Publications of bachelor of civil law. William Clark

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Printed for bachelor of civil law. William Clark

  • The leverpool tragedy or, a Warning to disobedient Children & covetous parents In Five Parts. 1st. Shewing how one Mr. Robert Fuller a wealthy grasier, liviug in the town of Leverpool in Lancashire, he had 3 fair daughters, & but one son, named J. Fuller, his Fathers darling and a very hopeful youth whom he put out apprentice to a famous Surgeon in the same town & serv`d his master feithfully till his time was out and afterwards served him as a journyman for a year, till getting acquainted with a surgeons mate who perswaded him to go to sea telling him he might come to promotion which so inspired his miud that he went to his Father and told him he would go to sea and beggs his blessing Which his Father refused to give him telling him he would nevar have his blessing nor the blessing of God, if he went against his will, which he stubbornly did regardless of his Fathers Threats and intreaties. 2d How he went a voyage to sea and was in a great storm where the ship was drove on a rock. 3d. Ho. London: printed, for William Clark in the Strand, [1760?]. ESTC No. T182455. Grub Street ID 218925.

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  • Clark, bachelor of civil law. William. Decimarum & oblationum tabula. A tything table. Or, Table of tithes and oblations, according to the ecclesiastical laws and ordinances established in the Church of England, now newly-reduced into a book. Containing as well the very letter of the law under which these right be severally comprised, together with such questions of tithing, and their resolutions by the laws canon, civil, and approved doctors opinion of the same, as be ordinarily moved, and which do often prove to controversies herein. As also a brief and summary declaration of composition, transaction, custom, prescription, privilidge, and how they prevail in tithing. Annexed hereunto summarily, such statute laws of the land concerning these rights, as have been herein authorised, and now do remain in their force accordingly. To the easie and plain instructions of all the subjects ecclesiastical or lay, whether in these rights to demand them, or bounden to perform the same. Compiled by W.C. Bach. of the Civil Law. London: printed by J.T. for Andrew Crook at the Green Dragon in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1662. ESTC No. R15636. Grub Street ID 63552.