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Sir Orlando Bridgman's Precedence of Conveyances Legal Docs Book 1682 - $12,345 (downtown Naperville)
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A MUSEUM Piece, this book may be of Historical Importance as it contains legal documentation of Deeds & Instruments regarding estates, Manors, land, Mines, Annuities, Mortgages, leases, Bonds, Trusts, Covenants, Foeffment, and more, some documents may remain in effect until the mid 2600's.
Bridgman’s clients include King Charles I, Earls, Lords, Lady's, Dames, Esquires, Sirs, Viscounts, Dowagers, The Kingdom of Ireland and others.
This book was written by Sir Orlando Bridgeman's clerk Tho. Page Johnson in 1682. It was intended to be an historical account of legal Services provided by Sir Orlando Bridgeman for "persons of the greatest honour in the Kingdom".
In the book, Tho. Page Johnson dedicates to Bridgman's son, The Honourable Sir John Bridgman Baronet, “the following instruments of law, which challenge your Noble Father for their author, being all composed by his advice and direction”.
I believe this was done to give Sir John Bridgman powerful information concerning the most considerable estates in England and the Elite men of the time that were involved in the downfall of King Charles the First.
King Charles I Esteemed Sir Orlando Bridgeman and often Imployed him a Commissioner in negotiations.
A bit of History regarding Sir Orlando Bridgeman:
The following information is cited from Wikipedia
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, SL (30 January 1606 – 25 June 1674) was an English common law jurist, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause in the Civil War.
Bridgeman was the son of John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, and his wife Elizabeth Helyar, daughter of Reverend William Helyar.
Bridgeman worked as a barrister until 1632, and was named vice chamberlain of Chester in 1638. In 1640, he was appointed Attorney of the Court of Wards in 1640, and Solicitor-General to Charles, the Prince of Wales.
In April 1640, Bridgeman was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Wigan for the Long Parliament in November 1640.[2] He rallied to the royal cause and in 1642 assisted Lord Strange at Chester against the parliamentary forces. As a result, he was disabled from sitting in parliament on 29 August 1642.[3]
He was knighted by the King, Charles I, in 1643.
From 1644 to 1646, Bridgeman was Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire. In 1645, he was Commissioner at the Treaty of Uxbridge on behalf of the King.[4] He compounded for his delinquency in 1646.
On 30 May 1660, Bridgeman was made Serjeant-at-Law, and two days later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The following week, on 7 June 1660, he was created a Baronet, of Great Lever, in the County of Lancaster. From 1660 to 1668, Bridgeman was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and from 1667 to 1672 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, resigning because he refused to apply the Great Seal to the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, which he regarded as too generous to Catholics.
In 1668, he was a member of the New England Company. In his final years, Bridgeman appointed the priest, theologian, and metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne (c. 1637 – 1674) as his private chaplain at Teddington and supported the publication of his writings. Bridgeman died aged 65 in Teddington, Middlesex and was buried there.
Bridgeman was highly regarded in his time for his participation in the trial of the regicides of King Charles I in 1660, and also for devising complex legal instruments for the conveyance of estates in land. Among Bridgeman's most enduring inventions was a device for the 22nd Earl of Arundel, which led to the creation in the Duke of Norfolk's Case, 3 Ch. Ca. 1, 22. Eng. Rep. 931 (Ch. 1681), of the Rule Against Perpetuities. Following the Great Fire of London he was one of the judges appointed to resolve disputes about property arising from the fire.
In my opinion, this book is in relatively good condition considering that it is 342 years old.
The leather cover stamped with acorns, has tears, cracks and is loose in areas from the hardback, but it does not appear to be brittle. There are two loose pages without writing , one in front and one in back, there may also be one page missing in the front, but that may be the loose one, I am not sure of that.
I carefully leafed through the pages of this book, they appear to be secure in the binding. Some pages have stains, a few have small tears and some have creases, but overall they are in good condition and quite readable.
The book was printed Anno Domini MDCLXXXII by RI Atkyns & ED Atkyns Esquires for William Battersby at Thavies-Inn Gate in Holborn, and Thamas Baffet at the George near Saint Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street.
There are 382 pages + Tablet & Introduction, the dimensions are 8 1/16" x 12 5/8" x 1 1/2" thick.
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