Les termes de la ley: . or certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common law and statutes of this realme now in use expounded and explained. Now newly imprinted, and much enlarged and augmented. With a new addition of many hundred words.
John Rastell (d.1536)
Category
Books
Date
1642
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3019906
Summary
Bibliographic description
[5],59,59-122,139-289 [i.e.290] leaves. . 8vo. 17th-cent. MS scribbles on end flyleaf and pastedowns. Provenance: Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests), perhaps obscuring a signature. Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 1. Binding: Calf, double rules (seventeenth-century); front joint cracked. Spine lettered: Tearmes of: the law.
Makers and roles
John Rastell (d.1536) William Rastell (1508-1565)