A briefe treatise of testaments and last willes : very profitable to be vnderstoode 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 delightfull, aswell for the rarenes of the worke, as for the easines 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 sundrie customes, aswell general as particular, not impertinent thereunto: besides diuers marginall notes, and quotations not to be neglected, especially of Iustinianists, or young students of the ciuil law: vvith two tables, the one analyticall ... the other alphabeticall ... By the industrie of Henrie Swinburn, Bachelar of the Ciuill Lawe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swinburne, Henry, 1560?-1623.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Wills.

Physical Description:

[12], 293, [14] leaves

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Iohn Windet, 1590 [i.e. 1591]

Summary:

eebo-0170

Notes:

Actual publication date from colophon.

The first leaf is blank.

With a slip-cancel on K5r line 19.

Includes index.

With a final errata leaf.

Reproduction of the original in the University of Michigan. Law Library.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 23547.