Fyrste the booke for a iustice of peace : The booke that teacheth to keepe a court baron, or a lete. The booke teaching to kepe a court hundred The booke called returna breuium. The booke called charta feodi, conteininge the fourme of deedes, releases, indentures, obligacions, acquitaunces, letters of atturney, letters permutacion, testaments, [and] other thing[es]. And the booke of the ordinance to be obserued by the officers of the kinges Escheker for fees taking.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Fitzherbert, Anthony, 1470-1538, attributed name.

England and Wales.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 472:5.

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.

Procedure (Law).

Great Britain.

Procedure (Law)--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

195 leaves, 11 unnumbered leaves

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

[Imprinted at London] : [In Fletestrete within Temple Barre at the signe of the hand and Starre by Rycharde Tottel], [1569]

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. Colophon varies; "Tottyl" (Harvard University Library copy) or "Tottel" (British Library copy)--STC.

With an index and a final colophon leaf.

At head of title page: The contentes of this booke.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1951. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 472:05). s1951 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 14884.

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

OCLC:

55185198