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An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure wordes, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly amended and augmented, both in French and English, for the helpe of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same.

Accession number
PML 151552
Creator
Rastell, John, -1536.
Published
At London : Printed by Thomas Wight & Bonham Norton, 1598.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Lettered on binding: Tearmes of ẙ Lawe.
Originally composed in French, 1527, with a Latin title: Expositiones terminorũ legum anglorũ ... Pub. in French and English in 1567 with the title: Exposicions of the termes of the lawes of England ... Later French and English editions appeared under titles: An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words ... and Les termes de la ley ..
English and French in parallel columns.
Authorship and translation ascribed variously to John and William Rastell.
At foot of t.p.: Cum priuilegio regiae maiestatis.
Description
4 p.l., 198 leaves ; 15 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary binding.
Classification
Department