A briefe treatise of testaments and last willes, very profitable to be vnderstoode of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse delightfull, aswell for the rarenes of the worke, as for the easines of the stile, and method: compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundrie customes, aswell general as particular, not impertinent thereunto: besides diuers marginall notes, and quotations not to be neglected, especially of Iustinianists, or young students of the ciuil law: vvith two tables, the one analyticall ... the other alphabeticall ... By the industrie of Henrie Swinburn, Bachelar of the Ciuill Lawe.

People / Organizations

• Henry Swinburne (Author)

Imprint

London: Printed by Iohn Windet, 1590 [i.e. 1591]

Publication year

1591-1591

ESTC No.

S118058

Grub Street ID

137722

Description

[12], 293, [14] leaves ; 4⁰

Note

Actual publication date from colophon.

Signatures: [superscript pi]A-C? B? C-2P? 2Q? 2R-2T? [2V]1.

The first leaf is blank.

With a slip-cancel on K5r line 19.

Uncontrolled note

1591 variant is a ghost per STC addendum