Editorial Note
The translation of a seventeenth-century manuscript court record into twentieth-century type, in a form both economical to print and easy to read, is not so simple a task as it might seem. The result of our efforts with the Burlington Court Book probably will not be wholly satisfactory to any reader of this volume. They are not to us; if we were starting anew we would do certain things differently. However, nothing, it is said, is done in vain. If the imperfections discovered in the editing of the Burlington minutes are of service to preparers of future publications of this kind, our labor on the Burlington book will be sufficiently repaid.

Historical Introduction*
Although the Burlington Court Book is the most important judicial record of proprietary West Jersey, it has never hitherto been printed. Its legislative counterpart was assembled and published nearly two centuries ago by two public-spirited West Jerseymen.

The Court Record  June  14th 1680¹
1680 The Proceedings of Court at Bur[lington]²  Thomas Olive, Daniell Wills, Robert Stacy and Mah[lon Stacy   Commissioners].