The office and duty of executors
Subtitle: or, A treatise of wills and executors, directed to testators, in the choice of the executors, and contrivance of their wills. With the direction for execucors in the execution of their office according to the law ... be they either executors, creditors, or debtors
By: compiled out of the body of the common law, by Thomas Wentworth ...
Contributors: Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628, supposed author; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library)
Publisher: Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford ...
Published: 1668
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Other titles: Treatise of wills and executors
Notes: Printed marginalia.

John Adams Library copy: minor annotations.

Originally published anonymously. Sometimes also attributed to Sir John Doddridge --cf. DNB. Republished in 1656 with Thomas Wentworth as compiler on t.p.

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams Library copy inscribed on first leaf: "Rick Haley ... bought 7 of June 1672 ..."

John Adams Library copy inscribed on t.p.: "?... Quincy 1760 ..." and another signature which has been crossed out.

John Adams Library copy inscribed on verso facing t.p. "Gifted in Danvers ..."

John Adams' signature on title page: "John Adams."

ESTC, R232343

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), W1361A

Also available on microfilm. Ann Arbor, MI : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2522:11).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.