A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest: . wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginnings of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his own proper nature, and wherin 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 of 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 aucthors, and out of the assises and iters of Pickering and Lancaster, by Iohn Manwood.
John Manwood (d.1610)
Category
Books
Date
1598
Materials
Measurements
193 x 147 x 34 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Townend, Cumbria
NT 3074394
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],167,[7] leaves . 4to in 8s.. Two cuttings from auction/booksellers catalogues attached to front endpaper, referring to copies of this book (though not the Townend copy) with the original vellum cover, both priced 31s 6d.. Provenance: manuscript on front fly-leaf: "pret 0-4s-0"; manuscript on title page: "Geo: Browne", with one other inscription which has been scribbled out; manuscript marginal notes.. Binding: Early 17th century calf binding, with thin thick thin blind fillet border; blind diamond-shaped centrepiece stamp, with initials "BB" on either side; pair of holes for ties [missing] in both boards; spine has gilt stamp decoration; remnants of manuscript fore-edge title.
Makers and roles
John Manwood (d.1610)