporary tree leather, vol. 2 rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Spines feature gilt double-ruled compartments and red morocco labels with gilt lettering and decorative flourishes. Title page of volume one signed "Seth Washburn." Rear free endpaper of volume one includes the initialsPurchased from G.S. MacManus Company with the [[:Category:George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund\|George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund]].

	Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/~~72157637875903244~~ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/v4pjr1/alma991034770780203196 William & Mary's online catalog.]		Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72177720336224652/ available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/v4pjr1/alma991034770780203196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

	==See also==		==See also==

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Lktesar uploaded File:SwedenborgTrueChristianReligion1789V1 Title.jpg Title page from volume one of Emmanuel Swedenborg's ''True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church''. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market-Street, 1789. Category: Title Pages

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True Christian Religion

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	Wythe [[Wythe to Robert Carter, 17 October 1792\|replied in October, 1792]], thanking Carter for the books and stating, he wished "I had power to remunerate your beneficence by sending books to you which would do to you no less good than those handed to me by Mr. Dawson ought in your opinion to do to me."<ref>[[Wythe to Robert Carter, 17 October 1792\|George Wythe to Robert Carter, October 17, 1792]], in Library & Archives, Maine Historical Society.</ref> Swedenborg's works do not appear in [[Jefferson Inventory\|Thomas Jefferson's inventory of books]] received from Wythe's estate after his death in 1806. Wythe may not have kept the four books gifted from Carter, giving them away or otherwise disposing of them. ~~To date,~~ the Wolf Law Library ~~has been unable to locate a~~ copy of ''~~True Christian Religion~~.''		Wythe [[Wythe to Robert Carter, 17 October 1792\|replied in October, 1792]], thanking Carter for the books and stating, he wished "I had power to remunerate your beneficence by sending books to you which would do to you no less good than those handed to me by Mr. Dawson ought in your opinion to do to me."<ref>[[Wythe to Robert Carter, 17 October 1792\|George Wythe to Robert Carter, October 17, 1792]], in Library & Archives, Maine Historical Society.</ref> Swedenborg's works do not appear in [[Jefferson Inventory\|Thomas Jefferson's inventory of books]] received from Wythe's estate after his death in 1806. Wythe may not have kept the four books gifted from Carter, giving them away or otherwise disposing of them.

			==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
			Bound in contemporary tree leather, vol. 2 rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Spines feature gilt double-ruled compartments and red morocco labels with gilt lettering and decorative flourishes. Title page of volume one signed "Seth Washburn." Purchased from G.S. MacManus Company with the [[:Category:George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund\|George Wythe Boswell-Caracci Room Acquisition Fund]].

			Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637875903244 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://catalog.libraries.wm.edu/permalink/01COWM_INST/v4pjr1/alma991034770780203196 William & Mary's online catalog.]

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Syme v. Johnston

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	===The Court's Decision===		===The Court's Decision===

	In October 1789, Chancellor Wythe decreed: ~~“ The~~ Court is of opinion, not only that in the sale of the College lots mentioned in the proceedings, the defendants do not appear to have been guilty of any concealment or other malversation, for which the contract ought to be avoided; but that the plaintiff, after notice, as seemeth to the Court, of what he allegeth to have been concealed from him, and after his title to the said lots might be and were offered to be confirmed to him, had the less just pretense to apply for relief. The Court doth, therefore order, adjudge and decree, that the injunction obtained by the plaintiff be dissolved, and his bill dismissed, and that he pay unto the defendants their costs… [and] the Court doth further order, that the assigned leases, and two papers subscribed by the President and Professor of William and Mary College, which are among the exhibits, be delivered the plaintiff if he accept them.” The Court of Appeals affirmed the decree.		In October 1789, Chancellor Wythe decreed: “The Court is of opinion, not only that in the sale of the College lots mentioned in the proceedings, the defendants do not appear to have been guilty of any concealment or other malversation, for which the contract ought to be avoided; but that the plaintiff, after notice, as seemeth to the Court, of what he allegeth to have been concealed from him, and after his title to the said lots might be and were offered to be confirmed to him, had the less just pretense to apply for relief. The Court doth, therefore order, adjudge and decree, that the injunction obtained by the plaintiff be dissolved, and his bill dismissed, and that he pay unto the defendants their costs… [and] the Court doth further order, that the assigned leases, and two papers subscribed by the President and Professor of William and Mary College, which are among the exhibits, be delivered the plaintiff if he accept them.” The Court of Appeals affirmed the decree.

	==See also==		==See also==

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	[[Media:CallsReports1854V3SymevJohnston.pdf\|''Syme v. Johnston'']], 7 Va. (3 Call) 482 (1790),<ref>Daniel Call, ''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia,'' 3rd ed., ed. Lucian Minor (Richmond: A. Morris, 1854), 3:482. [[George Wythe]] owned the [[Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia\|first edition]] of this set.</ref> was a case involving .

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[[Media:CallsReports1854V3SymevJohnston.pdf|''Syme v. Johnston'']], 7 Va. (3 Call) 482 (1790),<ref>Daniel Call, ''Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia,'' 3rd ed., ed. Lucian Minor (Richmond: A. Morris, 1854), 3:482. [[George Wythe]] owned the [[Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia|first edition]] of this set.</ref> was a case involving .

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==Background==

Richard Johnston and Harry Gaines leased several lots of land together from the College of William & Mary. To equally divide the land between Richard and Harry, it became necessary to divide one lot called C.E. Richard and Harry requested the President and Masters of the college for a lease for each section of C.E. However, the College refuses since it was their rule not to divide the land. The College compromised with the pair by selling the land to one and allowing them to divide the land as they pleased. Richard and Harry agreed and a lease was given to Richard Johnston.

===The Court's Decision===

In October 1789, Chancellor Wythe decreed: “ The Court is of opinion, not only that in the sale of the College lots mentioned in the proceedings, the defendants do not appear to have been guilty of any concealment or other malversation, for which the contract ought to be avoided; but that the plaintiff, after notice, as seemeth to the Court, of what he allegeth to have been concealed from him, and after his title to the said lots might be and were offered to be confirmed to him, had the less just pretense to apply for relief. The Court doth, therefore order, adjudge and decree, that the injunction obtained by the plaintiff be dissolved, and his bill dismissed, and that he pay unto the defendants their costs… [and] the Court doth further order, that the assigned leases, and two papers subscribed by the President and Professor of William and Mary College, which are among the exhibits, be delivered the plaintiff if he accept them.” The Court of Appeals affirmed the decree.

==See also==

*[[Wythe's Judicial Career]]

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Stockton v. Cook

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	John Stockton purchased a tract of land from William and John Roberts. At the time of the sale, William and John assured in their purchase agreement that the land was “clear of any fraud or deceit… [and] free and clear… from all manner of encumbrances.” To purchase the land, John Stockton advertised his bond to which Harman Cook bought it for 5. However, a previous mortgage for £64 British debt remained on the land at the time of sale. John sued in the High Court of Chancery to be relieved from £52 he used to purchase land. John argued that because the sellers of the land were fraudulent he should be released from any obligation to repay the purchase price. Two witnesses testified that John Stockton was aware of the mortgage prior to purchase.		John Stockton purchased a tract of land from William and John Roberts. At the time of the sale, William and John assured in their purchase agreement that the land was “clear of any fraud or deceit… [and] free and clear… from all manner of encumbrances.” To purchase the land, John Stockton advertised his bond to which Harman Cook bought for £5. However, a previous mortgage for £64 British debt remained on the land at the time of sale. John sued in the High Court of Chancery to be relieved from £52 he used to purchase land. John argued that because the sellers of the land were fraudulent he should be released from any obligation to repay the purchase price. Two witnesses testified that John Stockton was aware of the mortgage prior to purchase.

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	On September 21, 1803, Chancellor Wythe dismissed the case. However, in October Stockton filed a bill of review and requested Wythe reevaluate the case based on new facts. Chancellor Wythe found no reason to alter his decree and reaffirmed his prior decree. The Court of Appeals reversed the case and ~~continued~~ the injunction. In his dissent, Judge Fleming agreed with Chancellor Wythe in that Stockton’s prayer for relief did not have an equitable remedy. Judge Fleming stated “Whenever I have the misfortune to differ in opinion form the majority of the Court, I feel great dissidence in my own judgment; though in the case before us, I have the consolation to reflect that I concur with the venerable Judge who pronounced the decree, and is now no more.”		On September 21, 1803, Chancellor Wythe dismissed the case. However, in October Stockton filed a bill of review and requested Wythe reevaluate the case based on new facts. Chancellor Wythe found no reason to alter his decree and reaffirmed his prior decree. The Court of Appeals reversed the case and made the injunction perpetual.

			In his dissent, Judge Fleming agreed with Chancellor Wythe in that Stockton’s prayer for relief did not have an equitable remedy. Judge Fleming stated “Whenever I have the misfortune to differ in opinion form the majority of the Court, I feel great dissidence in my own judgment; though in the case before us, I have the consolation to reflect that I concur with the venerable Judge who pronounced the decree, and is now no more.”

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	[[File:DionysiusDionysiouHalikarnasseos1728Spine.jpg\|35px\|bottom\|link=Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn\|Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn]]		[[File:DionysiusDionysiouHalikarnasseos1728Spine.jpg\|35px\|bottom\|link=Dionysiou Halikarnasseōs Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn\|Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Peri Syntheseōs Onomatōn]]
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	==Titles on this shelf==		==Titles on this shelf==
	*''[[Antōninou Liberalis Metamorphōseōn Synagōgē\|Antōninou Liberalis Metamorphōseōn Synagōgē = Antonini Liberalis Transformationum Congeries]]''
	*''[[Appianou Alexandreōs Rōmaika\|Appianou Alexandreōs Rōmaika = Appiani Alexandrini Romanarum Historiarum]]''
	*''[[Aristophanis Comoediae (1783)]]''		*''[[Aristophanis Comoediae (1783)]]''
	*''[[Biōnos tou Smyrnaiou, kai Moschou tou Syrakosiou, ta Sōzomena\|Biōnos tou Smyrnaiou, kai Moschou tou Syrakosiou, ta Sōzomena = Bionis Smyrnæl, et Moschi Syracusani, quæ Supersunt]]''		*''[[Biōnos tou Smyrnaiou, kai Moschou tou Syrakosiou, ta Sōzomena\|Biōnos tou Smyrnaiou, kai Moschou tou Syrakosiou, ta Sōzomena = Bionis Smyrnæl, et Moschi Syracusani, quæ Supersunt]]''

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	[[File:LiturgiaSeuLiberPrecumCommunium1744 Spine.jpg\|43px\|bottom\|link=Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium\|Book of Common Prayer in Latin]]		[[File:LiturgiaSeuLiberPrecumCommunium1744 Spine.jpg\|43px\|bottom\|link=Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium\|Book of Common Prayer in Latin]]
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	*''[[Biblos tēs Dēmosias Euchēs]]''		*''[[Biblos tēs Dēmosias Euchēs]]''
	*''[[Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium\|Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium, et Administrationis Sacramentorum]]''		*''[[Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium\|Liturgia: Seu Liber Precum Communium, et Administrationis Sacramentorum]]''
			*''[[True Christian Religion\|True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church]]''
	*''[[Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips\|An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips]]''		*''[[Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips\|An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips]]''
	*''[[Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius]]''		*''[[Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius]]''

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