The office and duty of executors: or, A treatise of wills and executors, directed to testators, in the choice of their executors, and contrivance of their wills
Subtitle: With direction for executors in the execution of their office according to the law; and for creditors in the recovery of their debts. With divers other particulars, very useful and profitable for all persons, be they either executors, creditors or debtors. Compiled out of the body of the common-law, by Thomas Wentworth, late bencher of Lincolns Inn. To which is added an appendix, wherein are the nature of testaments, executors, legataries general, and divers other very material things relating to the same, shortly methodized for the use of persons concerned. By T.M. Esquire
Contributors: Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690; Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628, attributed name
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1981:12
Publisher: printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Henry Twyford and John Place at Furnivals-Inn-Gate
Published: 1689
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Wills -- England -- Early works to 1800; Executors and administrators -- England -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Office and duty of executors; Treatise of wills and executors, directed to testators, in the choice of their executors, and contrivance of their wills; Appendix to the office and duty of an executor; Appenidx to the office and duty of an executor
Notes: The A in "Atkins" in imprint is stamped over another letter, probably an E

The first leaf bears a permission to print

"An appenidx [sic] to the office and duty of an executor: .. By Thomas Manley" has separate pagination and title page dated 1688; register is continuous

Includes index

Originally published anonymously, sometimes attributed to Sir John Doddridge (cf. DNB)

Copy L lacks A1

Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and British Library

Wing (2nd ed.) W1362A

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1989. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1981:12).