A dialogue between a lawyer and a country gentleman upon the subject of the game laws relative to hares, partridges, and pheasants
Subtitle: wherein is shewn the several qualifications to kill game, the penalties such persons are liable to who kill them without such qualifications, the manner of recovering such penalties, the difference between being subject to the penalties and being punished as trespassers, the distinction between voluntary and involuntary trespassers ... : together with some observations upon these laws : to which are added three tables ... : with a letter to John Glynn, Esq., serjeant at law and representative of the county of Middlesex, upon the penal laws of this country
By: by a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex.
Contributors: Purlewent, S.
Publisher: Printed for J. Wilkie ... and P. Uriel ...
Published: 1771
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Game-laws -- Great Britain.
Notes: The author is identified in Sweet & Maxwell as John Purlevent. That identification is supported against BLC's identification of him as Samuel Purlewent by evidence in Purlevent's Two law tracts, 1786.
The 3 tables mentioned on the t.p. are on 3 folded sheets inserted following the final leaf, which explains the tables.
Signatures:A-C⁸ D⁴.