The contentes of this booke : Fyrst the booke for a justice of peace. The boke that teacheth to kepe a courte baron, or a lete. The boke teachynge to kepe a courte hundred. The boke called returna breuium. The boke called carta feodi, conteynynge the forme of dedes, releasses, indentures, obligacions, acquitaunces, letters of atturney, letters of permutacion, testamentes, and other thynges. And the boke of the ordinaunce to be obserued by the offycers of the Kynges Escheker for fees takinge. Wherevnto is added the boke called articuli ad narratio[n]es nouas, [and] the diuersitie of courts.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Fitzherbert, Anthony, 1470-1538, attributed name.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 572:13.

Standardized Title:

Boke of justices of peas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justices of the peace--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Justices of the peace.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

234 leaves, 13 unnumbered leaves

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[Imprinted at London]: [In fletestrete vvithin Temple barre, at the signe of the hande & starre, by Richard Tottle], the xiii. daye of Maye. An. 1556.] [1556]

Notes:

One of several configurations of the work originally entitled "The boke of justices of peas".

Sometimes wrongly attributed to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert.

Imprint from colophon.

With an index.

With a final colophon leaf.

Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University. Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1954. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 572:13). s1954 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 14881.

Putnam, B. H., 'Early treatises on the practice of the justices of the peace', Oxford, 1924

OCLC:

55160998