A briefe treatise of testaments and last vvils
Subtitle: 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: By Henry Swinburne, sometime judge of the prerogative court of Yorke
Edition: Newly corrected and augmented, with necessary tables.
Publisher: Printed by I[ohn] L[egat, Felix Kingston, Richard Bishop and John Dawson] for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1640
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Wills; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Briefe treatise of testaments and last willes; Briefe treatise of testaments and last wils
Notes: Signatures: A⁴ B-Z⁸ 2a⁴ 2A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴.

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.

Full page woodcut (arms of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom the work is dedicated?) on A1v.

Includes index.

Some print show-through and some pages stained.

STC (2nd ed.), 23551

ESTC (RLIN), S118071

NUC pre-1956 NS 1103706 (vol. 579, p. 319)

LC copy inscription on front flyleaf: Samuel Ashe.