John. 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 pr

by MANWOOD

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MANWOOD, John. 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 … neuer heretofore printed for the publique. London: Printed [by Adam Islip?] for the Societie of Stationers. 1615. 4to. Contemporary full brown calf, triple blind fillet to sides, sometime rebacked, spine with raised bands and red morocco gilt lettering piece, edges stained red, endpaper renewed; ff. [1 (blank)], [15], 258 [ i.e. 259], [1 (blank)], text printed in black letter, woodcut head-piece and initials; corners bumped, repaired tear without loss to p. 227, slight age-toning to margins, contemporary signature to title page with occasional manuscript notes in two hands throughout, very good. Second edition, the most notable, containing material from his privately circulated A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forrest (1592) that was not included in the first edition of 1598. Cited by Blackstone, this book was considered to be the most authoritative secondary source on forest law well into the twentieth century. Certainly it is a great work of scholarship as Manwood collated sources as disparate as Cnut's Civil Dooms and Henry III's Charter of the Forest. The law as described by Manwood is very much on the side of the landowner, primarily the Crown

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