A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvils : very profitable to be vnderstood of all the subiects of this realme of England, (desirous to know, whether, whereof, and how, they may make their testaments: and by what meanes the same may be effected or hindered,) and no lesse acceptable, aswell for the rarenesse of the worke, as for the easinesse of the stile and method. Compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and ciuill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogatiue royall. In which treatise also are inserted diuers statutes of this land, together with mention of sundry customes, as well generall as particular; not impertinent thereto. By Henry Swinburne, sometime judge of the prerogatiue court of Yorke newly corrected and augmented, with necessary tables.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1190:6.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wills--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Wills.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages, 344, 215 pages, 33 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Briefe treatise of testaments and last willes

Briefe treatise of testaments and last wils.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby and Thomas Harper] for the Company of Stationers, 1635.

Notes:

Stansby printed quires A-Z, 2a; Harper printed 2A-2Q (STC).

"The first [i.e. fifth] part of this testamentarie treatise" (caption title) begins new pagination on 2A1r.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original in Harvard University. Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1969. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1190:6). s1969 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 23550.

OCLC:

55155397