Bookplate of Cha: Read of New Jersey, Esq.

Book­plate on front paste­down of
Lilly, John, 18th cent.
Mod­ern entries: being a col­lec­tion of select plead­ings in the Courts of King’s Bench, Com­mon Pleas and Exche­quer. Dec­la­ra­tions, Pleas in Abate­ment and in the Bar, Repli­ca­tions, Rejoin­ders, etc. Demur­rers, issues, ver­dicts, judg­ments, forms of mak­ing up records of Nisi prius, and entring of judg­ments, etc. in most actions. Many of them drawn or per­sued by Mr. Brod­er­ick … and other learned Coun­sel. As also spe­cial assign­ments of Errors, and Writs and Pro­ceed­ings there­upon, both in the said Courts and in Par­lia­ment. With the method of suing to and revers­ing out­lawries by Writ of Error or oth­er­wise. To which is added a col­lec­tion of writs in most cases now in prac­tice, by John Lilly.
[ Lon­don] In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lin­tot, 1741. Call num­ber: (Ex) 7891.586q

“Read, Charles, lawyer, jurist, founder, was born Feb. 1, 1715. in Philadel­phia, Pa. His father, of the same name, was mayor of Philadel­phia in 1725, sher­iff of the county in 1729–31, col­lec­tor of excise in 1725 34, About 1760 he became an asso­ciate jus­tice of the supreme court of New Jer­sey, which office, as well as that of col­lec­tor, he held till the rev­o­lu­tion, act­ing for a time as chief jus­tice in 1764, He was sev­eral times mayor of Burling­ton. He was cho­sen colonel of a reg­i­ment of mili­tia in 1776. He was one of the founders of the Amer­i­can Philo­soph­i­cal Soci­ety. He died about 1780 in North Car­olina.” — Herringshaw’s National Library of Amer­i­can Biog­ra­phy (1914), p. 560.