Matrimonial Law.- Swinburne (Henry) A Treatise of Spousals or Matrimonial Contracts, first edition, contemporary ink signature of J. Agar on title and with a few manuscript notes to front free endpaper, title lightly soiled, engraved bookplate of Rev. L.W. Hepenstal AM, contemporary panelled calf, a little worn and stained, joints split, [Wing S6260], 4to, by S.Roycroft for Robert Clavell, 1686.

⁂ Henry Swinburne (c.1551-1624) was a noted ecclesiastical lawyer whose first work, A Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills of 1591, was the first work of canon law to be published in English. This second work, on matrimonial law, was the first part of a projected four-part work to include further parts on marriage, divorce, and bastardy, and was published posthumously.