The country-mans counsellour, or, Every man made his own lawyer. Plainly shewing the nature, and offices of all courts as Kings bench, common pleas, chancery, exchequer, marshalsey, &c. VVith the just feas for all vvrits & proceedings in each court; allowed and established by act of Parliament. As also how to sue a man to the out-lawry, or to reverse the same: to pass a fine'er recovery, to sue an attorney or clerk, to get an injunctionin chanciry to stop your advercsaries proceedings at law, to sue in forma pauperis, &c. VVith approved presidents, and easie directions for all persons, how to make according to law, bonds, bills, acquittances, general releases, letters of attorney, bills of sale, vvills, &c. work most useful to all persons, the like not extant, and now published for a general good. With allowance / by H. R.

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The country-mans counsellour, or, Every man made his own lawyer. Plainly shewing the nature, and offices of all courts as Kings bench, common pleas, chancery, exchequer, marshalsey, &c. VVith the just feas for all vvrits & proceedings in each court; allowed and established by act of Parliament. As also how to sue a man to the out-lawry, or to reverse the same: to pass a fine'er recovery, to sue an attorney or clerk, to get an injunctionin chanciry to stop your advercsaries proceedings at law, to sue in forma pauperis, &c. VVith approved presidents, and easie directions for all persons, how to make according to law, bonds, bills, acquittances, general releases, letters of attorney, bills of sale, vvills, &c. work most useful to all persons, the like not extant, and now published for a general good. With allowance / by H. R.
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H. R.
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[London] :: Printed for J. Clarke at the Bible and Harp near the hospital gate in West-smith-Field,
[1682]
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"The country-mans counsellour, or, Every man made his own lawyer. Plainly shewing the nature, and offices of all courts as Kings bench, common pleas, chancery, exchequer, marshalsey, &c. VVith the just feas for all vvrits & proceedings in each court; allowed and established by act of Parliament. As also how to sue a man to the out-lawry, or to reverse the same: to pass a fine'er recovery, to sue an attorney or clerk, to get an injunctionin chanciry to stop your advercsaries proceedings at law, to sue in forma pauperis, &c. VVith approved presidents, and easie directions for all persons, how to make according to law, bonds, bills, acquittances, general releases, letters of attorney, bills of sale, vvills, &c. work most useful to all persons, the like not extant, and now published for a general good. With allowance / by H. R." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B09828.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2024.

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The form of a Will.

IN the Name of God: Amen. I Simon Sud∣bery of &c. Being sick of body, but in sound and disposing memory, praise be given to God for the same; do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following: that is to say: first and principally I resign my Soul into the merci∣ful hands of Almighty God my Creator, assured∣ly hoping through the merits of my blessed Sa∣viour, to obtain Remission of all my sins: and my Body I commit to the earth whence it was taken, to be decently buried by the discretion of my Executrix herein after named: and as for the worldly goods and estate the Lord hath lent me, I dispose thereof as follows. Imprimis, I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Sudbery, all those my Lands and Tenements at Bocking: To have and to hold to her and her heirs for ever. Item, I give and bequeath to my Couzin N.. the Summ of Fifty pounds, to be paid within six months afte my decease: (And so name your several Legacies, and then conclude thus:) and all the rest and residue of my Estate, Goods, and Chattels, not herein before bequeathed, af∣ter my Debts and Funeral Expences discharged

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I do give and bequeath unto my dear and loving Wife Dorothy Sudbery, whom I do make sole Ex∣ecutrix of this my last VVill and Testament: Re∣voking all other VVills by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this 26th. day of &c.

Signed, sealed, and Published, in the presence of _____ _____

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