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
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3204866
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],258 [i.e. 259],[1] leaves. 4to. Old shelfmark[?] on t.p.: "r/8f". Provenance: Inscribed on t.p. in 18th-century[?] hand: "Langford Collin" [not identified]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full sheep, gilt fillet forming a panel with small thistle corner-pieces, sewn on four semi-recessed taws, reinforced with parchment comb. Gilt tooling on board edges. Remains of green ties on fore-edge. Edges dyed blue. Some insect damage to paper and leather. Spine damaged; external upper joint broken.
Makers and roles
John Manwood (d.1610), author