A bride-bush. Or, A direction for married persons. Plainely describing the duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. By performing of which, marriage shall prooue a great helpe to such, as now for want of performing them, doe finde it a little hell. Compiled and published by William Whateley, minister and preacher of Gods Word, in Banbury in Oxford-shiere.

All titles

• A bride-bush. Or, A direction for married persons. Plainely describing the duties common to both, and peculiar to each of them. By performing of which, marriage shall prooue a great helpe to such, as now for want of performing them, doe finde it a little hell. Compiled and published by William Whateley, minister and preacher of Gods Word, in Banbury in Oxford-shiere.
• Bride-bush Direction for married persons

People / Organizations

• William Whately (Author)
• Bernard Alsop ("printed by")

Imprint

London: Printed by Bernard Alsop for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Rowe, at the signe of the Talbot, 1623.

Publication year

1623-1623

ESTC No.

S119431

Grub Street ID

139071

Description

[10], 220, [2] p. ; 4⁰

Note

An enlargement of "A bride-bush, or A wedding sermon" into a treatise.

Signatures: pi1(=[2G]2) A-E? 2F? [2G]?(-[2G]2).

The final leaf bears Whately's revocation of his opinion that adultery and desertion are grounds for divorce.

Variant: imprint has "Taulbut".