A bride-bush. Or, A direction for married persons. Plainely describing the duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. By performing of which, marriage shall prooue a great helpe to such, as now for want of performing them, doe finde it a little hell. Compiled and published by William Whateley, minister and preacher of Gods Word, in Banbury in Oxford-shiere.

All titles

• A bride-bush. Or, A direction for married persons. Plainely describing the duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. By performing of which, marriage shall prooue a great helpe to such, as now for want of performing them, doe finde it a little hell. Compiled and published by William Whateley, minister and preacher of Gods Word, in Banbury in Oxford-shiere.
• Bride-bush Direction for married persons

People / Organizations

• William Whately (Author)
• Bernard Alsop ("printed by")

Imprint

London: Printed by Bernard Alsop for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Rowe, at the signe of the Talbot, 1623.

Publication year

1623

ESTC No.

S119431

Grub Street ID

139071

Description

[10], 220, [2] p. ; 4⁰

Note

An enlargement of "A bride-bush, or A wedding sermon" into a treatise.

Signatures: pi1(=[2G]2) A-E? 2F? [2G]?(-[2G]2).

The final leaf bears Whately's revocation of his opinion that adultery and desertion are grounds for divorce.

Variant: imprint has "Taulbut".