A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.
Alternate Title(s):
Treatise and discovrse of the lawes of the forrest
Published / Created:
At London : Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598.
Physical Description:
[8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Uze96 G6 598m: Armorial bookplate: David Wagstaff. Autographs: Henry Allen, 1639; Ffrances Allen, 1639.
Subject Terms:
Forestry law and legislation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Game laws -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Wagstaff, David, 1882-1951 -- Bookplate (BEIN) | Allen, Henry, fl. 1630-1639 -- Autograph (BEIN) | Allen, Frances, fl. 1630-1639 -- Autograph (BEIN) | Owen, George, of Godstow -- Provenance (BAC RB) | Conyngham, F., Lord -- Presentation inscription from M. Keane (BAC RB) | Keane, M. -- Presentation inscription to Lord F. Conyngham (BAC RB) | Macmath, William -- Autograph, 9th November 1897 (BAC RB)
Form/Genre:
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Woodcuts.
Contributors:
Norton, Bonham, 1565-1635, printer. | Wight, Thomas, d. 1608?, printer.