88 CIVIL, FEUDAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, [CH. IV. 8vo. 1613, 1705, and in the collection of the author's English works, published by Bp. Gibson, reprinted 30 years after by his son Mr. C. Spelman.

18. SPELMAN'S apology of the treatise de non temerandis ecclesiis, against a treatise by an unknown author, written against it in some particulars; also his epistles to Richard Carew, esq. concerning tithes, and preface, &c. to sir Francis Bigod's treatise of impropriations, 4to.

See also on this subject, Spelman on the right of tithes, Sect. VI. 1 s. 6d. No. 41-43, infra.

The work was supposed to be lost, but a copy of it was at length discovered among the MSS. given by Bishop Barlow to the Bodleian library. See Gibson's life of Spelman.

19. STAVELEY'S (Tho.) history of the churches in England; wherein is shown the time, means, and manner of founding, building, and endowing of churches, both cathedral and rural, with their furniture and appendages, 8vo. 1712, 3s. with improvements,

2d edit.

1773, 5 s.

20. TAXATIO omnium beneficiorum in Anglia tempore Ed. I. a fair antient MS. in the public library at Oxford, formerly belonging to sir Hen. Spelman. A further account may be seen in Gough's Top. Brit. v. i. 116. Another Taxatio is also in the Harleian library; where is also a list of all the churches in England, their valuation in the king's books, and tenths, by Le Neve, who designed to add the patrons and epitaphs in eight books, No. 3617-24.

21. TAXATIO ecclesiastica Ang. et Wall. See Public Records, Chap. VII. Sect. IV.

22. ECTON'S (J.) Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum; being an account of the valuations of all the ecclesiastical benefices in England and Wales, as they now stand charged with, or lately were discharged from, the payment of first fruits and tenths; to which are added, the names of the patrons, and the dedications of the churches; with an account of procurations and synodals, extracted from the records in the time of Hen. VIII. with directions and precedents relating to presentation, institution, induction, dispensations, &c. 4to. 1742, 1754, 10s. 6 d. This is a republication and enlargement of the book before mentioned, intitled Liber Valorum, &c. See No. 13, ante.

A further edition of this work was published, wherein the appropriations, dedications, and patronages of churches have been revised, corrected, and placed in regular order, under their respective archdeaconries, by Brown Willis, 4to. 1763, 108.

A still further improved work of this kind was published, intitled Liber Regis, &c. See No. 1, ante.

123. VALUATIONS. (1) A book of the valuations of all the

ecclesiastical preferments in England and Wales, intitled Nomina et valores, omnium et singulorum archiepiscopatuum, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1680.

This having been surreptitiously and incorrectly printed, a new edition was published, intitled,

23. (2) VALOR Beneficiorum: or, a valuation of all ecclesiastical preferments in England and Wales; with a collection of choice precedents relating to ecclesiastical affairs, 1695, 12mo.

These two contain the benefices in Calais, and the earldom of Guisnes. Mr. Tho. Rawlinson had a MS. valuation differing from both these, and never printed.

24. WILLIS'S (Dr. B.) account of appropriations, dedications, patronages, &c. See No. 22, ante.

SECT. IV.

INTESTACY, Administration, Wills, Executors.

1. ASSHETON, (Wm.) a theological discourse of last wills and testaments, 12mo.

1696, 1 s. 6 d.

2. BIRD'S (J. B.) law respecting wills, testaments, and codicils, 6th edit. (see p. 11.) 1817, 3 s. 6d.

3. EXECUTORS. (1) Law of executors and administrators. Being directions for the management of their office and duty; of probates of wills, and of codicils, of executors de son tort, of joint executors, executor of executor, of administrations committed, how, and by whom, and to whom; of bona notabilia, and pleadings, &c. 8vo. 1702, 48.

: 3. (2) Office and dutie of executors, seeWentworth, post, No. 27. 4. GILBERT'S (L. C. B.) law of devises, last wills, and revocations. To which is added, choice precedents of last wills, gd edit. revised, corrected, and improved, 8vo. 1773, 5 s. Gilbert's law of devises, 1730, 1739, 2 s. 1756, 3 s. 5. GODOLPHIN's (John) orphan's legacy, a testamentary abridgment in three parts. 1. Of last wills and testaments. 2. Of executors and administrators. 3. Of legacies and devises. Illustrated with a variety of cases in the law of both professions, &c. The fourth edition, 4to.

1701, 6s. Godolphin's legacy, 1674, 2s. 2d or 3d edit. the same as the 4th, 4to. 1677, 1685, 45.

6. HARTLAND's table of the distribution of an intestate's personal estate, illustrating at one view the respective claimants, the proportions they take, and the several law authorities in support of such case: together with the right of admi

nistration, a table of the degree of consanguinity, and the customs of London and York, on a broad sheet,

1798, 63. 7. HIGHMORE'S (A.) arrangement of the accounts necessary to be kept by executors and administrators, 8vo. 1816, 6s. 6d. bds. 8. LOVELASS'S (Pet.) law's disposal of a person's estate who dies without will or testament; showing how a man's family or relations will be entitled to his estate, by the laws of England, and customs of the city of London and York. To which is added, the disposal of a person's estate by will and testament, containing an explanation of the mortmain act, with instructions and necessary forms; and directions for executors how to act after the testator's death, &c. tenth edition, 1809, 9s. boards. The first edit. of this work was published in 1785, under the title of "The Will which the law makes."

9. MERITON'S (Geo.) touchstone of wills, testaments, and administrations. Being a compendium of cases and resolutions touching the same, 12mo. 1668, 1671, 1674, 1 s. 6 d.

10. NELSON'S (Will.) lex testamentaria, or a compendious system of all the laws of England, as well before the statute of Hen. VIII. as since, concerning last wills and testaments. The 2d edit. with many corrections, &c. 8vo. 1724, or 1728,3 s. Nelson's lex testam. 8vo.

1714, 2 s.

11. Or last wills and testaments, a common-law treatise ; containing several rules for the construction of last wills, and the diversities between limitations and conditions in a will. Of contingent remainders and executory devises; and of revocations, codicils, and nuncupative wills, 8vo. 1703, 3s.

12. NICOLL'S (S. W.) brief exposition of the laws relative to wills and testaments: with an abstract of the 36 Geo. III. c. 52, 1796, 3 s. 6d.

13. PROVISIONS of the acts 36 and 45 Geo. III. for assessing and collecting duties on legacies, &c. imposed by 48 Geo. III. illustrated by a will and codicil, containing the different bequests for which the act provides; with explanatory remarks on the several sections, as they apply to the respective bequests, &c, &c. (Published by the stamp office.)

14. PARKER'S (Edw.) chart or table of distribution of intestate estates, engraved on a large copper-plate, calculated to show at one view, by a selection of all the principal or ruling cases, the manner in which an intestate's personal estate becomes distributable, as well generally as by the particular customs of London and York; the proportions in which distribution must be made, to whom administration belongs, &c. 3d edit. -much enlarged,

6 s.

15. RICHARDSON's (Rob.) law of testaments and last wills; containing all that is necessary to be known and practised by

Also what

testators and their executors, administrators, &c. relates to the distribution of intestates estates, 2d edit. with improvements, 8vo. (1744, 25.) 1769, 4s.

16. ROBERTS'S (Wm.) treatise on wills and codicils, with an appendix of statutes, and a copious collection of precedents, with notes, &c. 2 vols. royal 8vo. 1815, 1l. 18s. bourds, 1809, 15 s. 17. ROPER'S (R. S. D.) treatise upon the law of legacies. 2d edit. much enlarged, 2 vols. 8vo. 1805, 1. 1s. boards. Roper on legacies, first edition, 8vo.

1799.

In 13 Ves. 485, Ld. Eldon says, this is a very useful work. 18. ROPER (R. S. D.) on revocations and republications of wills and testaments, together with tracts upon the law of baron and feme, including courtesy, dower, jointure, leases, settlements, separation, &c. 8vo. 1800, 5s. boards.

19. SELDEN's two treatises. 1. Of the original of ecclesiastical jurisdiction of testaments. 2. Of the disposition or administration of intestates goods. See Selden's tracts, Ch. XIV. post, (and in his works.)

20. SPELMAN on the origin of testaments and wills, and of their probate. See Spelmanni Reliquiæ, Ch. XIV. post. 21. SPELMAN (sir H.) de sepultura, 4to.

1641, 3s.

22. SWINBURNE's (Hen.) treatise of testaments and last wills, compiled out of the laws ecclesiastical, civil, and canon, as alsó out of the common laws, customs, and statutes of this reahn, in seven parts; 1. What a testament and last will is. 2. What persons may make a testament. 3. Describing what things may be disposed of by will. 4. In what manner testaments and last wills are to be made. 5. What person may be executor, or is capable of a legacy. 6. The office of an executor. 7. Showing by what means wills become void. The seventh edition, with the valuable annotations of the late John Joseph Powell, esq. barrister at law. Prepared for the press by James Wake, esq. 3 vots. 8vo. 1803, 1l. 14s. boards.

Mr. Hargrave observes, in note on Coke upon Littleton, 176, b. n. 5, There is a curious dissertation on the customs of York, in respect to filial portions, which forms a valuable part of the work, but which is not contained in the first edition, having been afterwards added by Swinburne; he at the same time observes, that it is otherwise as to many additions in the latter editions of his book; these being full of enlargements coming from other hands, but printed without discriminating them from Swinburne's own Work.

Mr. Powell's seventh edition is an exception to the above remark ; the text of Swinburne, and Mr. Powell's annotations, being printed distinct from each other.

23. SWINBURNE's treatise of testam, and last wills, 6th edit. 1743, fol. 158. 5th edit. fol. 1728, 10%

SWINBURNE ON wills, &c. 4to. 1590, 1611, 1635, 38. 1640, 1677, 5 s.

24. TOLLER'S (Sam.) law of executors and administrators, 3d edit. 1814, 15 s. boards, 2d edit. 1806, 1st edit. 1800.

25. TOMLINS'S (T. E.) familiar explanation of the law of wills, the law of descent and distribution in case no will is made, and the office and duty of executors and administrators, with forms of wills and other practical instructions, new edition, 8vo. 1810, 3s. 6d. sewed. 26. VESEY'S (F.) case upon the will of the late Peter Thellusson, esq. with the arguments of counsel fully stated, and the decision of the high court of chancery, 4to. 1799, 5 s.

27. WENTWORTH'S (Tho.) office and dutie 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, &c. with divers other particulars very useful, &c. in two parts, 4to. 1641, 2 s. 2d edit. 12mo. 1641. 3d edit. corrected and enlarged, (but apparently only a new title) 1641, and now first said to be compiled, &c. by Tho. Wentworth, late bencher of Lincoln'sinn, 4th edit. 1656; again pr. 1663, 1668, 1672, 1 s. 6d.; again, with appendix, by T. M. (Thomas Manley) 1676, 1689, 2 s. (the edit. referred to by Comyns); again, with a supplement by H. Curson, 8vo. 1703, 1720, 1728, 3s. with addition of many hundred references, and revised by a gentleman of the Inner Temple, 8vo. 1762, 5 s.; again by serj. Wilson, 8vo. 1774, 6 s.

28. WENTWORTH's executor, revised with further additions, and all the new cases, by Henry Jeremy, esq. barrister at law, 8vo. 1819.

This treatise, which is of great repute and authority, is by several authors ascribed to Judge Dodderidge, and accordingly so quoted by Buller, J. 4 T. R. 639.

See Skinner 565, where it is said, in B. R. M. 6 W. and M. P. Cur. this is a good book.' Shower's Parl. Cases, 147, Judge Jenkins's answer, &c. p. 184, of his works, 12mo. 1648. Viner, v. xi. p. 101.

It is observable, that the two first editions were printed the same year without any author's name, and that the first consisted of two distinct parts; from which circumstance it appears to be the book often quoted in the margin of the Touchstone, (first published 1641, the same year as the office of executors) by title of Judge Dodderidge's treatise, and additions to Judge Dodderidge's treatise. It is further remarkable, that though this work contains a considerable number of original cases, determined in the latter end of the reign of Q. Eliz. and in that of Jac. I. there is no case or autho