A true description of the lavves, iustice, and equity of a compter, the manner of sitting in counsell of the twelue eldest prisoners : With a character of a iayle and iaylor, and the dispositions of such officers as liue in it: the nature of a constable: as also the abuses, offered by beadles and watchmen, that vnderstand not their office. And also a description of a sergeant his nature, slights, and properties, and in what fashions they oftentimes apparell themselues. Together with a portraicture of our moderne-spent gallants, and their trickes to catch young heires with their lewd and vitious course of life.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Fennor, William.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 794:6.

Standardized Title:

Compters common-wealth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt, Imprisonment for--England--Early works to 1800.

Debt, Imprisonment for.

London (England)--Social life and customs--17th century.

England.

Local Subjects:

London (England)--Social life and customs--17th century.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 85 pages, 1 unnumbered page

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Compters common-wealth

True description of the lawes justice, and equity of a compter, the manner of sitting in counsell of the twelve eldest prisoners.

Place of Publication:

London : [publisher not identified], Printed 1629.

Notes:

Describes his experience as a prisoner for debt.

Another issue, with cancel dedication and title page, of: The compters common-wealth.

Heading on B1r signed: The penner William Fennor.

Identified as STC 10786 on UMI microfilm.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1959. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 794:06). s1959 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 10786.

OCLC:

55177912