A treatise of the laws of the forest
Subtitle: wherein is declared not only those laws, as they are now in force, but also the original and beginning of forests, and what a forest is in its own proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park or a warren, with all such things as are incident or belonging thereunto, with the several proper terms of art : also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pouralee-man may do, how he may hunt and use his own pourallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase : together with the limits and bounds, as well of the forest, as the pourallee
By: collected, as well out of the common laws and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned ancient authors, and out of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster, by John Manwood ; whereunto are added the statutes of the forest, a treatise of the several offices of verderors, regardors and forestors, and the courts of attachments, swanimote, and justice-seat of the forest, and certain principal cases, judgments, and entries of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster ; never heretofore printed for the publique
Contributors: England and Wales.
Edition: The third edition, corrected and much enlarged
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 745:1
Publisher: Printed for the Company of Stationers
Published: 1665
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Forestry law and legislation -- England; Game laws -- England
Other titles: Charta de foresta; A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest
Work titles: Treatise of the lawes of the forest
Notes: First published 1598 under title: A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest. "The edit. 1598, consists but of 20 chapters, those of 1615 and 1665, of 25, being differently paged, and to which latter also are prefixed the charter of Chanute, and statutes relating to the forest." Cf. J. Clarke. Bibliotheca legum

Caption title p. 1: Charta de foresta, of King Canutus, a Dane, and a king of this realm, granted at a Parliament holden at Winchester, in the year of Our Lord 1016

Includes bibliographical references

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library

Wing M554

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1977. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 745:1)

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