Facsimile of Title page of Manwood’s celebrated volume.
(Original, the property of Mr. Joly de Lotbinière).
A
TREATISE OF THE
LAWES OF THE FO-
rest: Wherein is declared not onely
those Lawes, as they are now in force, but also the ori-
ginall and beginning of Forests: And what a Forest is in
his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth dif-
fer from a Chase, a Parke, or a Warren, with all such
things as are incident or belonging there into, with
their seuerall proper tearmes of Art.
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, how farre he may pursue and fol-
low after his chase, together with the limits and bounds, as
well of the Forest, as the Pourallee.
Collected, as well out of the Common Lawes and
Statutes of this land, As also out of sundrie learned auncient Au-
thors, and out of the Assises of Pickering and Lancaster,
by Iohn Manvvood.
Whereunto are added the Statutes of the Forest, a Trea-
tise of the seuerall offices of Verderors, Regardors, and Fore-
sters, & the Courts of Attachments, Swanimote, & Iustice seat
of the Forest, and certaine principall Cases, Iudgements,
and Entries of the Assises of Pickering and Lan-
caster: neuer heretofore printed for the publique
LONDON,
Printed for the Societie of Stationers,
Anno Dom. 1615.
Cum Priuilegio.
In Scotland the same usages and laws existed, only very much less rigorously enforced, until, in 1681, the extension of ‘forests’ was discontinued by parliamentary act.