Connecticut. County Court (New Haven County), issuing body.
Published / Created:
1794-1805.
Call Number:
MssB C7615 1794 tall
Image Count:
584
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Journal of cases heard by the city of New Haven Debtors Court from February 1794 to February 1805, preceded by an alphabetical name index of parties and attorneys. Among the attorneys are David Daggett, Seth Staples, and James Hillhouse
Alternative Title:
Manuscript journal of cases heard by the New Haven Debtors Court from February 1794 to February 1805
Description:
Manuscript in English. , Pages are numbered. , Index pages X and Z are blank. , Title from typed label on spine and front fly-leaf. , Cases kept in cursive script by the court clerk Dyer White. , Text on page 1 begins: At a City Court held at New Haven and in the city & county of New Haven on the second of February of 1794., Front and back covers gilt stamped with perhaps British royal coat of arms. , Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Law Library, 2023 MssB C7615 1794 tall, Description based on print record., and Hicks classification: MssB C7615 1794 tall.
Publisher:
Dyer White
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven County. , New Haven County., and New Haven County (Conn.)
Subject (Topic):
Court records, Courts, Debtor and creditor, and History
Reasons humbly offered to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament for an act for the discharge of insolvent debtors
Description:
Caption title., Docket title: Reasons humbly offer'd to both houses of Parliament for an act for the discharge of insolvent debtors. From the prison of Ludgate., The specific reference to Prison of Ludgate suggests a date of 1715; reforms were put before the House of Commons in a Bill in May/June 1715., Not in ESTC., and With stitching holes to gutter margin. For further information, consult library staff.
Three London scenes: a man being cajoled by two prostitutes, a young man being accosted by two debt-collectors, and a physician attending a patient. In the left scene, the man stands outside a tavern with its fascia lettered "Cordials & compounds" and "Hodg[son's] best", i.e. ale brewed by George Hodgson (and subsequently Mark and Frederick Hodgson) at the Bow Brewery in London: the brewery was rebuilt and enlarged in 1821. The prostitute on the left holds his wallet concealed in her muff while the one on the right tries to steal his fobwatch. A burning gas light on the left indicates night. In the right scene, the moribund patient wearing a nightgown and nightcap sits in an armchair on casters next to the bed, while the physician (a thin elderly bald man in a black suit) looks at him intently from the next chair, and an old nurse stands nearby; medicine bottles on the mantlepiece behind
Alternative Title:
Love, law, & physic and Love, law, and physic
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Second part of title adapted from the farce by James Kenney, Love, law and physic, first performed in London in 1812., "A second state of British Museum Satires No. 14312, above the design as an additional title: SYMPTOMS OF LIFE IN LONDON--OR [cf. No. 14320]."--British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecary Shops -- Exterior.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 28th, 1821, by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Prostitutes' customers, Prostitution, Taverns (Inns), Gas street lamps, Debt, Debtor and creditor, Collecting of accounts, Physicians, Physician and patient, Patients, Nurses, Muffs, and Drugstores
