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CUNNINGHAM (Timothy). A New Treatise on the Laws concerning Tithes: Containing all the Statutes, Adjudged Cases, Resolutions and Judgments relative thereto,.....1767
London: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printer's; for W. Griffin, Third Edition, corrected and enlarged; with the addition of several cases never before printed, 8vo, half-title, [4], 304, [8]pp., early ownership signature to front endpaper, contemporary calf, slight cracking to joints, raised bands, a nice copy. Timothy Cunningham (died 1789) was a London barrister, legal writer and antiquarian, thought to have been Irish. The Cunningham prize (awarded as the Cunningham Medal) of the Royal Irish Academy was founded with his legacy of £1,000: for the encouragement of learning in Ireland by the bestowal of prizes on literary or scientific works of distinguished merit.
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