A collection of entrees, of declarations, barres, replications, reioinders, issues, verdits, iudgements, executions, proces, continuances, essoines, & diuers other matters. ...
Subtitle: And first an epistle, with certaine instructions necessarie to bee redde for the redy finding of the matters in thys booke
Contributors: Yetsweirt, Jane, printer; Islip, Adam, -1639, attributed name; Fenwick, George, 1603?-1657, former owner; Waymouth, John, former owner; Gurley, John Ward, 1778-1808, former owner; Livermore, Edward St. Loe, 1762-1832, former owner; Smith, Jeremiah, 1759-1842, former owner; Smith, Jeremiah, 1837-1921, former owner; Wambaugh, Eugene, 1856-1940, former owner; Ess, Henry N. (Henry Newton), 1921-2000, former owner
Edition: Newly amended, and much enlarged with many good presidents of latter time: whereof diuers are vpon diuers statutes, as is noted in the end of the table. The new presidents onely throughout the booke, as also their titles in the table, have this mark [pointing hand] set before them.
Publisher: In aedibus Iane Yetsweirt relictae Caroli Yetsweirt ar. nuper defuncti.
Published: 1596
Place of publication: London
Language: lat; roa; eng
Number of pages: 704
Notes: Compiled by William Rastell and published posthumously; his preface, beginning on [par.]2 recto, dated 28 March 1564.

Title within a woodcut border (McKerrow, Borders, no. 147β; Devices, no. 168β), with the mermaid (Henry Bynneman's sign) cut away.

On title page, edition statement precedes final line.

"Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis." --title page, at foot of imprint.

Date of imprint from '1596' in upper compartment of title page border.

STC (2nd ed.) v.2 incorrectly identifies Adam Islip as a possible printer --cf. v.3.

Collation: [par.]⁴ A-4T⁸ [$4 signed]

Errors in foliation: leaf 233 printed 232; leaf 528 not numbered.

Text in two columns.

Running headings within ruled borders.

In predominantly black letter type; some Roman and italic type.

Initials.

Side notes.

STC (2nd ed.) 20732

Beale, J.H. Engl. law T450

Text in Latin and Law French; preface in English.