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 find it a little hell. Compiled an published by William Whately, minister and preacher of Gods Word in Banburie in Oxfordshiere.

People / Organizations

• William Whately (Author)

Imprint

London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster-row, at the signe of the Talbot, 1619.

Publication year

1619-1619

ESTC No.

S119722

Grub Street ID

139362

Description

[12], 220 p. ; 4⁰

Note

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

The first leaf is blank.

Signatures: pi? A-2E? 2F?.

For Whately's revocation of his opinion that adultery and desertion are grounds for divorce see Ca.. S.P.D., 1619-1623, p. 253 (4 May 1621). The text in 25298 is unaltered, but Whately adds an advertisement (Ff3) that his argument was erroneous. -- STC.

Uncontrolled note

Blank from F.S. Ferguson notes