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A treatise of the lawes of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forests : and what a forest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a parke, or a warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art : also a Treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee man may do, how he may hunt and vse his owne pourallee, how farre he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the limits and bounds, as well of the forest, as the pourallee : collected, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundrie learned auncient authors, and out of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster
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Treatise of the lawes of the forest
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A treatise of the lawes of the forest : wherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forests : and what a forest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a parke, or a warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art : also a Treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee man may do, how he may hunt and vse his owne pourallee, how farre he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the limits and bounds, as well of the forest, as the pourallee : collected, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundrie learned auncient authors, and out of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster / by Iohn Manvvood ...
Published
London : Printed for the Societie of Stationers, Anno Dom. 1615.
Physical Description
[16], 258 [i.e. 259], [1] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Local Notes
BEIN Uze96 G6 615m: Imperfect: Leaf 2K4 (blank) wanting. Autograph: Revd. J. Compton, Minstead, Lyndhurst. Presentation inscription: Thomae Gibbard e dono Thomae White armiger, 1792. Binder's ticket: Broadbere, Southampton.
BEIN 1976 1966: Imperfect: [par.]1 and 2K4 (both blank) wanting.
Notes
Signatures: [par.]⁸ [star]⁸ A-2I⁸ 2K⁴ ([par.]1 and 2K4 blank).
Leaves 258 and 259 misnumbered 237 and 258.
An enlarged edition of "A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest", incorporating much material from his "A brefe collection of the lawes of the forest".
The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.
Title continued: ... whereunto are added the statutes of the forest, a treatise of the seuerall offices of verderors, regardors, and foresters, & the courts of attachments, swanimote, & iustice seat of the forest, and certaine principall cases, iudgements, and entries of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster : neuer heretofore printed for the publique.
Variant and related titles
Treatise of the forest lawes
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Language
English; Latin
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 17292
English short title catalogue, S111855
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Genre/Form
Binders' tickets (Binding) - Broadbere.
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Great Britain. Laws, etc.
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