The laws of England concerning the game, of hunting, hawking, fishing, and fowling, &c., and of forests, chases, parks, warrens, deer, doves, dove-cotes, conies, and all other game in general
Subtitle: and also concerning setting-dogs, grey-hounds, lurchers, nets, tunnels, lowbels, guns, and all manner of engines and instruments mentioned in the several statutes to destroy the game, shewing who are qualified by law to keep and use them, and the punishments of those who keep them, not being qualified : likewise, the proper seasons allowed by act of Parliament for hunting, fishing, and fowling : the whole being a compleat collection of all the statute-law concerning the game, and of all the cases, resolutions, and judgments in the several courts of record at Westminster relating thereunto : together with the nature of and proceedings in the several courts belonging to a forest : the method of chusing and oaths of the respective officers, and the authority, power, and duty of chief justice in eyre, clerks of the peace, constables, foresters, game-keepers, justices of peace, keepers, lords of manors, parkers, rangers, regarders, sheriffs, stewards of forest courts, stewards of leets, verderors, wardens, and woodwards
By: by William Nelson ... ; to which are now added (never before printed) English forms of convictions, declarations, indictments, justifications, licences, mittimus's, pleas, warrants, &c. ; digested under proper titles in an alphabetical order
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The third edition, with large additions.
Publisher: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq.) for Ward and Chandler, and sold by Edward Withers ...
Published: 1736
Place of publication: In the Savoy [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Game-laws; Early works to 1800; Fishery law and legislation
Notes: Signatures: A⁸ B-M¹² N⁶ O⁴(-O4).

Includes index.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, entry 1997

English short title catalogue, entry T82612

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his intial at signature I. With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.