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 : 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.
| Author/creator | Wentworth, Thomas |
| Other author | Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690. |
| Other author | Doddridge, John, Sir, 1555-1628, attributed name. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For Henry Twyford and John Place at Furnivals-Inn-Gate, 1689. |
| Description | [24], 373, [5], 69, [1] p. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248509594 |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Office and duty of executors |
| Variant title | Treatise of wills and executors, directed to testators, in the choice of their executors, and contrivance of their wills. |
| Variant title | Appendix to the office and duty of an executor. |
| Variant title | Appenidx to the office and duty of an executor. |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | The A in "Atkins" in imprint is stamped over another letter, probably an E. |
| General note | The first leaf bears a permission to print. |
| General note | "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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Originally published anonymously, sometimes attributed to Sir John Doddridge (cf. DNB). |
| General note | Copy L lacks A1. |
| General note | Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and British Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) W1362A. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1981:12) |
| Stock number | CL0037000077 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |