A treatise of the lavves of the forest: vvherein is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forests: and what a forest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a parke, or a warren ... Also a treatise of the pourallee, declaring what pourallee is, how the same first began, what a pourallee man may do, how he may hunt and vse his owne pourallee ... Collected, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundrie learned auncient authors, and out of the assises of Pickering and Lancaster, by Iohn Manvvood. Whereunto are added the statutes of the forest, a treatise of the seuerall offices of verderors, regardors, and foresters ... neuer heretofore printed for the publique.
John Manwood (d.1610)
Category
Books
Date
1615
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127027
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],258 [i.e. 259],[1] leaves . 4to.. Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clipping from dealer's catalogue, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century inscription on title page: John Board. Late nineteenth-century (?) armorial bookplate lettered Stonor, with baron's coronet. (Not found in Franks) [Stonor family, of Stonor Park, Oxfordshire]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on pastedown in Norris's hand: Stonor Park 1939. ú1/11/0. S. [Sotheby's] 3/8 '39. Lot 251. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf over boards; blind fillets to form a border; blind spine fillets; sewn on four raised bands.
Makers and roles
John Manwood (d.1610)