The laws concerning game. : Of hunting, hawking, fishing and fowling, &c. And of forests, chases, parks, warrens, deer, doves, dove-cotes, conies: and also of setting-dogs, grey-hounds, lurchers, nets, tunnels, lowbels, guns, and all manner of engines and instruments mentioned in the several statutes to destroy the game; shewing who are qualified by law to keep and use them, and the punishments of those who keep them, not being qualified. Likewise the proper seasons allowed by Act of Parliament for hunting, fishing and fowling. Together with the forest laws: shewing the method of chusing, and oaths of the respective officers; and the authority, power and duty of Chief Justice in Eyre, clerks of the peace, constables, foresters, game-keepers, justices of peace, keepers, lords of manors, parkers, rangers, regarders, sheriffs, stewards of forest courts, stewards of leets, verderors, wardens and woodwards. / By William Nelson of the Middle-Temple, Esq; To which are now added, English forms of convictions, declarations, indictments, justifications, licences, mittimus's, pleas, warrants, &c. Digested under proper titles, in an alphabetical order.
William Nelson (b.1653)
Category
Books
Date
1751
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3212233
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xvii, [1], 255, [37] p. ; 12mo. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on verso of upper board and front pastedown, variously: "Tom", "TWC", "Tom Cremer", "Tom Cremer 1841", and "Tom Cremer 1843" [i.e. all ownership marks of Thomas Wyndham Cremer (1834-1894)]. Manuscript lettering on fore-edge: "TWC". Capital letter "R" written in pencil on front free endpaper. Manuscript letters (bookseller's codes?) on second front free endpaper. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; blind double fillet to form a border; blind rolled along joint edge; sewn onto five raised bands; brown spine label: 'Game Law'; blind edge rolled.
Makers and roles
William Nelson (b.1653)