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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 beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein 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 Pickring and Lancaster, by Iohn Manwood.

General note: Actual printer's name conjectured by STC. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio. Running title reads: A treatise of the forrest lawes. Includes index. Leaf Z8 is blank. Signatures: *-2*4 A-D4 E-Z8 2A4 2B². Contemporary MS. ink notes, especially at margins of the table at end UK-SuSCL Cited in: STC (2nd ed.), 17291 Beale, T413 Sweet Maxwell (1955), v. 1, p. 465, no. 38 Format of surrogate: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1946. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 287:5). Ownership and custodial history: Bookplate of Anthony Gregory Esq. of Stivichall, Coventry, pasted on inside front cover UK-SuSCL Binding Information: Bound in gilded red morocco, gilt edges UK-SuSCL