Swinburne, Henry. A Treatise of Spousals, or Matrimonial Contracts: Wherein all the Questions Relating to that Subject are Ingeniously Debated and Resolved. London: Printed by S. Roycroft for Robert Clavell, 1686. [xvi], 240 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-288-3. Cloth. $125. Reprint of the first edition. Published posthumously, this was the first English ecclesiastical law treatise devoted to marriage, the relationship between spousal contracts and marriage contracts, the dissolution of those contracts and divorce. Swinburne [1560?-1623] was commissary of the exchequer and judge of the consistatory court at York.