A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvils : very profitable to be understood 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 work, as for the easinesse of the style and method. Compiled of such lawes ecclesiasticall and civill, as be not repugnant to the lawes, customes, or statutes of this realme, nor derogatorie to the prerogative royall. In which treatise also are inserted divers 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 prerogative court of Yorke. Newly corrected and augmented, with necessary tables.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wills.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages, 344, 215 pages, 33 unnumbered pages)

Other Title:

Briefe treatise of testaments and last willes

Briefe treatise of testaments and last wils.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by I[ohn] L[egat, Felix Kingston, Richard Bishop and John Dawson] for the Company of Stationers, 1640.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Legat printed quires A-L; Kingston M-X; Bishop Y-Z, 2a, 2A-2F; Dawson 2G-2Q (STC).

"The fifth part of this testamentarie treatise" (caption title) begins new pagination on 2A1r.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Some print show-through and some pages stained.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1434:3) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

STC (2nd edition) 23551.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.