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Ref NoEFP/094/A 094/1615/10
Finding NumberA094/1615/10
TitleA treatise of the lavves of the forest : vvherein 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, ... 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. ... 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. 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
LevelItem
Date1615
DescriptionTreatise of the lawes of the forrest; Treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest; Public General Acts. Selections: Forestry law; A brefe collection of the lawes of the forest; Public General Acts. Selections: Forestry law; Treatise of the forest lawes
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"; Printer's name conjectured by STC.; At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.; The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.; Running title reads: A treatise of the forest lawes.; Leaves 258 and 259 misnumbered 237 and 258.; Signatures: [par.][sup]8 *[sup]8 A-2I[sup]8 2K[sup]4.; Entered to the English Stock 5 March 1620.; -blanks; several pages bound up in wrong order; 55730.; Treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest.; Treatise of the forest lawes.; Microfilm.; ESTCS111855.
AuthorManwood, John, d. 1610
SubjectForestry law and legislation -- Great Britain; Game-laws -- Great Britain
Physical Description[16], 258 [i.e. 259], [1] leaves ; 4j.
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLondon : Printed [by Adam Islip?] for the Societie of Stationers, Anno Dom. 1615.
England and Wales
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