An abstract of all the penal statutes which be general, in force and use : wherein is conteyned the effect of all those statutes which do threaten to the offendors thereof the losse of life, member, lands, goods, or other punishment or forfeiture whatsoeuer : whereunto is also added in their apt titles, the effect of all other statutes, wherein there is any thing materiall and necessarie for eche subject to knowe : moreouer, the aucthoritie and duetie of all iustices, sherifes, coroners, eschetors, maiors, bailiffes, customers, comptrollers of custome, stewards of leetes and liberties, aulnegers and purueyors, and what things by the letter of seuerall statutes in force they may, ought, or are compellable to doe
An abstract of English penal statutes compiled by Ferdinando Pulton and printed in London by Christopher Barker in 1586, a legal reference for justices, sheriffs and other officers. Its pictures are a decorative historiated initial A with foliage, a matching initial, a strip of interlaced ornament, and a columned table of perches and feet, offering a designer historic ornament and typographic table structure.
