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A treatise and discovrse 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 on 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, aswell of the forrest, as the puralley / collected and gathered together, aswell out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient authors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster, by Iohn Manwood.

Accession number
PML 38678
Creator
Manwood, John, -1610.
Published
London : Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598.
Notes
First ed.--(STC 17291).
Leaves 155-158 incorrectly numbered 162-165.
Printed on 167 double leaves.
The earliest treatise of English Forest Laws.
Title with ornamental border ; initials.
Description
167 leaves, [12] p. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Occasional underlining and marginal annotations.
Provenance
With the C.F.G.R. Schwerdt ex libris (his sale 11 March 1946 lot 1720).
Binding
Contemporary vellum.
Classification
Department