A treatise of the lawes of the forest
Subtitle: wherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forests ... : also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee man may do ...
By: collected, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundrie learned anncient authors, and out of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster by Iohn Manwood
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 434; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for the Societie of Stationers
Published: 1615
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Forestry law and legislation; Early works to 1800; Game laws
Other titles: Treatise of the laws of the forest.; Constitutiones Canuti regis de foresta. 1615.
Notes: Text in English and Latin.

"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."

"Cum priuilegio."

Consists of chapters from A briefe collection of the lawes of the forest (privately printed) and A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forest (1598), both by Manwood, rearranged, and with material from the first duplicated in the second omitted. Includes the Carta de foresta of King Canute (1016).

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00434.

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 434.

STC (2nd ed.) 17292.